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 ...
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 ...
First German Transition Town Initiative in Berlin
Monday, September 22nd, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Environment | 7 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 | 7 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...