Environment

The term environment creates a dangerous illusion. Other than the word nature - from Latin Natura, literally "that which gives birth" - the word environment suggests that somehow environment is an entity separate from and outside of us. For native Hawaiians the term "Aloha Aina", love for the living land, expresses an understanding for reality that we have long pushed aside: the fact that we are a part of that which we live from. Which we come from. This is not a romantic view of dreamers, but a simple fact. Everything that happens to nature ultimately comes back to us, too. There is no environment, because that, which is around us constantly passes through us, interacts with us. What we call environment is an immense conglomerate of interconnected feedback loops, and we are totally immersed in a sea of such loops, each of them working on each other and back on us as we change them. We are manipulating a system that we cannot control, that we do not even remotely understand in detail. The only long term survival strategy can be: Precaution. Care. Stewardship.


o Establishing a competence network for sustainable rural water and energy solutions in developing countries

o Developing technical training material for "Village Water Managers"


please see also "Research & Consulting" for more information.