LIVE: Mohammed Yunnus on the VISION SUMMIT: Berlin is Worldcentre for Social Business
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Politics | No 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 | 2 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 ...
Atelier Sales at Eco Streetwear Label Slowmo
Saturday, September 27th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | No Comments »Slowmo is a cool, green streetwear label from Berlin Friedrichshain, and this weekend they have sales at their Atelier.The clothes are made from 100% organic cotton and produced locally in Berlin. Felicia Moss, the designer of the label, told me ...
First German Transition Town Initiative in Berlin
Monday, September 22nd, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Environment | No 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 ...
Creative Activism Party in Berlin
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Berlin & Germany, Blog | 1 Comment »Just wanted to tip my Berlin readers to the release party of creative activism magazine Mašta: Mašta is a Berlin based global magazine for creative activists, "a collection of best practices of creative activism, where the mind of the artist merges ...
Green Fashion Party in Berlin
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | 1 Comment »This Saturday there's a Green Fashion Party at the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin, with shows by the Berlin labels Magdalena Schaffrin and Caro E. Later on the evening there's the show "All Green" by Skunkfunk. The creative brand Skunkfunk just ...
Meeting with Ecofashionjunkies
Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Fashion | 3 Comments »Just met up with Philipp from Ecofashionjunkies, a fresh new blog on ecofashion and quite promising. We had a lunch at the organic, vegetarian snackbar Yellow Sunshine around the corner of my house. Ecofashionjunkies is a fresh new blog on ecofashion ...
Free Tibet Shoes by Komodo
Thursday, August 21st, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Products | No Comments »I just had a good long lunch with Gereon from Komodo and afterwards picked up these cool Free Tibet shoes at their new Berliner showroom in the Oranienstrasse. They are going to be on sale in February next year so ...
Eco Fashion Network Meeting in Berlin
Monday, July 21st, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | No Comments »Last weekend during the Berlin Fashion Week we organized a network meeting with Karmakonsum for the German eko fashion scene. 35 designers, shop owners and bloggers got together in Bio Restaurant Diwan and had an inspiring and fruitful evening. It ...
Korrekte Klamotten: Meeting the German Eco-Fashion Scene
Thursday, July 17th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | No Comments »Under the name Korekte Klamotten a group of German eco-fashion labels have started a collective blog to share their news about new collections and upcoming events. The blog is started by the shirtlabel Fairliebt and until now Slowmo, B-Green and ...
Berlin Citizens Discover Direct Democracy
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Berlin & Germany, Blog | No Comments »Mediaspree Versenken from Pappsatt A group of activists against privatisation and gentrification gathered the highest amount of signatures so far for a public voting in Berlin for their call to have the Berlin river Spree for everyone. While the local ...
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, ...
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 ...
Treches by JBR: New Organic Streetwear Label from Berlin
Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | No Comments »It's getting a hot spring for eco-fashion in Berlin. We choose a good time to kickstart our own label Pamoyo. Yesterday we where on the show of the new organic streetwear label Treches, a label by designerin "JBR", ...
Pamoyo: New Green Fashion Styled With Heart
Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Design, Fashion, Products | No Comments »We launched the new Pamoyo site and Pamoyo collection during a short trip to The Netherlands, making it a truly nomadic clothing label. And it took a few days before I noticed I did not even announced it here on ...
Grass Routes at the SelfHub in Berlin
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | No Comments »The SelfHub is a 'club for people with ideas'. It fuses the best of grounders centre, library, cafe and office lounge. The SelfHub is part of an international network of Hubs around the world and the first one in Germany. We ...
"Change the World with Style": Presentation by the Grass Routes Foundation
Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog | No Comments »Dear friends and all interested, We invite you to a special evening on Thursday the 15th of May in the SelfHub in Berlin, where we will present you the projects and ideas of Grass Routes in a creative way, to ...