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The Grass Routes Blog is a blog on green lifestyle and sustainable living, with a special focus on green fashion, organic cotton, and innovative projects. Other topics include: fair trade, sustainable development, environmental issues, arts, culture,
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Live from the Ethical Fashion Show in Paris
A show with over hundreds of ethical fashion brands, exhibiting down under in the Louvre…that’s something unique. With all the green fashion around, the Ethical Fashion Show has some name ...
Green up the World with Grass Routes!
It all started a few years ago. Cecilia came across the difficulties to find fair trade shirts for fair prices, and so we started investigating. We got excited of how many projects actually exist, and...
Flashmobs in Hotpants to Fight Poverty
It’s activism. It’s marketing. It’s sexy. It’s fighting poverty. Pants to Poverty organizes Hotpants Flashmobs where young people gather on the streets in organic, fair trade u...
Chinchilla Fur + Polyester = Eco Fashion?
Japanese designer and furrier, Chie Imai, created an collection with the promising title “Eco Harmony”, mixing chinchilla and mink fur and recycled polyester. “Tying ecology with fur is ...
Meeting with Ecofashionjunkies
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. E...
Greenpeace Goes Grey!
Greenpeace Goes Grey!
We all know Greenpeace from their mediagenic actions against Walehunting and other environmental crimes. Over the last couple of years, the activist multinational has gone a new way with some own busi...
Berlin Citizens Discover Direct Democracy
Mediaspree Versenken from Pappsatt A group of activists against privatisation and gentrification gathered the highest amount of signatures so far for a public voting in Berlin for their call to have ...
Berlin Citizens Discover Direct Democracy
Carrotmobs: Flashmobs of Consumer Power
Carrotmobs: Flashmobs of Consumer Power
Carrotmob Makes It Rain from carrotmob on Vimeo. If shops and corporations do not react fast enough on our demand for ethical products and environmental responsibility, we will organize our consumer p...
Sounds of Sirens: How to Link Consumerism and Holistic Principles?
New Report by Clean Clothes Campaign: Sportswear Brands Still Violate Workers Rights
Wave of Social, Green and Political BarCamps from Berlin to Tibet
Artistic action pushes climate negotiations on Bali
Switching off the light on global scale: join Earth Hour on March 29, 2008
Virtual activism: plant a tree in facebook or second life
It is a lot of tree planting actions these days, and I am wondering where all these forests are growing. Cleaning up our emissions, or just filling up the empty spaces of cut down Amazon forests?The l...
German social fashion contests by Armed Angels and Fairwear.de
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...
NVOHK: eco-fashion managed by the people who wear it
All these new, green eco-fashion brands. They are soo cool, soo green, soo georgeous. A serious fashion event can't do without them. And there we are. Sometimes I wonder, why all activists, all creati...
Think Green, Live Green Challenge
Bring green to your screen! JuntoVenture, a video activist collective and non-profit environmental organization, is hosting a multi-media challenge entitled “The Think Green, Live Green Challenge.â€...
Act local, find local
A mysterious group called I-local campaigned in The Netherlands with a radical activist approach, the slogan "act local! find local!" and statements like "globalization is over".They spread more than...