We need energy & oil for mobility and our growing numbers of gadgets. The previous post gave an impression of the current energy system powering our society: The energy system is mainly based on fossil fuels coordinated by powerful central companies and governments. It leaves behind unwanted side products like greenhouse gasses or radioactive waste and is in [...]

Our whole society would collapse without electric power. We completely rely on our computers, phones, refrigerators, TV, lamps. It has changed our way of living completely. And it is strange to realise it only became mainstream since the mid 20th century… Growing numbers of power-gadgets Since the 50s waves and waves of new must-have gadgets [...]

House generally refers to a shelter or building that is a dwelling or place for habitation by human beings. The term includes many kinds of dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to high-rise apartment buildings. The social unit that lives in a house is known as a household. Most commonly, a household is a family unit of some kind, though households can be other social groups, such as single persons, or [...]

We are all a puzzle piece of a larger whole. A whole that keeps us alive and takes care of us as long as we contribute to it. It adapts to good and bad times as a completely dynamic system. This dynamic system is called society. A society is a population of humans characterized by patterns of relationships between individuals that share a [...]