We choose to remain, as you say, relatively close to nature in our daily living. That being said, we also avail ourselves of advanced forms of technology, these are created and utilized in ways that are only symbiotic and synergistic to our planet and all of its life. Although one of our main physical power sources is light itself, we did in our ancient times make use of less advanced technology that relied mainly on forms of harnessing electromagnetism.
We did not have the phase of our own technology that made use of any natural resources which were non-sustainable, or non-renewable. In this regard we had some of the advantages of the technology of those that came before us, our so-called ancestors that had their roots in star systems other than our own.
Earlier on in our societal dev elopment we utilized small electromagnetic conveyance mechanisms to power what you would recognize as small transportation vehicles for the purposes of distributing goods and services. We also utilized an underground conveyance system that would deliver water, allow for the disposal of waste, and from time to time also accommodate the movement of goods and supplies.
The movement of goods and services in our past were also achieved by an underground electromagnetic shunting system. Another way that goods were distributed were upon floating platforms, a type of traveling marketplace if you will, that could be accessed by smaller aerial craft in the past, and more recently, by more modern smaller variations of our scoutcraft.
Because we are a hybridized species, we had a certain advanced starting point with our technological understanding. Therefore, we did not have the usual historical framework of the typical development of our technology including the more usual evolution of transportation. We did not have what you call the wheel, though from time to time did utilize small vehicles, always powered by small electromagnetic boosters.
We used similar electromagnetic technology to build small flying vessels, essentially more akin to what you call “gliders” than your larger aircraft. This was eventually completely replaced by our current technology.
We also had, and to some degree still can use, small aquatic ships. Originally these were mostly powered by the wind, though there was also the secondary propulsion system that was essentially powered by the electromagnetic conveyances and in some cases, the light of our central sun. In modern times, the sails have the dual ability to use the wind or the electromagnetic field of our planet itself.
Our present-day living quarters and other such physical structures, as well as our spacecraft, are made from an artificial renewable organic crystalline matrix material which has its own form of conscious awareness. While it is not technically sentient in and of itself, this material provides a conduit which acts as an extension of our own senses, being connected to both the outflow and inflow of our conscious energy.
This crystalline material is effectively “grown” on our planet, on certain orbital platform stations and on our Motherships, upon an energetic template of light-based energy which is highly connective and sympathetically responsive to our own conscious awareness, attention, and intention.
In this way, this material exhibits certain qualities in some ways similar to what you might call “living computers,” although the term “computer” is not really a very precise analog in the way humans understand computers. Instead, this material is more like extensions of our own conscious awareness, a type of artificially produced appendage, for lack of a better term.
As such we are tel-empathically linked to the matrix of this crystalline structure causing it to respond to changes in our attention and intention. This material can readily change and alter its shape to accommodate our needs. Therefore, structures may in their steady state appear plain and stark.
As the need arises for appurtenances like a chair, a table, or other such fixtures, they will exude from the substance of the crystalline material spontaneously. When we are finished using these structures, they naturally recede back into the substance of the main structure. This is true for both our domiciles, research facilities, meeting places, and our spacecraft.
We did originally have our version of what you call “bathrooms,” which consist of simple streams of water running through the various structures and facilities, which were directed to a form of holding tank. These receptacle tanks allowed the “waste” to be reprocessed into substances that were easily reabsorbed naturally back into the land.
Due to our present physical state of being, we no longer have the need for this equipment, and any remaining such areas are used by other extrasassanial species which may require this type of service facility.