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 ...
Nike and Creative Commons Launch Open Knowledge Sharing Project on Sustainability
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Posted in Blog, Environment, Fashion, Trends & Marketing | 2 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Beyond Green: Dutch Sustainable Fashion Event
Monday, November 10th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Trends & Marketing | No Comments »Event tip: this Wednesday 12 November there is an international symposium entitlied Beyond Green, A Fashion Odyssey in the World Fashion Centre in Amsterdam. The aim of the symposium is to provide information to students and teaching staff in higher education, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Carticipate: Hitchhiking with your iPhone
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Travel, Trends & Marketing | 2 Comments »I used to be a hitchhiker of the old, adventurous style, thumbs up, and there we go. Since some years, you can book your carsharings and hitchhikes in Germany and Europe easily online. But getting a ride just by connecting ...
Baacode: Meet the Sheep that Made Your Sweater
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Trends & Marketing | 1 Comment »No it's not the first of April and this is a serious thing. A New Zealand company called Icebreaker developed a tracking system called the Baacode to track back the farm where the wool of an individual sweater comes from. Every ...
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 ...
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 ...
Reviewing Karmakonsum Greencamp
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in Blog, Environment, Trends & Marketing | No Comments »This weekend I visited the Karmakonsum LOHAS Conference and Greencamp. Most of this kinds of events mix in some green washing elements within the program, and I was excited to hear rather critical or in-depth approaches on these items from ...
Karmakonsum Conference: It is not Easy being Green
Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Trends & Marketing | No Comments »I am right now on the Karmakonsum Conference on LOHAS Marketing in Frankfurt, and in a few hours discussions hit the podium and heat up the athmosphere. An eclectic mix of people on the conference and an enlightening sunshine makes ...
Looking for a Ride from Berlin to the Karmakonsum Green Camp
Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Trends & Marketing | No Comments »On May 30 there is a LOHAS marketing Conference in Frankfurt (Germany) accompanied by a Green Camp on the day after. I'm at least going o the Green Camp to meet up with other bloggers and entrepreneurs in the field, ...