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 ...
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 ...
Affentor: Luxury Recycling Bags from Frankfurt
Friday, October 17th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Design, Fashion | 1 Comment »I'm having a two day hang out in Frankfurt with Karmakonsum, brainstorming and working on new projects, and taking the challenge to visit a few cool projects here in Frankfurt as well. Yesterday I paid a visit to the shop and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Clothingbrand Tchibo Print their own Anticommercials
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Fashion | 1 Comment »"This T-shirt is sewn by a child for Tchibo" stands on the shirt. Clothing company Tchibo offers a new print-on-demand service, where you can send in your own texts to be printed. Dr. Kirstin Brodde, German textile expert and editor for ...
ÖkoRausch & Sommerkiosk: Events for Eco-Design
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Design | No Comments »While we at Grass Routes are still clearing the details for the next Fair Fashion in Berlin, the Bureau Gruen in Cologne comes with a concurring event in September: the ÖkoRausch, a "Fair for design with consicousness". The event wants ...
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, ...
German Social Fashion Label Armed Angels launches New Collection & website
Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | 1 Comment »Social fashion - for the label Armed Angels this means more than organic cotton and fair trade production. The label also involves their online community in deciding over the models, print designs, and to which charity the 3,33 Euro per ...
Brave New Shirt: Wireless Chips in our Garments
Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Consume, Web | 1 Comment »Thousands of garments sold at German warehouse Galeria Kaufhof are equipped with small, almost invisible wireless chips that can be identified and traced through radio frequency. The shop that sold your garment can trace the product day and night, and ...
Boom of Community Based Ethical Consumer Sites in Germany
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Consume, Web | No Comments »In Germany there is a boom of new, community based ethical consumer websites that are being launched. One of the most successful of these on the moment is Utopia. Another initiative with some good names behind it is New Ethics, both ...
Eco Fashion Spotting: German Custom Made Organic Jeans by IND NAT
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | No Comments »Sometimes I am just happily surprised by finding a new fashion brand with ethical approach. The people behind IND NAT replied on an article on this blog a few days ago and I have to admit they are not completely ...
Reports from the BioFach: in Search for Organic Cotton
Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | 5 Comments »Everything organic on the BioFach? Maybe for food it mostly was. But visiting all the textile related stands on the BioFach, I had some remarkable encounters. At a stand where they had a good looking offer of organic cotton materials, ...
German Social Fashion Contests by Armed Angels and Fairwear.de
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | No Comments »Armed Angels are a young, trendy social fashion label from Cologne. They are conquering Germany with just a few simple shirts. Only selling over the internet, or through friends and friends of friends of friends. 3,33 Euro per piece of ...