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 ...
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 ...
Global Twestival for Charity:Water
Thursday, February 12th, 2009 Posted in Activism, Berlin & Germany, Blog, Trends & Marketing | 1 Comment »Today there's a global "Twestival", bringing together Twitter communities in over 175 cities around the world for "an evening of fun and to raise money and awareness for Charity: Water". Charity:water is a project raising money for water wells ...
Eco Sex, Organic Pleasures & Green Porno
Thursday, January 15th, 2009 Posted in Activism, Blog, Environment, Products | 3 Comments »Eco sex? Somehow suggests something rough and natural, with sweat, a lot of dark hair and natural substances. But why should one eat organic food and then use petrochemicals and highly toxic toys to have sex with? Doesn't sound all ...
Green up your Government!
Monday, December 15th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Energy & Climate, Politics | No Comments »The current financial crisis is an excellent opportunity to combine saving the economy with changing it for the better. It doesn't have to cost us anything more, we just have to steer the money in the good direction. Currently most of ...
First Dutch Carrotmob
Friday, December 5th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Environment, Trends & Marketing | 3 Comments »This Sunday the first Dutch Carrotmob is taking place in Amsterdam. The crew of Strawberry Earth asked around in bars in Amsterdam who would give the most for greening their bar, and the bar who offered the largest percentage will ...
Buena Vista Socialbar
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 Posted in Activism, Berlin & Germany, Design, Environment, Trends & Marketing, Web | No Comments »Yesterday I visited the Socialbar in Berlin, a monthly event where NGO meets web2.0. There were presentations of Karsten Wenzlaf from Nachhall Texter, who involved in the Obama campaign and presented his experiences, Florian Noto from the anti-nuclear campaign Atomausstieg ...
Yes Men Spread Spoof NY Times and Proclaim End of Iraq War
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Politics | 1 Comment »New York Times Special Edition Video News Release - Nov. 12, 2008 from H Schweppes on Vimeo. November 12, 2008 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SPECIAL TIMES EDITION BLANKETS U.S. CITIES, PROCLAIMS END TO WAR Early this morning, commuters nationwide were delighted to find out that while ...
Reverse Graffity Actions by Greenpeace
Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Berlin & Germany, Energy & Climate | 4 Comments »Over the last months, Greenpeace activists have done several actions using reverse graffiti techniques. It seems the usage of clean or reverse graffiti is still on it's rise, since it is a technique both harmless for the environment and for ...
Communism didn’t Work, Capitalism doesn’t Work, You Work
Thursday, October 16th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Politics | 1 Comment »Shame on me! I just missed joining Blog Action Day, where thousands of bloggers joined to write about poverty. Sitting in a funky train to Frankfurt, no time to be busy with this issue, ignoring the beggars and homeless as ...
Live from the Ethical Fashion Show in Paris
Saturday, October 11th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Fashion, Travel, Trends & Marketing | 1 Comment »A show with over hundreds of ethical fashion brands, exhibiting down under in the Louvre...that's something unique. With all the green fashion around, the Ethical Fashion Show has some name in pioneering for the ethical fashion trend. We arrived at ...
Green up the World with Grass Routes!
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | 3 Comments »It all started a few years ago. Cecilia came across the difficulties to find fair trade shirts for fair prices, and so we started investigating. We got excited of how many projects actually exist, and just wondered why we knew ...
Flashmobs in Hotpants to Fight Poverty
Monday, October 6th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Fashion, Trends & Marketing | 4 Comments »It's activism. It's marketing. It's sexy. It's fighting poverty. Pants to Poverty organizes Hotpants Flashmobs where young people gather on the streets in organic, fair trade underpants to fight poverty. Genious actions, they knwo what they are doing. And the ...
Chinchilla Fur + Polyester = Eco Fashion?
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Fashion | 1 Comment »Japanese designer and furrier, Chie Imai, created an collection with the promising title "Eco Harmony", mixing chinchilla and mink fur and recycled polyester. “Tying ecology with fur is such a fascinating concept,” says Imai. “Fur can be worn for generations, ...
Creative Activism Party in Berlin
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Berlin & Germany, Blog | 1 Comment »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 ...
Green Graffiti made of Moss
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Design, Trends & Marketing | No Comments »The artist Anna Garforth developed green graffiti made of Moss as part of her art project Mossenger. As glue she uses a mix of yogurt and sugar. "The Moss acts as a healthy alternative for spraying paints, eventually it ...
The Yes Men Prepare for US Elections
Thursday, August 28th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Politics | No Comments »The Yes men, known for their sublime actions where they pretend to be representatives of corporations on meetings of WTO, are preparing an action targeted at the US elections with the topic of the Iraq war. To realize their action, ...
Meeting with Ecofashionjunkies
Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Fashion | 3 Comments »Just met up with Philipp from Ecofashionjunkies, a fresh new blog on ecofashion and quite promising. We had a lunch at the organic, vegetarian snackbar Yellow Sunshine around the corner of my house. Ecofashionjunkies is a fresh new blog on ecofashion ...
Cool eco-streetart or smart soap commercials?
Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Trends & Marketing | 1 Comment »What's all those 15 year old kids running around with buckets and spouses by night? It's the new graffiti hype, stupid. Having a respectful amount of creative streetwaste on my account, I've always been a bit worried about the environmental effects ...
Berlin Citizens Discover Direct Democracy
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Berlin & Germany, Blog | No Comments »Mediaspree Versenken from Pappsatt A group of activists against privatisation and gentrification gathered the highest amount of signatures so far for a public voting in Berlin for their call to have the Berlin river Spree for everyone. While the local ...