Just how original can your underwear be? Clare Bare is a designer from Brooklyn creating cool ecological vintage lingerie. These pieces are one-of-a-kinds and made from recycled vintage and organic cotton. On Crafting a green world there’s an interview with the designer: "They passed around a bunch of fur samples and argued that it is more
sustainable to use real fur as opposed to fake fur, because real fur
doesn’t create any waste or harmful byproducts. I thought to myself,
“Why not just forget about using either of them? Wouldn’t that solve
the problem?”

More items of Clare Bare on Etsy

 Via: the öko box blog

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In our neighbourhood in Berlin Kreuzberg we just discovered a lovely small shop called Siri na Lata selling a mix of wooden and reclycing jewellery and Brazilian products. The jewels are made by a local designer who works mainly with reclycing and natural materials such as wood and seeds. Quite orginal things. What in example about these Bionade -earrings from recycled Bionade bottle crowns? Very eco-style and with the popularity of the bio-lemonade in Berlin it works almost ironic.

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This week I made the great discovery that Komodo , a London based ethical clothing label, has opened shop + showroom in Berlin.

As Berlin doesn’t (yet!) count that many salespoints for the green-minded fashion consumer, that’s a happy surprise.

044, so is the common name for this space, isn’t just a Komodo store and showroom, but also houses the Berlin label Sommergold, a sewing workshop, two architects, a model agency… and speaking to one of the creative minds behind the 044 project, Gereon Pilz van der Grinten, I rather got the impression that these people will just continue setting up new cool projects.

 Komodo makes creative designs for ladies and gentlemen, including cool sneakers and a special Free Tibet collection.

044 – Oranienstr. 44, Berlin-Kreuzberg 

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Berlin is quite known for it’s creative scene, and now the eco design thing is starting to hit the thin here as well. There’s happening a lot, just also quite decentral. So time to unite! On the eco-fashion scene we’re trying to get people know each other and form a network, and we’re discovering new projects, designers and shops in Berlin every week. A lot of them are really local. I guess the coming year a lot of new initiatives and labels will see the light. We’ll report on more cool founds the coming months.

One of our newfounds is the label Kenpanda, with fine collections of shirts, dresses, and hoodies creatively screenprinted with animal and street art inspired graphics and made from fair trade, organic cotton. Pretty original and playfull photoshootings. The label is run by Efka Weber and Kenan Polat who live on the Berlin Island Stralau. Enjoy!

(picture by Kenpanda)

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We all know about turning off our stereo or lamps when we don’t use them, but still most people don’t believe it when they hear that the internet is already producing more CO2 emissions than the worldwide airplane traffic . Trend: growing rapidly. If you’re still believing the internet saves our planet by reducing emissions, think again!

To all people wanting to live a green lifestyle: if you have to decide between using the internet or travelling unlimited around the world, what would you choose? I would definately give up the internet for that And anyway aim to travel emissionfree…

I’m already doing a computerfree sunday for my personal wellbeing, but what about organizing such a thing as a global action? Hey, Adbusters , are you reading?

By the way, are you already doing your green thing ? This month the green thing is to turn off your gadgets and reduce your emissions. There’s
a boom of sites helping you living greener with tips and tricks, but
this one is fun and arty. Also check out their videosection, with a nice collection of green issue video’s …

A groovy quite from the Green Thing crew: 

"You see, we’ve slowly let machines take over – and not even big,
scary machines like The Terminator or the Daleks. No, the ones that sit
in the corner of our rooms looking all fun and innocent and
labour-saving whilst secretly guzzling electricity like there’s no
tomorrow."

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