As part of the Fashion Design and Sustainability class at Parsons Design school in New York the eco-fashion label Loomstate set up a competition this year. The recently graduated Andria Crescioni won this challenge with creating a zero-waste product that looks cool and is also made of organic material. A grey anorak that comes in one…
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Portable dyer’s workshop
Look, what we discovered. With this special portable dying set you can make your own natural dye from plants and berries. It comes in a kit, in a wooden suitcase and looks really pretty. Studio Swine is behind this nice idea and was inspired by America’s tradition of travelling salesman. Each kid includes a pack…
1 Sunday of Advent
Yes, it’s already that time of year again. And every year the same question: Where to look for Christmas presents? Hopefully not in the big shopping malls or commercial chain stores, but rather in a cozy atmosphere at a market in the middle of Neukölln. This Sunday the first “Ladenmarkt” will take place. Natural, sustainable,…
Opening Party
For all metropolitans and those who are in Berlin city this Friday: the first Upcycling-Fashion Store will open its doors in the district Mitte and you are all invited. This store will stay for only 3 months in the Linienstr.77 and gives insight into the world of fashionable recycling projects. Labels like Aluc, EL Reinventor,…
Unpack it today!
In line with the European Week for Waste Reduction (19. -27.11.2011) today is the first “Unpack-it day”. This action is supposed to raise awareness about the packing madness in our world. All sweets, cereals, even bananas and many other products are packed separately, twice mostly, which is unnecessary and pollutes our planet. In the EU…
Discovered – Liu Bolin – Hiding in the city
The Chinese artist Liu Bolin is a piece of art himself. It takes his assistant up to 10 hours to paint Bolin’s whole body including his clothes. The result – with his customised outfit he resembles the environment so well that it looks like he is blending right into the background. Like that he becomes…
PPR dates planet with environmental account
The french multinational enterprise PPR, known for retail and luxury brands such as Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Stella Mc Cartney and Puma, announced to commit to an environmental profit and loss account by 2015. After PUMA developed and presented this account for their company and published the first results, now the whole PPR Group will…
To do this weekend – Heldenmarkt Berlin
“Shopping for do-gooders” is the theme of this year’s fair for sustainable consumption in Berlin. 140 exhibitors such as Coffee Circle, GOTS, LemonAid and ChariTea e.V., Naturstrom, Oxfam and many more will present sustainable developments in various areas of life. A fashion show, a number of lectures, a programme for children and biological catering should…
A Sunday at the Charity flea market
It was nice last Sunday – a small cozy location, nice people, good music and quite some stuff to rummage around. The charity flea market took place in the New Deli Yoga in the middle of Berlin-Kreuzberg. Some helpers baked cake and at the bar you could start your Sunday morning with a cocktail. Why…
Cleaning spray, why not make it yourself?
As I have recently learned in Mareike Hadeler’s talk at the Designtransfer, shower gels contain 70 % of water – water that is transported in big dispensers, which travel lots of kilometers, which again causes a lot of unnecessary waste. The same goes for cleaning sprays. Those plastic canisters are mostly very big, take a lot…