Sustainable Brothels?

Just a funny article I came upon today!

Brothel cuts rates for ‘green’ customers

From http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/2974796/Brothel-cuts-rates-for-green-customers

Part of Berlin’s red-light scene is going green.

One bordello, hoping to stave off falling demand in the economic crisis, has begun offering discounts to customers who pedal bicycles to the door.

“It’s very difficult to find parking around here, and this option is better for our environment,” said Thomas Goetz, who owns the brothel Maison d’Envie, or House of Desire.

Local residents in Prenzlauer Berg – a part of former East Berlin now home to scores of trendy boutiques, restaurants and clubs – had staunchly supported the Green party in recent elections and have welcomed the bordello’s offer to emphasize the environment.

The bordellos in the capital of Germany, where prostitution is legal, have seen business suffer with the global financial crisis. Patrons have become more frugal, and there are fewer potential customers coming to the city for business trips and conferences.

But Maison d’Envie has seen its business begin to return since it began offering the euro5 (NZ$10) discount in July, Goetz said.

To qualify, customers must show the receptionist either a bicycle padlock key or proof they used public transit to get to the neighbourhood. That knocks the price for 45 minutes in a room, for example, to euro65 from euro70.

Those who arrive on foot, however, are out of luck.

“We haven’t found a way for people to prove they have walked here,” Goetz explained.

Other brothels have tried different incentives to cope with the economic downturn. One Berlin bordello offered a flat-rate for an unlimited time before officials’ concerns over prostitutes’ rights and cleanliness in the club forced them to rescind the offer.

The 450,000 prostitutes working in Germany, some 10,000 of whom are in Berlin, have the same legal rights and social benefits as people in other professions.

Check out the article here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/2974796/Brothel-cuts-rates-for-green-customers

Who said plastic bags were no good…

With all the bad press plastic shopping bags have been getting lately (I dont think there’s been good press about the plastic bags we use everyday since they were invented in 1965).

Its interesting to note that when they were  first being mass-produced, plastic shopping bags were lauded as an environmental boon rather than burden. The use of plastics for bagging and carrying needs was justified under the premise that the paper bag production industry destroyed forests and wildlife habitats! Now, of course, we see that plastic bags are in fact the cholesterol clogging the arteries of nature herself. Cutting down trees to make bags,  however, seems just as ridiculous in its own way – hey, thats the price of convenience, right? Anyways, here’s something involving plastic bags which brings things to life – rather than the usual killing and suffocating and whatnot. Oh the irony!

Good dog!

An awesome piece of streetart borrowed from the guys over at Wooster Collective showing an awesome dog made of plastic bags – that pops up to life everytime subway trains run past, blowing air from the vents below!

badass.

Sustainable Sausage Podcast The Second!

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Howdy Sausages, i have for you here in my hot little hands…well, in this post anyway – the second Sustainable Sausage Podcast!

This time we thought we’d leave the “classroom” and head out to talk to people who arent otherwise involved issues regarding sustainability – so whilst maintaining our focus on students and twenty-somethings, we sent our reporter-at-large, Ms. Janelle Ericksen out into field, to notorious Dunedin event The Cookathon, at local student pub, The Cook. Whilst we got some funny responses, as expected, we also turned up quite a few gems, all from the mouths of heavily inebriated folk. If a bunch of drunk students can tell us what sustainability is all about, the future looks bright! For the planet at least…

Feed us…Feed us back, like we have fed you! (Please give us your thoughts)

Cheers!

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Sustainable Dance Club – What the shiz?

Procrastination sucks for my Masters thesis, but its gold for this blog. Here’s a short clip of some Dutch ingenuity – It’s sustainability, and whadya know, its for twenty somethings!

Podcast the first!

Ahoy once again, as promised, here’s our very first, brand spanking new Sustainable Sausage Podcast! We’re all new to the podcast format, as you will probably be able to tell, however we’re working hard to make this informative and at the very least, interesting. We are everyday people, just like you – we’re not hardcore greenies, just a couple of curious student with consciences, who want to provide a relaxed forum for people to talk about why they think about the whole sustainability issue, and why they are or arent trying to live more sustainably.

So what do you think would an effective format to broach these issues? Is there anything you wish to add? Anything you’d like us to explore? You’re feedback is essential for us to make this work, so we’re counting on you!

Enjoy!

The Sausages

p.s. apologies for the rubbish Photoshop job above

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Podcasts Ahoy!

Talley-ho faithful readers!

There be podcasts a-comin over the horizon!

Stay tuned, or better yet, get tuned.

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