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20 € Discount for GTB Ethical Fashion Webshop

2009-10-18T15:09:21+02:00

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Ethical Fashion Kollektionsverkauf

2009-10-18T14:47:30+02:00

Ethical Fashion im Autohaus.
Jeden Freitag und Samstag bis Weihnachten verkaufen Musterteile und Ueberhaenge unserer Marken Kuyichi,Stewart&Brown,Edun und Terra Plana im frueheren Autohaus Suetterlin in Freiburg Merzhausen.

No Glue in my shoe

2009-10-08T17:19:35+02:00

Klebstoff ist eines der Hauptprobleme während der Schuhproduktion.

Terra Plana ist das Problem mit einer Art Cradle to Cradle Ansatz angegangen

Wie das geht seht Ihr im Video

Kaufen könnt Ihr den innovativen Schuh namens Barack hier

Vivo Barefoot Running der neue Schuh ab 2010

2009-10-06T20:47:20+02:00

Ab Sommer 2010 kommt der erste Vivo Barefoot Running Schuh EVO auf den Markt. Natürlich werden wir den Schuh in unserem Goodtruebeautiful Shop anbieten.

Nachdem ich nach Jahren mit konventionellen Runningschuhen ins (Vivo)Barfusslager gewechselt bin kann ich es kaum erwarten den EVO zu testen.

Zur Zeit laufe ich ca 30 Km pro Woche mit diesem Schuh und bin eigentlich ganz zufrieden

Einen tollen Artikel zum Hintergrund der Laufschuhdebatte findet Ihr hier ( auf Englisch)

Goodtruebeautiful Shop online

2009-09-13T11:54:36+02:00

Endlich ist es soweit die Beta(Test)version unseres neuen Onlinehops ist unter www.gtb-shop.de online.

Es erwartet Euch eine Riesenauswahl an Fair Trade + Organic Trendfashion.

Das Angebot wird in den nächsten Wochen um die aktuellen Kollektione der Marken Misericordia,Edun,Terra Plana,Kuyichi, Stewart+Brown und Vivobarefoot und vielen mehr ergänzt.Besonders zu erwähnen is tdie Riesenauswahl an Organic Denim sowie der aktuellen Premium Linie von Kuyichi in limitierter Auflage.

Viel Spass beim stöbern und tragt Euch doch bitte in unseren Newsletterverteiler mit tollen Aktionen, Sonderpreisen usw. ein

Danke an alle beim Hort und bei Kultwerk insbesondere Jacob + Eike, sowie Jens + Rob, danke auch an Luci für Wochenlange Überstunden "Alles wird gut ! "

Wir freuen uns natürlich über viele Links und hinweise sowie über konstruktive Kritik

Constructive Capitalism

2009-06-24T16:53:02+02:00

Nice post from Umair Haque Worth à Read

"Gas-guzzling S.U.V.'s, cigarette boats, no-income mortgages and private jets should be relegated to the junk heaps of history, or better yet, put in a museum dedicated to never forgetting the greed and avarice that led us so far astray."

Who wrote this incendiary paragraph? Che Guevara's alter ego, perhaps — or maybe the ghost of Karl Marx? Nope — one of the authors was William Cohan, a former MD at JP Morgan and eminent financial observer, in the op-ed page of the NYT. It echoes my recent posts on "unnovation," where I used the Hummer as an example.

So if a snot-nosed kid like me and an eminence grise like Cohan both agree on the need for a better kind of capitalism — why are we making little progress towards building it?

I've thought long and hard for the last three to four years about a better kind of capitalism. Lately, my lab has been holding workshops about Capitalism 2.0 for blue-chip corporates, top-tier investors, radical innovators, and major international organizations alike. Here's what we've been discussing.

We can't build a better tomorrow unless we understand the root causes of today's crisis.
So much for green shoots. The unintended consequence of bailouts by the dozen is that bond markets are beginning to revolt. As yields get pushed up, all the quantitative easing in the world won't be able to put the economy back together again. Growth is — yet again — being thwarted.

Why this failure in solutions? Regulators and bankers seem stuck, endlessly debating the root cause of today's ongoing crisis. Is it a liquidity crisis, a solvency crisis, a crisis of trust? It is all of the above — yet, at root, none of the above. The real crisis is deeper, and more foundational.

Capitalism 1.0 wasn't built to last.
Today's crisis is one of institutions. That's institution not as in "organization," but institution as in rule to follow, or, better yet, ideal to strive for. The institutions, or ideals, at the heart of Capitalism 1.0 — exploitation, tyranny, domination, war, to name a few — are great if the economy's goal is to create the illusion of profit (hi, Wall Street). But they are toxic and self-destructive if its goal is to make people better off. Capitalism 1.0 is best at creating "thin" value — brittle, often illusory, and ultimately unsustainable value.

A new generation of revolutionaries is building a better kind of capitalism from the ground up: Constructive Capitalism.
Constructive capitalism is "better" in a tightly defined economic sense. It redefines the value equation at the heart of capitalism. It is built on a better economics that creates "thicker" value: value that's meaningful to humans — not just value that pumps up spreadsheets, computer models, and bonsues.

Like yesterday's revolutionaries ignited an industrial revolution, so today's revolutionaries are igniting an institutional revolution.
Today's revolutionaries have all discovered that in the 21st Century, innovation itself needs innovation. Today's most radical innovations aren't product, process, or even business model innovations: they are institutional innovations.

The last people to know about a revolution are usually the overthrown.
The institutional happening is hiding in plain sight: its happening right under your nose. Who are these new revolutionaries? Some of these are classic radical innovators: asymmetrical competitors like Threadless, Apple, and Google. But many of them are the unlikeliest of revolutionaries: Wal-Mart, Nike, and Starbucks, to name just a few. Yet, all have one thing in common: they are working away quietly, patiently, yet disruptively: to reconceive a better kind of economics from the ground up.

Strategy 2.0 is about learning to play by the rules of "Constructive Capitalism." Want to master 21st Century economics? Then ask yourself: what good, today, is mere cost advantage, differentiation, or value chain control? For Target, Motorola, and Microsoft, respectively, the answer is: no good at all. In contrast, as today's radical innovators reinvent better economics built on more valuable ideals, they are discovering fresh, new, often explosive sources of advantage — which differ radically from yesterday's tired and tapped-out sources of advantage.

How can you start playing by the rules of a better kind of capitalism? My rules are detailed in two presentations here and here. They're not the only rules, or even the best rules — but they are a starting point for exploring a more authentic kind of value creation.

Carrotmob am 13 Juni in Berlin

2009-06-09T08:04:44+02:00

Basierend auf dem erfolgreichen Vorbild aus San Francisco starten die Jungs und Mädels von Ecofashionjunkies den ersten Carrotmob in Berlin. Wenn Ihr wissen wollt wie`s funktioniert schaut Euch doch einfach den Video an. Alles Gute wünscht Euch das gesamte Team von Goodtruebeautiful

May 14th, 2009 LVMH partners with ethical fashion pioneer Edun

2009-05-15T18:51:36+02:00

Congratulation to all our frineds + partners at EDUN . This couldbe a big step for Ethical Fashion

RIS, May 14 (Reuters) - LVMH is to take a minority stake in Edun, the ecological and ethical fashion start-up founded by Irish singer and campaigner Bono and his wife, the world's biggest luxury group said on Thursday.

Launched in 2005, Edun aims to promote sustainable development and fair trading by selling T-shirts and dresses in organic cotton made in countries such a India, Peru, Uganda, Kenya and Lesotho.

Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

"We are proud to contribute to the operational development of Edun and to the improvement of living standards of local communities," LVMH said in a statement.

The French group's other fashion brands include Celine, Kenzo, Donna Karan and Louis Vuitton.

Bono, whose real name is Paul Hewson, is the lead singer of the rock band U2 and a active humanitarian campaigner, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

"With LVMH, we can step up its (Edun's) development, giving greater stability to our suppliers and the local communities they support," Bono said in LVMH's statement.

Edun will maintain its headquarters in Dublin and a subsidiary in New York. Mark Weber, head of Donna Karan International, will supervise LVMH's investment for the French luxury group.

Wir sagen Nein zu Sandstrahlern!

2009-05-14T12:39:53+02:00

Wie der Spiegel berichtete, werden in der Türkei viele Denims unter gesundheitsgefährdenden Bedingungen gewaschen.

Die Denims von Kuyichi werden nicht mit Sandstrahlern behandelt! Die Kuyichi Jeans aus der Pure Denim Kollektion werden in Tunesien, die Jeans der Pure Premium Kollektion in Italien gewaschen. Die Denims werden nur per Hand mit Sandpapier behandelt. In seltenen Fällen wird mit speziellen Chemikalien gearbeitet. Dann aber ausschließlich in einem kontrollierten Umfeld (Vakuumkammern)und die überschüssigen Chemikalien werden recycelt.

Getränkesponsor gesucht

2009-04-26T15:00:36+02:00

Für unseren tollen Kuyichi Stand während der Bread+Butter in Berlin suchen wir einen Getränkesponsor fü. unsere Organic Bar. Organic Drinks wie Bier,Softdrinks usw.... auch kleine Snacks wären toll