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…
Year: 2011
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…
Veist – clothing stories
This Saturday, the 12th of November 2011, the vintage and one-of-a-kind store VEIST is opening in Berlin Neukölln. But more then just a piece of vintage clothing, VEIST is selling stories. The stories that are wrapped around the selected vintage clothing pieces. Sandra Troegl, formerly known from the eco-social agency Nest, and before that for…
Designtransfer
Im Rahmen des Designtransfer Programms der UDK beeindruckte mich Petz Scholtus vorige Woche mit einem klasse Vortrag und vielen schönen Beispielen aus der Welt des Öko-Designs. Die gebürtige Luxemburgerin, die ihren Abschluss in Eco-Design am Goldsmith College in London machte, lebt und arbeitet seit 2004 als freiberufliche Designerin in Barcelona. Hier hat sie sich auch…
Beyond Fashion Summit 2011. We did it!
The first Beyond Fashion Summit is behind us. The Beyond team and our many helping hands have come out of the other side and are now looking back on a successful event that saw around 20 speakers inform and inspire more than 100 participants. In cooperation with the Christian Initiative Romero in the rooms of…
The Beyond Fashion Summit delivers successful and inspiring debut
The Beyond Fashion Summit had a successful and inspiring debut. With over 100 participants and speakers from all over the world, the Summit created a positive environment for intense knowledge exchange and interaction. Among the participants, especially the intensity of the speeches, the personal atmosphere, and concentrated contact making where recognized. You can find some…