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 ...
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 ...
Is Fashion a Dressed up Dinosaur?
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Energy & Climate, Environment, Fashion | 1 Comment »According to Permaculture co-founder David Holmgren we have enough clothing produced for the coming 20 years, so we don't need to waste our resources or time any more on clothing production, and can just let fashion die out like a ...
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 ...
Inconvenient Truths in The Lowlands
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Energy & Climate, Environment, Politics | 1 Comment »Not all that long ago Al Gore predicted that The Netherlands will partly disappear in the sea due to climate change. But when one looks at the actual developments in the lowland country, the message of climate change did not ...
Green Space Traveling?
Thursday, September 4th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Energy & Climate, Environment | No Comments »Okay, I'm starting to get a bit used to all the eco-luxury lifestyle hyping, and if you anyway can't resist big cars, why not have a "green hummer"? Or if you anyway want to waste your money on parties, fly ...
Greenpeace Goes Grey!
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Energy & Climate, Environment | 1 Comment »We all know Greenpeace from their mediagenic actions against Walehunting and other environmental crimes. Over the last couple of years, the activist multinational has gone a new way with some own business initiatives where they take responsibility for the issues ...
Sounds of Sirens: How to Link Consumerism and Holistic Principles?
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Consume, Energy & Climate, Environment | No Comments »For some time I met Lars Schmidt, together with his partner Steffa Roth running their project Art & Ecology Education. Because of the name I guessed there was a connection with Grass Routes, as we work with creativity and sustainability ...
Eco Cho: Websearching Against Climate Change
Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Energy & Climate, Environment, Web | 3 Comments »Planting some trees to reduce your emissions is not that sufficient. A lot of CO2 reduction programs are more about cooling down your conscious than about cooling down our planet. Okay, mostly it does not hurt to plant trees, but ...
Artistic action Pushes Climate Negotiations on Bali
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Energy & Climate, Environment | No Comments »Activists from Avaaz and an international coalition of youth organizations, along with local and national NGOs, created a human body activist art project on Kuta Beach in Bali. Artist John Quigley organized the crowd of over a 500 people to ...
Climate Change: the Ice is Melting Faster than Ever
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Energy & Climate | 1 Comment »New research analyses show that world wide Gletsjers are loosing ice faster and faster. The speed in hwich the ice melts is still going up. As gletsjers are seen as one the best indicators for the situation of our climate, ...
Switching off the Light on Global Scale: join Earth Hour on March 29, 2008
Friday, March 14th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Energy & Climate, Environment | No Comments »It's night and the sky is... orange....green...or pink. In a large part of the world real darkness is unknown, caused by electric light pollution from cities, street lamps and green houses. Researches shows that unlighted highways are as safe as ...
Virtual activism: Plant a Tree in Facebook or Second Life
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Energy & Climate, Environment, Web | 1 Comment »It is a lot of tree planting actions these days, and I am wondering where all these forests are growing. Cleaning up our emissions, or just filling up the empty spaces of cut down Amazon forests? The latest sprout on the ...
Rainforests Disappear Faster Thanks to Biofuel
Monday, January 28th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Energy & Climate, Environment, Politics | 1 Comment »In an effort to make our cars go greener, our EU governments decided to push the production of biofuel (also known as biogas or biodiesel, with an immediate result: rainforests are disappearing faster. After environmental organizations alarmed, the EU promised ...