Earth Hour: Largest Climate Action Ever
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Activism, Blog, Energy & Climate, Environment | 3 Comments »This Saturday the largest global climate change action ever will take place. 2,140 cities, towns and municipalities in 82 countries have already committed to VOTE EARTH for Earth Hour 2009, "as part of the worlds first global election between Earth ...
World Water Day: Is Blue The New Green?
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 Posted in Environment | 2 Comments »Today it's World Water Day. We all know how important water is for life. Still, the process of privatization of water resources and exploitation of precious water areas for commercial use are ongoing. Who owns and has access to water ...
Do You Design “Open” Already?
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Design | No Comments »Over the last years, Open Source Software has developed from a playground for hackers towards something defining for the mainstream market. But as there's more areas where copyrights play an important role, there's more work to do... Nowadays music, culture, science, ...
Wertvoll: New Eco Fashion Store in Berlin
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 Posted in Blog | 1 Comment »Wertvoll is a new eco fashion store opening it's doors in Berlin. They advertise with "an innovative and consequent fair trade concept". The store hosts a fine selection of eco brands for women, with designer fashion and Germany made knitwear ...
The Future of Food
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 Posted in Blog | No Comments »Just food for thought. Watch out: might be a bit radical for your mind. The rest of the film on you tube. I am going out in the sunshine and play with my daugther... and get some earth and seeds... via Sound ...
Humana - People to Profit
Friday, March 13th, 2009 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Recycling | No Comments »"People to people" is their slogan. And considering the accusation of Humana being a cult, this slogan gets a slightly different sound. While you think you post your old clothes to charity when donating them to the Humana box, you ...
Karmakonsum Goes Social Business
Thursday, March 12th, 2009 Posted in Blog | No Comments »Where last years Karmakonsum Konferenz had a primary focus on LOHAS and marketing, this year the program has a stronger focus on social business, with speakers like Hans Reitz (Mohammed Yunus right-hand) and Peter Spiegel from the GENISIS, a Greencamp ...
Where’s the Plug?
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Activism, Blog, Environment | No Comments »We're slightly re-branding our perception of reality. I remember a hilarious moment, having trouble with finding an actual spot, because on "google earth" reality looked different. We accept this as normal. Thereby we often forge how far the technological and virtual ...
Berlin Trainbirds: Make the City Your Livingroom
Thursday, March 5th, 2009 Posted in Blog | 3 Comments »There's no escape. About a week ago, some people did a little test for an action called "Zugvögel / Trainbirds", and said not to publish any materials. But after the action, they where so enthusiastic that they published about the ...
The Hess Man
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 Posted in Blog | 1 Comment »I tried it out! I've been involved in the eco fashion movement in Germany for about two years now, but I actually never tried any product of Hessnatur, one of the pioneering clothing companies in organics. My friend Noel insisted that ...
Grass Routes Becomes Official UN-Dekade Project
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Posted in Blog | 2 Comments »Last month, Grass Routes recieved the UN-Dekade "Education for Sustainable Development". As a young organization in the field we are very happy with this support and acknowledgment of our activities and our organization. The Dekade is given to a large ...
Nike and Creative Commons Launch Open Knowledge Sharing Project on Sustainability
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Posted in Blog, Environment, Fashion, Trends & Marketing | 2 Comments »The world is turning upside down. Nike and Creative Commons recently launched GreenXchange, "an open innovation platform that promotes the creation and adoption of technologies that have the potential to solve important global or industry-wide challenges". For the movement of open ...