-
Recent Posts
Archives
- September 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- June 2011
- March 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
Read about ...
Categories
Blogroll
- Global Eco-village network This is the BIGGEST DATABASE OF ECO-VILLAGES on the web. You can search by region, by theme, country … so sustainable lifestyle doesn´t mean one has to be absent from the web.
- sustainable settlements in the UK Eco-villages? Communes? Alternative settlements? There are more of them than you might think. Especially in the UK! Here´s a link that will prove it. So if you wanna search for projects on the island – get on it!
- Website for action in France (Alpes)
- Website for action in Greece You are going to Greece, you want to help the local activists AND you can read greek? This is the perfect website then …
- Website for action in Spain Alternative environmental and political action, direct action, workshops, demonstrations, people´s kitchen, … this website may help you to help spanish activists – or to meet them if you´re there …
Eat
- food-coop – do-it-yourself supermarket as you would want it to be: local and organic A food-coop is a collective of people who order products with local producers. Their food did not come by airplane from the other half of the globe and is organic in most cases. This link is a directory for food-coops in Germany.
- Whatever you are planning to do – there is a green way of doing it. The Green Guide tells you how. What to look for when buying paint? What vegetables are seasonally now? Small but important steps towards more sustainability are lited here.
Help them
- Are you living as if we had 2.34 planets? Knowledge is power and here is some of it. Packed lunch? Chemical-free laundry balls? Read here what you could do to treat the planet as a singular thing
- E-cosystems under construction motivated people created this platform for you to fill it with information about green events, eco-communities and other stuff.
- Website for action in France (Angers) Demosphere calling for action in Angers
- Website for action in France (Gironde) This website makes activist´s life much easier – especially when living in Gironde. On demosphere you will find environmental, political and cultural events, announcements of demonstrations and proposals for actions.
- Website for action in France (Paris and region) Going to Paris? If you are up for environmentalist or political action, for meeting other activists and to work the international network – have a look what is going on in and around Paris.
- What is Online Activism? Some organizations are actually providing you with the rare privilege to become an activist without moving away from your beloved screen. Here is just one example of an “action” performed in the cyberspace
Read
- E-cosystems under construction motivated people created this platform for you to fill it with information about green events, eco-communities and other stuff.
- Eco-friendly technology You are not one of the back-to-the-roots people, not up for returning to the forest yet? Still you can be eco-friendly with all your gadgets around you!
- Grassroot radio round the world – a collection of independent frequencies Annoying publicities after every second minute, copypasted news and the same song over and over again … had enough? Diversity on your radio is what this link can offer.
Recycle
- Reduce, reuse, freecycle – get stuff for free If you do not need it this does not mean nobody else could use it – and the other way around: find your local freecycle network, subscribe and get rid of useless things, make your secret material dreams come true – all free of charge and environmentally f
- Whatever you are planning to do – there is a green way of doing it. The Green Guide tells you how. What to look for when buying paint? What vegetables are seasonally now? Small but important steps towards more sustainability are lited here.
Travel
- Couchsurfing – You can sleep for free at people´s places all over the planet. Check out how it works This is a sustainable alternative to staying in hotels where loads of waste is generated every day (disposables, plastic packaging, paper), enery efficiency is mostly ignored and not local economy but some big hotel chain profits from your stay.
- Global Eco-village network This is the BIGGEST DATABASE OF ECO-VILLAGES on the web. You can search by region, by theme, country … so sustainable lifestyle doesn´t mean one has to be absent from the web.
- sustainable settlements in the UK Eco-villages? Communes? Alternative settlements? There are more of them than you might think. Especially in the UK! Here´s a link that will prove it. So if you wanna search for projects on the island – get on it!
- Whatever you are planning to do – there is a green way of doing it. The Green Guide tells you how. What to look for when buying paint? What vegetables are seasonally now? Small but important steps towards more sustainability are lited here.
Online Activism with Greenpeace- ERROR: Database error: Can't connect to database at /var/www/html/feed.pl line 181.
Tag Archives: Freiburg
The green district (5)
This was the time when the concept of housing cooperatives financed by syndication was born in Freiburg. By now the idea and its application has spread all over Germany. The cooperative housing syndicate (Mietshäuser Syndikat) takes a loan to buy a property and the inhabitants pay a monthly rent to first pay the loan back and second they continue to pay rent even after – to provide capital for the next sustainable living project, to buy it land or a house or a farm. This way the living space will never be owned by any person and will continue to serve as an independent, free and sustainable living zone. Continue reading
Posted in Political and environmental sustainability
Tagged alternative, buy property, city, concept, Europe, Freiburg, Germany, green, Grether Ost, housing cooperative, lifestyle, living, living zone, Moetshäuser Syndikat, mouvement, MSH, political, rent, Rhino, spreading out, sustainablility, syndicate, syndication, Vauban
Leave a comment
The green district (4)
Today the autonomous cultural initiative KTS has left Vauban, on the spot where the caravan place used to be there is now a construction site for a supermarket. The wind has changed. Only the huge housing cooperative SUSI remains and is home to families, couples young people and other people who tell stories of how Vauban used to be. Continue reading
The green district (3)
If you would have come to Vauban in the 90ies you would see a huge caravan place inhabited by people of different cultural backgrounds and ages. Small vegetable gardens used to prosper just next to the caravans, bands would play on an outdoor stage, exhibitions would take place in the squatted military barracks that the French army had left empty … Continue reading
Posted in Political and environmental sustainability
Tagged 90er, 90ies, autonomous, caravan place, center, centre, change, cultural centre, culture, Freiburg, french, gentrification, Germany, green, history, Ini, initiative, KTS, lifestyle, neighbor, neighbour, non-commercial, non-violent, past, quartier, social, society, squatting, SUSI, Vauban, zone
Leave a comment
The green district (2)
“We are the only hippies here” says a young inhabitant of the self-organised neighbour initiative SUSI. The buildings of the SUSI truly pop out of the general picture of Quartier Vauban: these are colourful houses with wooden balcony-constructions, campfires in the gardens and some caravans parking next to it. Yet, Quartier Vauban used to have a very different atmosphere … Continue reading
Posted in Political and environmental sustainability
Tagged architecture, architest, Atomkraft? Nein danke!, bionade bourgeoisie, blog, blogging, district, ecological, ecological consciousness, environmental, Freiburg, gree, green, hippie, history, image, lifestyle, Mietshäusersyndikat, neighbour initiative, photovoltaic, policy, pony riding, quartier, self organised, solar energy, SUSI, sustainable, Sustainable Alternatives, tent, Vauban
Leave a comment
The green district (1)
This time I will not take you to an autonomous commune or an illegally squatted territory. I will take you to a provincial middle sized city instead – with an entire environmentally friendly quarter and a Green-party major and a renewable energy policy. Quite bourgeois. Continue reading
Posted in Political and environmental sustainability
Tagged alternatives, blog, blogging, bourgeois, city, ecological district, environment, Freiburg, Germany, green, Green Party, image, major, Passivhaus, politics, quarter, Quartier Vauban, renewable energy, stereotype, Sustainability, sustainable, Sustainable Alternatives, sustainable lifestyle
Leave a comment
Sustainable Alternatives 