the key.to Berlin Fashion TV
Thursday, May 28th, 2009 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Environment, Fashion, Grass Routes on Tour, Recycling, Trends & Marketing | No Comments »currently you don't hear too much here on the blog because we're putting all our energy in supporting new green fashion events like thekey.to, build a new office, a new website and also need holidays sometimes. Here on this video ...
Grass Routes Presents: thekey.to, International Event for Green Fashion & Culture in Berlin
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Consume, Design, Fashion, Trends & Marketing | 4 Comments »thekey.to is the new international fair for green fashion and sustainable lifestyle. Between 1st and 4th July 2009, a selection of sustainable fashion labels ranging from street-wear to high fashion will be on display in Berlin. The chosen brands are ...
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, ...
The Green Movement is a Spiritual Avant-Garde
Saturday, February 21st, 2009 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Environment | 1 Comment »The BioFach changed. Less people from other regions of the world, a bit more suits and ties, a bit less woolen socks, and a growing scene of young, bright people. Walking around on the fair, it is incredible to see ...
Blogging from the BioFach organic Fair 2009
Friday, February 20th, 2009 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Consume, Environment | 2 Comments »What is it like to be on the largest organic fair in the world? Thursday at BioFach: 13.00 Thanks to Ozan from Foodorama for the hitch to the Biofach! 14.00 Bloggers get a special treatment here and are considered press. New York Times ...
GLOBERLIN: the Green Lab Office Berlin
Friday, February 13th, 2009 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Environment | 1 Comment »Some cool creatives from the sustainability szene are starting a cooperative green office together in Berlin Kreuzberg. GLOBERLIN is the new work & think space/tank/network for the creative sustainability szene in Berlin. The Green Lab Office Berlin. I am one of ...
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 ...
Ecofashion Network Party Revisited
Sunday, February 1st, 2009 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | No Comments »The German eco fashion scene is still growing, and our network party, organized toghether with Noel from Karmakonsum, was a proof of it. Despite a stuffed Fashion Week program, about 70 professionals and designers committed to ethical fashion visited the ...
Eco Fashion Guide for the Berlin Fashion Week
Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion, Trends & Marketing | No Comments »Your Eco Fashion Guide for the Berlin Fashion Week: Although the amount of green designers and eco brands in Germany is still growing, the topic of eco fashion in Germany somehow slided away from the main stage again. There are some ...
Sustainable Clothing Company Hessnatur goes 2.0
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion, Trends & Marketing | No Comments »Hess Natur is a respected German clothing company who has been a pioneer in ethical and environmental responsibility for over twenty years. The company has recently made some interesting steps, some of them due to an enthoussiastic young guarde with ...
Green Dining and Partying in Berlin
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Consume, Travel | No Comments »It is still hard for die-hard-greenies to go out in a city and stay with your ideals. Often you just let it slip away and consume whatever comes along. Fair trade coffee with your w-lan? A cool, affordable restaurant serving ...
Sweat & Shop Revisited
Thursday, December 4th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Design, Environment, Fashion | 1 Comment »Under the provocative name Sweat & Shop, Fashion designers, NGO representatives, experts, students, and bloggers gathered about a week ago to discuss the topic of sustainability and fashion. The workshop was organized by sustainability network 3plusX, the Grass Routes Foundation ...
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 ...
Offline Greens the Mind
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany | 1 Comment »Last week we had our own little Biohotel at our place and around, after a crew meeting of the LOHAS boyband featuring Noël "Karmakonsum" Klein-Reesink, Christoph "Yoga Guerilla" Harrach, Jan "Hess Natur" Miller, Sjörn "Konsumguerilla" Plitzko, and me, we had ...
LIVE: Mohammed Yunnus on the VISION SUMMIT: Berlin is Worldcentre for Social Business
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Politics | 1 Comment »Today at the Vision Summit 2008 in Berlin we celebrate some interesting developments here in Berlin, with a special guest: Mohammed Yunnus. Yunnus declares Berlin to be the world centre for Social Business. According to Yunnus, Social Businesses are founded ...
Frithjof Bergmann on the VISION SUMMIT 2008: Financial Crisis is Just a Cover Up of Rising Poverty
Saturday, November 1st, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Consume, Fair Trade, Politics | No Comments »I just jumped into a workshop at the Vision Summit with Professor Frithjof Bergmann, founder of New Work. He starts his talk with a strong statement: "the financial crisis is used to cover up what hides behind the curtains. But ...
Live from the VISION SUMMIT 2008 in Berlin
Saturday, November 1st, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Fair Trade, Politics | No Comments »Just freshly arrived with Noel from Karmakonsum at the Vision Summit conference on Social Business in Berlin. In the first speech, professor Werner, founder of the drugstore DM, makes a strong note for a basic income for everyone. This will stimulate ...
German Green Hotspots for November
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Environment | 1 Comment »[caption id="attachment_858" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Expected: grass green statement by Angela Merkel"][/caption] Despite financial crises, the green movement in Germany is still developing and gathering in conferences and meetings as if they have to save the planet within a month... -> Utopia, the ...
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 ...
Organic Cotton Shirts for Nazi’s?
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | 4 Comments »Okay, more and more people are getting to know about organic cotton. But organic cotton Nazi shirts? I just read on a post on the german blog Korrekte Klamotten that some Nazi postorder company sells nice Nazi shirts made ...