Our partners
OTTO
The Otto Group is a well-known brand in the areas of fashion, furnishing and technics. It is essential for Otto to offer a wide range of eco-friendly and socially acceptable products and to work within sustainable criteria.
As early as the 1980s Otto has made environmental protection part of the company's strategy. Sustainability today is the basis of all business transactions.
In 2005 Dr. Michael Otto founded the Aid by Trade Foundation, which has several initiatives, one of them being "Cotton made in Africa". This supports the cultivation of cotton to make a contribution to the bettering of living conditions in Africa and to environmental protection.
Dr. Johannes Merck, Aid by Trade Foundation
Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) is an initiative of the Aid by Trade Foundation. The name of the foundation can be taken literally: It does not rely on charity, but on a long term market economy approach to aid – assistance through trade. Together with different partners from commerce, politics, science and NGOs the foundation makes a contribution to fighting poverty and protecting the environment in developing countries – in the case of Africa this is especially the case with the Cotton made in Africa initiative.
WSPA
The animal rights group WSPA takes a stand globally for the protection of animals – it has more than 1000 member organisations in 156 countries. WSPA is convinced that sustainable animal protection is only possible when you work together with the people. WSPA has achieved consultant status at the Council for the European Union and the United Nations.
www.wspa.de
NABU
Founded in 1899, NABU (NATURE AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION UNION), is one of the oldest and largest environment associations in Germany. The association encompasses more than 450,000 members and sponsors, who commit themselves to the conservation of threatened habitats, flora and fauna, to climate protection and energy policy. NABU`s main objectives are the preservation of habitats and biodiversity, the promotion of sustainability in agriculture, forest management and water supply and distribution, as well as to enhance the significance of nature conservation in our society.
About 30,000 volunteers play an active role in practical nature conservation work, with great success: this is something that is special to NABU. These active NABU members look after more than 110,000 hectares of valuable protected reserves in Germany. NABU also has volunteer groups working on an international level to conserve nature and combat poverty in Africa, Eurasia and the Caucasus.
Viva con Agua
Aside from the air we breathe, water is the most elementary foundation for life. Water first brings life into being, water is life. Water is synonymous with healthy and happy living. For Viva con Agua de Sankt Pauli this reality is the fundamental motivation to be proactive – to bring to fruition water projects around the globe allowing people access to clean water.
www.vivaconagua.org
BAUM
The short form B.A.U.M. (=tree) stands for Bundesdeutscher Arbeitskreis für Umweltbewusstes Management, which means a research and working group for ecologically sensitive management. Since 1984 B.A.U.M. has tackled ecologic, economic and social questions and issues. With over 500 members B.A.U.M. is the biggest economical initiative in Europe today. Besides many well known companies, also many associations and institutions are sustaining members and acknowledge the B.A.U.M. "code of honour".
BOS
BOS – the Borneo Orang-Utan Survival Foundation – is an Indonesian foundation which has taken it upon itself, together with the population of Indonesia, to protect the last surviving orang-utans and their natural environment. BOS Deutschland, a German registered foundation since 2001 is a non-profit association that has been particularly singled out for sponsorship for the work it is doing and supports the BOS Foundation projects from Germany.
www.bos-deutschland.de
ecogood
A lot of people want to help protect the climate but don’t exactly know how. Yet, the urgency to act is becoming more and more obvious. On average, every person in Germany produces 11t of CO2 a year in their everyday life – 9t more CO2 than the environment can handle.
This is exactly where the climate protection platform ecogood picks up. Founded in Berlin in 2010, ecogood supports people, as well as entire businesses, in leading a carbon neutral life. Because climate protection does not have to be expensive or time-consuming – the opposite is the case. With the help of ecogood you can save money while saving CO2.
10:10 Global
Since launching at the end of 2009, 10:10 Global has so far motivated over 110,000 families and individuals from over 180 countries to reduce their CO2 emissions by 10% every year. Also thousands of businesses, schools, universities and other organisations from Microsoft UK to mitfahrgelegenheit.de are taking part and coming together to provide a simple and easy solution to climate change. The first 10% reduction mainly involves making a few small positive changes that result in getting fitter and being healthier, eating better, saving money and making new friends. So start reducing today and sign up on the website to add your name to the growing list of participants!
www.1010global.org/uk
Die Klimaschützer
"Die Klimaschützer" (the environmetal preservers) is a social media campaign, which lauched in July 2009 for the website www.stromauskunft.de. On this website you can get information about topics according electricity. The campaign wants to win over as many people as possible to change to green power. The overall aim of "Die Klimaschützer" is to highten the awareness for the necessity of climate protection and to make a contribution to effective, sustainable climate protection.
www.stromauskunft.de/de/html/oekostrom/klimaschuetzer
eve
The customer magazine of the German health food market is publicised every second month in an edition of 490.000. Since 2002 "eve" has covered news and facts about organic farming, organic food, nature cosmetics and similar topics, which interest the health- and nature-concious customers.
natürlich
"natürlich" is a modern magazine for customers of health food shops. Since 2006 the magazine distributes monthly with about 500.000 copies. The focus of the magazine is on everything concerning the health oriented products of the health food shop, which has dedicated itself to organic quality in the last years. Also topics concerning nature protection and environmental conservation are part of "natürlich".
visitBerlin
visitBerlin has advertised the tourist services offered by the City State of Berlin worldwide since 1993. It is the service agency for congress and tourism partners in the various markets and an active information broker for the travel industry. visitBerlin also operates Berlin Tourist Information, which offers the complete tourist service spectrum to visitors to the capital. On this site you will find out more about our company vision and tasks and how we are organized. In addition, you will also find contact details, directions to us and details about our presence around the world.
Berlin Partner
Berlin Partner GmbH is the official business development agency and marketing office for the state of Berlin. We advise and assist investors in establishing operations in Berlin, and we focus on business retention once they’re here. For local companies, we answer questions about foreign trade and expanding in international markets. Berlin’s government has commissioned us to market our city, and as a public-private partnership, more than 170 companies support Berlin Partner in our work. We offer customized services - free of charge, and we follow a simple motto: "We enable growth."
The Solar Atlas, which has been integrated into a 3D model of Berlin, can be accessed online via the Business Location Center (BLC). It displays whether a particular roof is suitable for the installation of solar panels and how much solar power the panels could generate.
The Berlin Agency for Electromobility is jointly supported by Berlin Partner GmbH and TSB Innovationsagentur Berlin GmbH.
Further Information: www.berlin-partner.de, www.businesslocationcenter.de, www.emo-berlin.de.
