One Day of Ethical Fashion in London
Friday, March 26th, 2010 Posted in Blog, Environment | 4 Comments »London can surely be named one of the key cities in the world when it comes to green or - the British way - ethical fashion. I've just arrived last night and as the speed in London is accelerated, so ...
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 ...
Earth Hour: Largest Climate Action Ever
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Activism, Blog, Energy & Climate, Environment | 8 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 ...
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 ...
Nike and Creative Commons Launch Open Knowledge Sharing Project on Sustainability
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Posted in Blog, Environment, Fashion, Trends & Marketing | 3 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 ...
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 ...
Eco Sex, Organic Pleasures & Green Porno
Thursday, January 15th, 2009 Posted in Activism, Blog, Environment, Products | 5 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 ...
A Happy Green Year!
Thursday, January 8th, 2009 Posted in Blog, Environment, Fashion | No Comments »Happy green year to all readers of this blog! May the year be a good one for you and your planet! I'm looking forward to a fresh new year, to a year of new vision and a lot to come. We ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sarah Palin & Plastic Trees
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 Posted in Environment, Trends & Marketing | 1 Comment »A sort of green MTV spots shouting out flashy clashy green news items into your living room? Well, it might sound crazy, but Zaproot is just that. Like it or not, this green internet news show covers environmental issues with ...
First German Transition Town Initiative in Berlin
Monday, September 22nd, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Environment | 3 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, ...
Meeting the Berlin Sustainability Scene
Friday, September 19th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Environment | 3 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 ...
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 ...