Carticipate: Hitchhiking with your iPhone
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Travel, Trends & Marketing | 4 Comments »I used to be a hitchhiker of the old, adventurous style, thumbs up, and there we go. Since some years, you can book your carsharings and hitchhikes in Germany and Europe easily online. But getting a ride just by connecting ...
Atelier Sales at Eco Streetwear Label Slowmo
Saturday, September 27th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | 1 Comment »Slowmo is a cool, green streetwear label from Berlin Friedrichshain, and this weekend they have sales at their Atelier.The clothes are made from 100% organic cotton and produced locally in Berlin. Felicia Moss, the designer of the label, told me ...
Baacode: Meet the Sheep that Made Your Sweater
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Trends & Marketing | 1 Comment »No it's not the first of April and this is a serious thing. A New Zealand company called Icebreaker developed a tracking system called the Baacode to track back the farm where the wool of an individual sweater comes from. Every ...
First German Transition Town Initiative in Berlin
Monday, September 22nd, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Environment | 7 Comments »Stefa and Lars from Art-Ecology-Education just tipped me about the first German Transition Town initiative, that has started in Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. Transition Towns are a practical, bottom up answer to the question: how can our community respond to the challenges, ...
Green booktip: Sustainable Fashion & Textiles
Saturday, September 20th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Books, Fashion | 2 Comments »How to green up your lifestyle in only 10 minutes! Green your wardrobe! Go eco-sexy! Over the last year, quite a bunch of books on sustainable fashion and eco-chic ifestyle guides saw the light. Not all of go much further then ...
Meeting the Berlin Sustainability Scene
Friday, September 19th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Environment | 7 Comments »Yesterday evening I visited a campy meeting of the young, Berlin sustainability scene, which showed again how dynamic the new green movement is at the moment. The crowd, a mix of a young activists and green entrepreneurs, was stuffed on ...
Creative Activism Party in Berlin
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Berlin & Germany, Blog | 3 Comments »Just wanted to tip my Berlin readers to the release party of creative activism magazine Mašta: Mašta is a Berlin based global magazine for creative activists, "a collection of best practices of creative activism, where the mind of the artist merges ...