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 ...
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 ...
Change Has Come! Congratulations to Barack Obama and the American People
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Politics, Trends & Marketing | 3 Comments »We celebrate an historic moment, a moment where the promise of change is made reality with the person of Barack Obama becoming the next president of the United States. Change has come to America and the world. Obama embodies his ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Obama’s organic cotton tees
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Politics | 1 Comment »From an early stage, US presidential candidate Barack Obama has been an object of style, and inspired artists in many different disciplines. Lately with a new clip featuring organic cotton celeb Bono and circus. As a style icon, Obama's ready ...
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, ...
DDT Threatens Organic Cotton in Africa
Thursday, July 10th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Politics | 2 Comments »In Uganda spraying of the highly controversial insecticide DDT has spoiled organic crops in Uganda. As Ecotextile News states in their report, over 11,000 farmers in Uganda are now stuck with cotton after it was rejected by buyers from the ...
My Encounter with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Brandenburger Tor
Monday, May 19th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Politics | 2 Comments »Today me and my daughter Gaya went to see his Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin. We were not the only ones, about twenty-five thousand people had the same idea, and so we stood pressed together, ...
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 ...