Cooking, cooking, cooking :)

Hey greeners, 

hopefully we can start our cooking sessions this year and we are planning to create our own cookery book! Now we are looking for recipes. After giving you some input on World Vegan Day it's your chance to make us some proposals. Send us your favourite recipes to jfksgoesgreen@googlemail.com ! 
After the first cooking session we'll post pictures, article and recipes on the blog. Sounds good, doesn't it?


Looking forward to get your favourite recipes :) 

Cool Green Sites

COOL GREEN LINKS

There's all this cool stuff out there sometimes it's hard to sieve through and find the best things! But here are some green things that I found especially cool.

Greenpeace(and how to get involved)

The official page: http://www.greenpeace.de/

Jugendgruppe Berlin:

http://www.greenpeace-jugend.de/

Treffzeiten:
jeden Freitag, 17 Uhr im Büro (außer in den Schulferien)
Ort des Treffens:
Chausseestraße 131 in 10115 Berlin-Mitte
Ansprechpartner und Kontakt:
Martha Vlasak martha (at) greenpeace-berlin.de, Nora Stognief nora.stognief (at) hotmail.de, Helena Rauch hele.rauch (at) weltfragen.de
Halli hallo,
wir sind die Berliner Greenpeace Jugend!
Wenn du Lust hast, dich mit interessierten Jugendlichen zwischen 14 und 19 Jahren aus ganz Berlin über aktuelle Themen auszutauschen und dich für die Umwelt zu engagieren bist du hier richtig. Wir organisieren unter anderem Demos, Straßentheater und Treffen mit anderen Greenpeace-Gruppen aus ganz Deutschland. Denn wir finden, dass gerade jetzt, wo die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels immer alarmierender werden, ist es Zeit, aktiv zu werden und die Leute aufmerksam zu machen. In der Vergangenheit haben wir zum Beispiel beim Karneval der Kulturen mitgewirkt, kleine Atomkraftwerke gebaut, die symbolisch aufgegessen wurden und sind zur Klimakonferenz in Kopenhagen gefahren.
Wir freuen uns immer sehr über neue Mitglieder. Also komm doch mal vorbei, um zusammen mit uns coole neue Aktionen auf die Beine zu stellen.
Wir freuen uns auf dich.
Bis Bald!
Wichtiger Hinweis: wenn Du Intersse hast in der Jugendgruppe mitzumachen, dann wende Dich bitte direkt an die Person unter "Ansprechpartner und Kontakt", damit gewährt ist, dass Du auch eine schnelle Antwort bekommst!

Demonstrations in Germany

http://anti-atom-demo.de/start/ablauf/berlin/

Ablauf am 28. Mai

Auftakt: ab 11 Uhr, Sammeln am Roten Rathaus, Infostände

Demonstration: 12 Uhr, Start 

Route: Spandauer Straße – Karl-Liebknecht-Straße – Unter den Linden – Neustädtische Kirchstraße – Dorotheenstraße – Scheidemannstraße (direkt vorbei am Bundestag) – Yitzhak-Rabin-Straße – Straße des 17. Juni – Hofjägerallee – Klingelhöferstraße

Abschlusskundgebung: 14 Uhr, vor der Bundesgeschäftsstelle der CDU, Konrad-Adenauer-Haus, Klingelhöferstraße (U-Bahnhof Wittenbergplatz)

Programm: Moderation: Jutta Sundermann und Daniel Unsöld

RednerInnen:

·         Akiko Yoshida (Friends of the Earth Japan)

·         Hermann Albers (Bundesverband Windenergie, BWE)

·         Ulrike Mehl (Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland, BUND)

·         Olivier Höbel (IG Metall)

·         Hans-Gerd Marian (Naturfreunde Deutschlands)

http://www.bund.net/themen_und_projekte/landwirtschaft/lebensmittelpolitik/demo_wir_haben_es_satt/

Wir fordern von Bundeskanzlerin Merkel:

• Subventionen an soziale, ökologische und Tierschutz-Kriterien binden
• Faire Regeln durchsetzen statt Agrarmärkte liberalisieren
• Heimisches Futter statt Gentechnik-Soja fördern
• Spekulationen mit Lebensmitteln beenden
• Exportsubventionen stoppen
• Der Fleischindustrie den Geldhahn abdrehen
• Wir schätzen die tägliche Arbeit der Menschen auf den Bauernhöfen. Sie müssen im Zentrum einer Reform stehen!

Daher gehen am 21. Januar 2012 VerbraucherInnen, TierschützerInnen, UmweltschützerInnen, ImkerInnen, Bäuerinnen und Bauern gemeinsam auf die Straße.

Informationen und Materialien zur Mobilisierung, zur Busorganisation sowie zur Demo selbst folgen in Kürze.

FAIR TRADE Sites

Official site: http://www.fairtrade.de/index.php/mID/1/lan/de

Really cool fair trade fashion: http://www.fair4you-online.de/index.php/sID/a28d38ce1591242c8b11b96cc9416d30/lan/de

Jugendgruppe Fairtrade: http://www.fair4you-online.de/index.php/sID/a28d38ce1591242c8b11b96cc9416d30/lan/de

JOBBING

fairtrade jobs

http://www.fairjobbing.dewww.fairjobbing.de/index.php/FairJobbing;133

Very AWESOME movie!

http://www.4-revolution.de/

Happy World Vegan Day :D

Hey guys, 

today is the World Vegan Day.

Vegan means to live without animal products such as food and clothes, but this doesn’t mean to eliminate fun, fashion and good food! Why don’t you try out some vegan recipes? There are some really good vegan dishes. Check them out! 

http://www.peta2.de/de/rezept.1061.html  Uses seasonal products like pumpkin which is environmentally friendly.

http://www.veganvillage.co.uk/recipes/broccoli.htm Again a seasonal soup with broccoli J

http://www.peta2.de/de/johannisbeermuffin.1013.html  Awesome muffins with cute pink icing <3 And the best thing – no artificial food colouring!

Not enough time to cook? Not feeling like cooking? Well, that’s no problem either. In Berlin we have a wide range of vegetarian and vegan snack bars and restaurants. 

http://www.mamo-falafel.com/

http://www.cupcakeberlin.de/ Best cupcakes I’ve ever eaten! <3

http://www.viasko.de/ My birthday dinner at Viasko tasted awesome. Even my flesh-adoring family like their dishes. 

For further information, more recipes and stuff to get active, visit http://www.peta2.org or type in “vegan” at http://www.ecosia.org

 

Happy World Vegan Day :)

Kochen! Cooking!

So...

Vegan, environmental cooking! Most people think this would mean no fun and no taste. But if you've never tried it, will you ever know? Our group has decided to tackle this very important side of sustainability. It is a common fact that in the new era of globlization, it is normal to eat food that has travelled half the globe. But is that truly healthy? And is it even profitable, for us and for the environment?
Many studies and magazine articles indicate the exact opposite. Just like with clothes, the price on the label may, at a first glance, seem cheaper. But when one looks closer at the impact this product has on the environment that will have to payed by us in the long run, anyway (poisoned water from factory fed to large rivers that destroy the fish population for example, which we then have to clean and live with) and the slave-like conditions of the workers who made the shirts, it becomes clear just how much higher the price actually is. And not to forget the common rule of quantity over quality, which pretty much applies to anything you buy.
Thus, starting to buy local vegetables and fruits from neighboring farms or markets will not only help your tight budget, but help the environment too! And if you're too lazy to go out and cycle to the farm yourself, you can always get it brought right up to your front doorstep in a so called "farm delivery service". This means that they bring you a box of their harvests each month and give you recipes and tips on how to cook them. It is definitely a good way to find out about local vegetables, many of which less and less people know of!
Have you perked up yet? Feel like starting your own "cooking group" that finds out how to cook environmentally? This is how we will do it:
We'll meet around 1 time per month. The place is still undecided. It can be practically anywhere as long as there's a kitchen to cook in and a table to eat on! Of course, you can always go the long way and take a camp cooker and try cooking in the middle of nowhere. definitely an experience. The idea is to shop together, to cook, and then of course everyone can join in to eat! We would probably need to each pay 2 euro for the shopping per month. After a few times, we will start putting recipes together and make our own environmental cooking book.

This is a perfect example of a great recipe and project to make aware how important food is and where it comes from!

http://www.1010global.org/med/low-carbon-and-delicious

Green Day This Year

Last year, we made an awesome one day event called "green day" to make the school aware of environmental topics and advertise our group and what we do. This year, we want to continue with such a successful day. Unlike last year, where the day consisted of presentations in the school aula and the selling of T shirts, we want to add a musical side to the day and have booths outside that relate to our theme of saving the environment, such as the organization "Weltwaerts"http://www.weltwaerts.de/index.html
and Ashoka, an organization that helped us create our own projects. Germany:http://germany.ashoka.org/

or Universal: http://www.ashoka.org/
Furthermore, this year's event will focus on not only bringing out the green spirit in the JFK School Community, but also reaching out to individuals and give them a chance to find ways they personally can make a change in the environment.
The day itself will be held on the 15th of June during the school day so that the event itself is mandatory for all students to attend.
Green Day will be bigger (we're including the Elementary School and the Droste Schule, plus all interested parents) and better- let's hope to make it a great success!

Our Green Tshirts

These are many of our Tshirt designs we have made in the past few years. Please contact us if you want to buy one of our tshirts. They are made out of  Bio cotton have been co2 neutrally produced. this means that for every carbon released into the atmosphere through transport and production, the company that makes the tshirts plants trees to make up for it. Pretty cool, huh?

If you have any green suggestions, leave your comments here!
green love <3