New Home for ID22, Institute for Creative Sustainability
Friday, February 8th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Environment | No Comments »As a symbolic new start, Berlin's institute for creative sustainability celebrated it's new home in Prenzlauer Berg on Chinese New Year, introducing the year of the rat. Moving from it's former base in the cultural community UfaFabrik, the institute now ...
Tout, autour de la Terre
Thursday, June 28th, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | No Comments »We were flying between the clouds. The lights of our van disappeared just in front of us. A dreamland of mists and fogs. Small, turning roads. A red fox crossing our path. Old, abandoned stonehouses with a glimpse of ancient, ...
Torri Superiore
Thursday, June 28th, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | No Comments »The omens where not too good. A low bridge with a roadsign saying 2.20 max. while our bus counts 2.60 high was a first warning, though we managed to get across. Just behind the bridge we were stopped by a ...
Ecovillages
Monday, June 4th, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | No Comments »Mostly they hide in places far from civilization, close to nature and basicly every place is different. We have been visiting some projects that we found through the Global Ecovillage Network. It is an interesting way of travelling, visiting alternative ...
Communards of Urupia
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | 2 Comments »One day you wake up, you realize the world suffers a lot from egoism, selfishness and materialism and you decide to change your life. Well, people now and then do these things and some of them create communes, exchanging their ...
Making soap and other projects
Monday, May 14th, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | 2 Comments »One day we visited an alternative beach resort nearby. Between the olive trees, small holiday houses lead you to the beach. In between there is small pieces of land where all kinds of vegetables are grown organic. Just before the ...
Painting flowers eating olives
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 9 Comments »A small container house with sea view, bamboo roofed terrace, colorful hammock, surrounded by olive trees, and nothing to hear than the waterfall deep down, the wind generator zooming, the frogs, birds, and sometimes a donkey passing by on the ...
Close to paradise
Sunday, April 15th, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | 1 Comment »From Rakitni we traveled to the south of Istria, Kroatia, and visited the Eco Art Centar EIA, which is located close to the village Bale. We arrived around sunset and we were immediately amazed by the place. You can really see ...
earth ships
Sunday, April 15th, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | 1 Comment »We would like to learn more about earth ships. They are ecological houses made of recycled materials made with simple, low tech methods. The houses look great and it is cheap to make them. But they are different then normal ...
Brothers and sisters of the rainbow
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | 1 Comment »In the morning we climbed the hill to the hippie camp. On top of the hill was a tipi standing, with a little fire still burning, and around it people sleeping or just waking up. In the shades down we ...