It might seem like a bundle of contradictions, the lifestyle of the well-to-do Prenzlauer Berg crowd. There are the big cars (that I keep going on about) and the big-time consumption on the one hand and there is the organic food and the waste separation on the other green-thumbed extremity. Plus there is the image of P-Berg as being the biggest breeding ground [...] Continue Reading…
The only way is up!
Why not rent a bicycle and cycle down to the Upcycle Fashion Store in Berlin Mitte?! The outlet in Linienstraße 77 is the first of its kind in the capital. Upcycling being the ‘big brother’, no, better ‘big sista’ of recycling. http://upcycling-fashion.com/about/
“Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of [...] Continue Reading…
Everyone knows about the Reinheitsgebot or the laws governing the making of Beer in Germany – the “German Beer Purity Law” or the “Bavarian Purity Law.
It stated that the only ingredients that could be used in the making of beer was water, barley and hops. The law originated in the city of Ingolstadt in the duchy of Bavaria on 23 April [...] Continue Reading…
Tempelhof Airport in 1984 – foto Wikipedia by TSGT Jose Lopez Jr., US Air Force
Organic sunflowers, hot peppers, chestnut trees, paprika, millet, kale and chestnut trees is what one smells now between the former runways of the airport Tempelhof instead of aviation fuel.
Where expensive business jets landed and were parked side by side as late as the 2008 World Cup held in [...] Continue Reading…
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Metzer Strasse 33, Prenzlauer Berg, – http://metzer-eck.de/
Today’s UK ‘Guardian’ newspaper wrote an article entitled ‘Around Berlin in 80 beers‘which is based on a book with a similar name ‘Around Berlin in 80 Beers’ by Peter Sutcliffe [publisher is ‘Cogan & Mater’]. http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2011/jun/07/berlin-bars-food-drink-beer?INTCMP=SRCH
It asked the author to come up with 10 good addresses and the Metzer Eck, [...] Continue Reading…
Twenty thousand people demonstrated in central Berlin today to demand their government change the agriculture industry and protect consumers from the ‘out-of-control’ food producers.
The demonstration was organized in ‘International Green Week’ the yearly agricultural exhibition in Berlin.
Motto for the protest read – “We’ve had enough – no to genetic engineering, factory farming and export dumping!!”
They further demanded more organic and arable animal farming with less [...] Continue Reading…
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Some weeks ago German government food inspectors uncovered excessively high levels of the cancer-causing substance ‘dioxin’ in some poutlry products and eggs, which were later traced to an animal feed company.
The chemical – traced back to company Harles and Jentzsch, which supplyed up to 3,000 tons of ‘fatty- acids’ which had been sold for industrial use and ended up instead as animal feed.
The [...] Continue Reading…
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