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 ...
LIVE: Mohammed Yunnus on the VISION SUMMIT: Berlin is Worldcentre for Social Business
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Politics | 7 Comments »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 ...
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 ...
Green up the World with Grass Routes!
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | 8 Comments »It all started a few years ago. Cecilia came across the difficulties to find fair trade shirts for fair prices, and so we started investigating. We got excited of how many projects actually exist, and just wondered why we knew ...