GreenGraffiti® on the Blog

Ecolution

2010-08-25T15:14:00.000+02:00

Dutch multitalent Wubbe Ockels, physicist, astronaut, pilot and professor can add a new profession to his endless list. Since 16 July, Ockels is the proud captain of the Ecolution, the first boat that realizes sustainability. The driving force for life on board of the smooth shaped silver boat is simply wind power. Huge propellers drive the generators while the sails

wink wink, nudge nudge

2010-08-23T15:34:00.000+02:00

Sign up and put yourself on the map New Union for the Development of a Green Economy, ore just nudge in literal terms “a gentle push’’ is the latest Dutch social venture: An initiative to unite al consumers of the Netherlands, and create a sustainable consumers platform via their website. Power of the mass is the rule here. Let’s connect now and grow our potential

Protest Art Gets Environmental

2010-08-03T12:54:00.000+02:00

Artists are like-minded: Environmental graffiti can be an efficient and eco-friendly way to spread a message. Think of all of the paper saved! Around the world, from Mexico City to Australia, New York to Scotland, artists have taken their message to the streets to advocate for the environment. They illustrated current environmental concerns; each artist in a different way.

Growing out of our shell

2010-07-21T16:26:00.001+02:00

Is that office getting smaller or ar we growing to big? For those of you who have visited us in the Westerstraat, you might have noticed that, however very cosy, the place was becoming a little too small to host us al. The Westerstraat has served us well in those beginning years, but just like you might have experienced with your favourite jacket you bought in your skinny teenager years, at a

10:10 global

2010-07-12T15:06:00.000+02:00

It seems like a hard task to accomplish, reducing your co2 emission by 10%. But there’s a new approach that makes it fairly easy to do so! What is it? It’s an ambitious project, an initiative of 1010 global, to unite every sector of society, people and organisations, to gather behind the plan to cut back our emissions with 10% in 2010. The idea is simple: When you have a big task to

City Beautification

2010-06-29T12:19:00.000+02:00

Finally. After a long cold winter summer has arrived in the city. People are slowly waking up from a deep hibernate. It seems everyone is relaxing in our city parks, on the beach or on a terrace, enjoying a cold bear ore a lovely rose wine. The initially leafless trees and flowers are blossoming in the sun, soaking up the light and offering their goods to the little

Orange fever replaces Green fever

2010-06-14T16:05:00.001+02:00

There’s no doubt about it: Running a business of your own means hard work and mostly on times when other people enjoy a free day. But today was an exception. Our little office is (for now but moving to a bigger place soon!) located on one of the busiest streets of Amsterdam, with tons of café’s and bars surrounding our humble office. With the start of the World Cup, it was already getting even

Don't shoot the messenger!

2010-06-08T14:45:00.001+02:00

The elections are coming up and I have to say that this year competition is fierce. While in previous years the elections where centred on interesting debates, discussions and focused on themes with respect to political content, the political campaigns of 2010 are starting to get a little shady. Today it’s al about one-liners and the reputation of politicians are as shaky as leaves in the

The Young Talent Event 2010

2010-05-25T11:13:00.000+02:00

The 20th of May: The town of Maarssen had a different vibe to it then usual. A swarm of over three hundred young, enthusiastic, innovative people came to the second edition of the MVO (sustainable entrepreneurship) young talent event to share their knowledge, present ideas and suck up some knowledge. The event offers a platform for people to get together, and get connected. Interesting guest

Garbage takes over the sidewalks of Amsterdam

2010-05-11T11:46:00.003+02:00

The strike of unsatisfied garbage men and cleaning staff is continuing till next Wednesday. They have collectively put down all their work and are demanding an improvement of labour conditions from the government. Their call for action didn’t stay unnoticed and has left the streets non-swept and covered with massive piles of garbage reaching heights of two meters. Our dirt is literally growing

Over half a million Euros’ for children suffering from a muscle disease!

2010-04-28T15:15:00.000+02:00

Friday the 23 of April the sixth edition of the “Spieren voor Spieren” (“Muscles for Muscles”) gala took over the Van Nelle design factory in Rotterdam. The foundation focuses on fund-raising and their main motto is “To let healthy muscles help the non-healthy ones”. The Foundation is supported by many sport professionals; amongst them the greatest of greatest such as Louis van Gaal. The revenue

Mayor shows GreenGraffiti® his skills

2010-04-22T10:48:00.002+02:00

14th of April. A notorious day for GreenGraffiti®. While we are still operating in a grey area, reverse graffiti isn't illegal but at the same time there are no rules for what we do, municipalities are becoming our biggest clients. While some municipalities are not in favour of GreenGraffiti® and don't feel the need to open up a discussion or let us enter their towns, others are fans and

We Are Running For Water!

2010-04-15T10:11:00.000+02:00

Our team has worked very hard for the last couple of months turning our private water compensation program GreenAdsBlue into a certified Foundation. Finally on World Water Day, it all came together. Our dream became reality, our Foundation was a fact. Accompanied with a beautiful website, a facebook, hyves and a twitter page! Since we are a company that believes deeply in the "bigger picture" we

Biodiversity; We are all in this together

2010-03-30T14:18:00.001+02:00

2010 is called the year of biodiversity. Therefore the European Union is launching a campaign to promote awareness amongst citizens and countries and to emphasize the importance of maintaining it. Why is biodiversity so important? Well, nature, in all its beautiful ways, is the foundation of life and we are all connected to each other in some way. The bee pollinates our flowers, the tree-root

Press, press, stress.....

2010-03-11T13:22:00.002+01:00

Lately we have been so busy in here. Our little office is getting very crowded, more colleagues have joined us, there are many jobs to do and since GreenGraffiti® exists for a while now, we are getting more attention and press.Being so busy it happens that we don’t look at all the mail we are getting in the office, selecting the most important ones. We found out that that isn’t the smartest thing

Clean Drinks

2010-03-04T11:51:00.004+01:00

Clean Drinks is a network community for people working in the field of sustainability. By bringing al these people together the aim is to make it easier to create a better world together.We where invited to promote and come to this event and present our business together with other green companies in the Netherlands as, Stoere Vrouwen, Remotion and the 1% club.The night started of in the

Oh yes we did.

2010-02-24T15:39:00.004+01:00

The latest campaign of our partner overseas is definitely worth to mention as they worked together with Dominos during the widely known Super Bowl!For us Dutchies the Super Bowl is not a big deal. Frankly I only new about it because I saw an Ace Ventura film once when I was younger in which the mascot of a team, I believe it was a Dolphin, was stolen.In America however, the Super Bowl is a huge

The Valentine Peace Project

2010-02-09T15:36:00.005+01:00

Love. When you think about love, a lot of things can cross your mind: What do you know about love, have you experienced true love yourself or what does love mean in our life’s today?In a society that becomes more and more individualistic, where narcissism becomes more common than philanthropy, what can we know about true love?The legend of Valentines Day tells us that in ancient times, soldiers

The wonderful winning works

2010-02-02T11:47:00.008+01:00

Last December, when the winter was just getting started, we executed a project for the Toneelmakerij to promote the theatre play Kees de jongen. Just to refresh your memories Kees de jongen is a theatre play based on a famous Dutch book for children about a poor boy, Kees, who had a very vivid fantasy and sees the world in a very playful way.In addition, besides promoting the play, we worked

Art and Advertising

2010-01-20T12:16:00.018+01:00

Some state that art is closely linked to advertising. This relationship can work both ways, one inspiring the other, or the other way around.While it’s fairly new to be green in advertising, street artist have been eco-minded for a longer period of time. Reverse graffiti has been around for more than eighty years and has developed from writing simple statements on cars like “wash me” to creating

GreenGraffiti looks back on the year 2009

2010-01-12T11:41:00.009+01:00

Dear GreenGraffiti® followers,After a short Christmas break, to reload our batteries, we are back on track starting the New Year by looking back on the past and making an evaluation of our year.Luckily we can look back on 2009 as a highly productive year. GreenGraffiti® has grown tremendously from a small start up, to doing over sixty campaigns in year one. We have executed campaigns throughout

Greengraffiti on the blog

2009-12-15T15:24:00.007+01:00

Welcome to our blog everyone!Let me first introduce you to our company GreenGraffiti®. GreenGraffiti® is an environmentally friendly form of outdoor advertising with a clear message; clean is green. GreenGraffiti® is completely carbon neutral, is one of the first companies in the world to compensate for our water footprint and contributes in a unique way to a healthier environment. That is why we