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  • [:de]Live Video Chat mit Das Baumhaus Berlin Gründer :: So, 31 Juli um 19:00 GMT+2[:en]Live Video Chat with The Founders of Das Baumhaus Berlin :: Sun, July 31, 7:00 PM GMT+2[:]

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    Berlin, Karen Wohlert und Scott Bolden wollen in einem Atelier einen Nachbarschaftstreff einrichten. eine Geschichte ¸ber
    Berlin, Karen Wohlert und Scott Bolden wollen in einem Atelier einen Nachbarschaftstreff einrichten. eine Geschichte ¸ber “Das Baumhaus”, eine Kiezinitiative im Wedding. In der Gerichstrafle 23, gegen¸ber vom Stattbad Wedding
    Foto: Kai-Uwe Heinrich

    Habt ihr Fragen und wollt mehr wissen über das Baumhaus und den Stand der Dinge?

    Wir laden euch herzlich zu einem Google Video Hangout ein, am Sonntag den 31. Juli um 19 Uhr. Karen und Scott, die Mitgründer vom Baumhausprojekt, werden ein bißchen etwas über das Projekt erzählen und eure Fragen beantworten. Wenn ihr dann keine Zeit habt, könnt ihr uns auch vorher Fragen schreiben und das Gespräch später ansehen. Über diesen Link könnt ihr am Hangout teilnehmen. Und natürlich könnt ihr uns auch einfach per Email kontaktieren, oder Donnerstag nachmittags zur ‘open office hour’ bei uns auf der Baustelle vorbeischauen…

    Danke,

    Karen & Scott & The Entire Baumhaus Team[:en]

    Berlin, Karen Wohlert und Scott Bolden wollen in einem Atelier einen Nachbarschaftstreff einrichten. eine Geschichte ¸ber
    Berlin, Karen Wohlert und Scott Bolden wollen in einem Atelier einen Nachbarschaftstreff einrichten. eine Geschichte ¸ber “Das Baumhaus”, eine Kiezinitiative im Wedding. In der Gerichstrafle 23, gegen¸ber vom Stattbad Wedding
    Foto: Kai-Uwe Heinrich

    This will be a 1 hour live video hangout where the founders of Das Baumhaus Berlin, Karen Wohlert and Scott Bolden will give a short introduction to the project and then spend the rest of the time answering your questions. Questions can be asked and answered in german or english live by video chat or text.

    —>  Here is the link to join the video chat  <—

    You can also send questions in english or german to: baumhausberlin@gmail.com before the hangout

    Why We Are Doing This…

    We want to make sure people understand what we are doing with the project, how it works and why we need support for our crowd-funding campaign ending on August 9, 2016. We have a friend who will contribute 7.500€ if we can raise that much more by August 9 so that we meet our funding threshold and get the money! That means we just have to raise a bit under 5.000€ until August 9!

    This video chat will be recorded and posted for later viewing.

    Thanks,

    Karen & Scott & The Entire Baumhaus Team[:]

  • A Vision Worth Making Happen! Updates, News and Action…

    [:de]The Baumhaus grand opening will be on the weekend of September 23-25 as a part of our Annual Emergent Berlin Festival.

    In June, we built the engineering prototype, documented it and unbuilt it so we can get it approved and rebuilt in January.

    We can ONLY realize this with YOUR HELP. We need to get at least 15.000€ through our crowd-funding to make this happen. Please chip in 5€, the price of 2 beers, or almost a trip there and back on the U-Bahn… What is it worth to you to help us create a space we can all use everyday to make the world a better place.

    EN https://www.startnext.com/en/baumhausberlin
    DE https://www.startnext.com/baumhausberlin

    We have done all we can do… now we need your help to reach our goal until AUGUST 9!

    Please ask your friends and family to contribute adn if they need convincing show them our short 2 min film “It’s Not Too Late…”:


    In the meantime, here is what else got done:

    • The sound-proof ceiling finsihed being installed

    • We prototyped our upcycled magnetic clay wall concept

    • We had our 7th Vertical and Permaculture garden meeting focussing on Vermiculture, making fertile soil with worms and compost. next meeting is 27.07 on plant selection.

    • Pop Chor Berlin did a rehearsal and recorded our theme song plus a new one we improvised together. Next improv singing event is 04.08.

    • Every week, we got a delivery form our local bio-farmer as part of our neighborhood CSA group.

    • On the same day, Radio Eins broadcasted live from the Baumhaus all day, while we worked on design details for the bar and bathrooms. Later that evening we had our Soli-party with Dr. Alex Paterson form the Orb. We listen to his set while we work. Dr Alex will come back on Sept 24th and play our grand openign party at Panke e.V. in our building! LISTEN TO OUR INTERVIEW HERE (auf Deutsche!):

    • We made good progress tiling the floors in the kitchen and toilet rooms.

    • We hosted an event with Silke Gebel from the Green Party of Berlin and our partners Himmelbeet community garden and Wedding Wandler (local transition town network) about how to make our neighborhood ‘Zero Waste’ .

    • We also hosted a hack-a-thon with our lighting team and several other participants as part of the Tech Open Air fetstival. We designed our manufacturing process for floor sensors that we will build, we defined some lighting scenarios for our sentient lighting, we prototyped the lighting for our glass mosaic art work and we installed the new wireless controller into the Orchid Lamp.

    • Hilke brought by more rescued food to add to what we got from The Real Junk food Project so we can feed our volunteers healthy food.


    Join In to help build the space and the program THIS and the NEXT WEEKS:

    http://www.baumhausberlin.de/en/building/mitbauen/

    We will be:

    Doing design work on the bar, building the interior of the kitchen, doing design work on the back room and planning mosaic work… Plus a whole lot more!

    p.s. FLUX fm will be here during the day Weds 27.07.2016 from 9:30 until 11:00 in the morning to check us out, do interviews with our helpers and do a story on our crowd-funding![:en]The Baumhaus grand opening will be on the weekend of September 23-25 as a part of our Annual Emergent Berlin Festival.

    In June, we built the engineering prototype, documented it and unbuilt it so we can get it approved and rebuilt in January.

    We can ONLY realize this with YOUR HELP. We need to get at least 15.000€ through our crowd-funding to make this happen. Please chip in 5€, the price of 2 beers, or almost a trip there and back on the U-Bahn… What is it worth to you to help us create a space we can all use everyday to make the world a better place.

    EN https://www.startnext.com/en/baumhausberlin
    DE https://www.startnext.com/baumhausberlin

    We have done all we can do… now we need your help to reach our goal until AUGUST 9!

    Please ask your friends and family to contribute adn if they need convincing show them our short 2 min film “It’s Not Too Late…”:

    In the meantime, here is what else got done:

    • The sound-proof ceiling finsihed being installed

    • We prototyped our upcycled magnetic clay wall concept

    • We had our 7th Vertical and Permaculture garden meeting focussing on Vermiculture, making fertile soil with worms and compost. next meeting is 27.07 on plant selection.

    • Pop Chor Berlin did a rehearsal and recorded our theme song plus a new one we improvised together. Next improv singing event is 04.08.

    • Every week, we got a delivery form our local bio-farmer as part of our neighborhood CSA group.

    • On the same day, Radio Eins broadcasted live from the Baumhaus all day, while we worked on design details for the bar and bathrooms. Later that evening we had our Soli-party with Dr. Alex Paterson form the Orb. We listen to his set while we work. Dr Alex will come back on Sept 24th and play our grand openign party at Panke e.V. in our building! LISTEN TO OUR INTERVIEW HERE (auf Deutsche!):

    • We made good progress tiling the floors in the kitchen and toilet rooms.

    • We hosted an event with Silke Gebel from the Green Party of Berlin and our partners Himmelbeet community garden and Wedding Wandler (local transition town network) about how to make our neighborhood ‘Zero Waste’ .

    • We also hosted a hack-a-thon with our lighting team and several other participants as part of the Tech Open Air fetstival. We designed our manufacturing process for floor sensors that we will build, we defined some lighting scenarios for our sentient lighting, we prototyped the lighting for our glass mosaic art work and we installed the new wireless controller into the Orchid Lamp.

    • Hilke brought by more rescued food to add to what we got from The Real Junk food Project so we can feed our volunteers healthy food.

    Join In to help build the space and the program THIS and the NEXT WEEKS:

    http://www.baumhausberlin.de/en/building/mitbauen/

    We will be:

    Doing design work on the bar, building the interior of the kitchen, doing design work on the back room and planning mosaic work… Plus a whole lot more!

    p.s. FLUX fm will be here during the day Weds 27.07.2016 from 9:30 until 11:00 in the morning to check us out, do interviews with our helpers and do a story on our crowd-funding![:]

  • Tech Open Air Fest :: Sentient Lighting an Indoor Tree House & Other Fun

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    When: Friday 15.07.16 13:00 – 19:00

    Where: Baumhaus Berlin, Gerichtstrasse 23, 13347 Berlin

    Price: FREE

    We are developing various different lighting installations for Das Baumhaus that will be reactive to visitors of the space as well as pre-programable and manual options. All the installations will communicate with each other via bluetooth and be triggered by sensors in the floor and the locations.

    We are looking for hackers, designers, engineers, builders, makers and artists who would like to participate in a day long hack-a-thon to help develop some more installations.

    Some of the lighting projects we are working on will be installed in the Baumhaus when it opens September 23, 2016.  Other installations will be continuously installed over the next year.  Participants in this workshop are invited to join our all volunteer lighting team to develop new lighting installations and products.  There are also many other different ways to join the general Baumhaus project…

    Current lighting projects include

    • Orchid Lamp – one is done, 2 more are planned (aesthetic design, building, programming)

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    • Achiele Flower Lamp – Still needs programming

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    • Isaac Abrams sandblasted glass panels – Building the frame and lighting it

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    Please let us know to expect you by booking FREE ticket on eventbrite.

    This event is part of Tech Open Air festival. To learn more about TOA16 and book your conference tickets, visit toa.berlin.

  • [:de]Interview mit Sozialunternehmer und Aktivist Daniel Hires[:en]An interview with social entrepreneur and activist Daniel Hires[:]

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    Als Teil des letzten Anstoßes für unsere Crowdfunding-Kampagne haben wir ein paar besondere neue Gegenleistungen zu unserer startnext Seite hinzugefügt. Daniel Hires, ein Sozialunternehmer, Aktivist und langjähriger Baumhaus-Unterstützer bietet auch einige sehr spannende Preise an.

    In diesem Interview teilt Daniel uns mit, wie wir mit dem Baumhaus-Projekt eine bessere Welt ermöglichen könnten und weshalb Leute uns unterstützen sollten.

    HIER könnt ihr uns bis zum 17. Juli unterstützen!

    Es ist nicht zu spät…

    #ItsNotTooLate

    http://climateparade.org

    http://germany.makesense.org

    http://www.projecthires.com[:en]As part of our final push we have added some special new rewards to our crowdfunding featuring some nice offerings from social entrepreneur and activist Daniel Hires who has supported the Baumhaus from early on.

    We sat down with him to share some of his thoughts on how to make the world a better place through Das Baumhaus and why he thinks people should support us!

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  • [:de]Ein kurzes Interview mit Bündnis 90/Grüne Abgeordnete Silke Gebel[:en]A short Interview with Green-Party MP Silke Gebel [:]

    [:de]Ein kleines aber feines Interview zum Baumhaus Projekt mit Silke Gebel, umweltpolitische Sprecherin Bündnis 90/Grüne im Abgeordnetenhaus von Berlin.

    Teilt ihr Silkes Meinung über das Projekt? Dann freuen wir uns über jede Spende zu unserer Crowdfunding-Kampagne. Wir haben nur noch ein paar Tage um am 17. Juli unser Ziel zu erreichen.

    [:en]Here is a short yet sweet interview about the Baumhaus project with Silke Gebel,  a member of the Berlin parliament for the Green party and speaker for environmental policy.

    Do you agree with Silke? If so, please support our crowdfunding campaign. We have until the 17th July to reach our goal!

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  • [:de]Es gibt jetzt Baumhaus T-shirts![:en]We now have Baumhaus T-shirts![:]

    [:de]Schaut euch unsere neuen, schicken Baumhaus T-Shirts an! Die fair-gehandelten Baumwoll-T-Shirts stehen denjenigen Helden, die uns in den letzten Tagen unsere Crowdfunding-Kampagne unterstützen, zur Verfügung! Zur Auswahl gibt es diese vier Farben oder ihr könnt euch eine andere beliebige Farbe auswählen.

    Die schöne Baumhaus-Grafik hat uns Susan Sanford designt und gespendet.

    13613231_944878025625104_4030382787237408122_o[:en]Check out these groovy fair-trade cotton Baumhaus T-shirts, available to all heroes donating to our crowdfunding campaign in the last days! Choose from one of these four colours, or any other of your choice.

    Beautiful Baumhaus artwork designed and donated by Susan Sanford

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  • [:de]Wir erscheinen im aktuellen Heft vom Tip![:en]We are in the latest issue of Tip![:]

    [:de]Schaut euch hier die schöne Tip-Story  ‘Drehkreuze in die Stadt’ von unserer Baumhaus Projektmanagerin Anna-Marie Nehl an!

    IMG_5364[:en]Check out this great Tip article (in German) about hubs for social change in Berlin, written by our very own project manager, Anna-Marie Nehl!

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  • [:de]Radio Eins @ Das Baumhaus [:en]Radio Eins @ Das Baumhaus[:]

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    Am vergangenen Freitag berichtete Radio Eins live den ganzen Tag über von der Gerichtstrasse, direkt vor dem Baumhausraum, als Teil ihres Programms ‘Die Schöne Straße’. Hier könnt ihr ein nettes Interview zu unserem Projekt mit Mitgründer Scott Bolden und der freiwilligen Helferin Luise Graeff hören.

    [:en]Last Friday, Radio Eins broadcast live all day long from right in front of Das Baumhaus – they had chosen Gerichtstrasse as their latest most exciting street in Berlin for their ‘Schöne Straße’ programme. Listen to a lovely interview (in German) with Baumhaus Co-Founder Scott Bolden and volunteer Luise Graeff about the project here.

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  • 14.07.16 :: Wie kommen wir weiter mit “Zero Waste” in Berlin und unserer Nachbarschaft?

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    Wo: himmelbeet, Ruheplatzstr. 12, 13347 Berlin

    Wann: Donnerstag 14.07.16 – 19.30 – 21.00

    Wie “Zero Waste” können wir leben? Was können wir im Wedding als Teil der Nachbarschaft und Zivilgesellschaft machen? Welche Rahmenbedingungen muss die Politik im Land setzen, um Berlins Müllberg zu reduzieren?

    WeddingWandler, Baumhaus und die beiden grünen Landespolitikerinnen Antje Kapek (Fraktionsvorsitzende) und Silke Gebel (umweltpolitische Sprecherin) laden ein zum Austausch und Brainstorming ins sommerliche himmelbeet Low Waste Café. Wissende, Engagierte und Interessierte sind herzlich willkommen!

    Als Input wird Silke Gebel ihre Thesen zu Zero Waste in Berlin vorstellen, und über den Stand der Dinge und mögliche Ansatzpunkte in Berlin informieren. WeddingWandler und Baumhaus engagieren sich zum Thema Zero Waste in ihrer Nachbarschaft. Nachdem sie gemeinsam mit dem himmelbeet den EU-Award für ihren Beitrag zur Europäischen Woche der Abfallvermeidung gewonnen haben, soll es jetzt weitergehen. Auf der Veranstaltung wollen sie ihre neue lokale Zero Waste Initiative vorstellen, diskutieren und Ideen sammeln.

    **** Hintergrundinfo: Zero Waste für Berlin *****

    In Berliner Privathaushalten laden jährlich mehr als 800.000 Tonnen Siedlungsabfälle in den Tonnen. 70% davon werden verbrannt und nur energetisch genutzt. Bei jeder Verpackung, die im Mülleimer landet, geht Energie verloren, Ressourcen werden verbraucht und die Umwelt belastet. Zero Waste ist das Konzept der Abfallvermeidung – Ressourcen werden werden wiederverwendet und möglichst geschlossene Kreisläufe geschaffen.

    Zero Waste für eine Stadt mit 3,5 Millionen Einwohner*innen, das klingt nach einer verrückten Idee. Aber Schritte zu Zero Waste wären durchaus gangbar. Warum zum Beispiel gibt es kein Mehrwegsystem für Coffee-To-Go-Becher á la Festivalbecher, was vom Land unterstützt wird? Und warum werden Alt-Elektrogeräte auf den Wertstoffhöfen direkt verschrottet und keinem Funktionstest unterzogen?

    Zero Waste ist in erster Linie Abfallvermeidung, denn der beste Abfall ist der, der gar nicht erst anfällt. Und es ist sogar europäische und deutsche Gesetzgebung mit der sogenannten Abfallhierarchie, nach der die Vermeidung der Abfälle oberste Priorität, gefolgt von Weiternutzung und Recycling hat. Erst dann ist die Verbrennung mit einem hohen Heizwert gestattet. Letztere Regelung wird wohl demnächst gekippt werden, Recyclingunternehmen und Umweltverbände hatten auf Einhaltung der Abfallhierarchie geklagt und moniert, dass zu viel Müll verbrannt wird.

    Denn so sieht es auch in der Berliner Realität aus: Der Haus- und Gewerbemüll wird verbrannt. Für einen kurzen Moment wird zwar Energie erzeugt, langfristig wird aber vor allem die „Ressource Kunststoff“ zerstört, für deren Herstellung Erdöl genutzt wird. Hier ist die aktuelle Abfallbilanz des Landes Berlin aus dem Jahr 2014.

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  • [:en]Volunteers At The Heart of The Project[:]

    [:en]VIDEO (German language with english sub titles)

    The Power of Volunteers! We still need your help!

    Meet Sascha, a warm-hearted regular guy who has helped the project on and off for more than a year now. The vast majority of what has been done around the Baumhaus has been done by volunteers. Over 125 volunteer hours on average each week helping with everything from designing, building, developing event programming, cooking, documenting in text, video and imagery!

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    New people are always welcome sign up here to help out this coming week (KW 28) July 11 – July 15
    http://doodle.com/poll/i2cf294gm469k3hs

    (let us know if you can only make it on the weekends so we can plan some special sessions)

    This week, kitchen & bathroom floor tiles will get installed by Yehea Ahmed, a tile expert from Syria who we can learn from. +

    MON

    • shopping for tile glue and supplies
    • clearing up space in kitchen and baths
    • front walls clear for electrician
    • drawing and sketching ideas for bar and back room
    • KLAUS – bike repair from 5 until 7 & an introduction to his building peace course at 8

    TUES (BIG DAY – We need LOTS of HELPERS)

    • we need a group of 10 people go to the Stattbad at 10 in the morning to gather tiles, wood, sinks, door hinges and other cool stuff
    • someone from FLUX fm will be here to record some interviews and short statements to be edited together for a crowd-funding push story they will broadcast this Thursday
    • the electrician will start installing cables in the front of the main room starting early
    • Frank the architect will be here at 1
    • Yehea Ahmad, our Syrian tile expert will start installing tiles in the kitchen and be finished with everything before the next Monday
    • Baumhaus Solidarity Küfa with Wedding Wandler at 7pm, bring food and drinks to share
    WEDS (we need people help pick up and spread our postcards and the good word on social media during our last week of crowd-funding all week long!)

    Chip in 5 to keep the dream alive!
    https://www.startnext.com/en/baumhausberlin

    • continue helping Yehea with the tiling all week
    • the changer hangout + other events

    THURS (work all day, work/play all evening)

    Our collaborative Zero waste event at Himmelbeet community Garden from 3 until 7
    • Open office hours at Baumhaus from 7 until

    FRIDAY (work all day, work/play all evening)

    • On Friday from 2-7 we have invited people to come by to help with lighting installations then chill as part of this year’s Tech Open Air event.

    http://www.eventbrite.com/e/sentient-lighting-an-indoor-tre…

    NO TICKET NECCESARY

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    SIGN UP TO HELP KW 29 (July 18 – July 22)
    http://doodle.com/poll/fqewbzef3x85fg2r

    • wood mosaic, lots of sanding and shaping of wood for pieces on bar and backroom wall
    • start the interior design process for men’s toilet room
    • prepare to assemble the stairs to the back door exit
    • prepare materials for constructing samba stairs in the back room

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