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Talking about feelings at work & other hippie nonsense: non-violent communication at soulbottles

Discover how soulbottles has used Nonviolent Communication since its founding. Find out why NVC is so important to the team in Berlin.

Time for your loved ones: 5 tips on how to give closeness

Are you wondering how you can give closeness and stay in touch with your loved ones during the winter despite Corona? Do you want to be there for your fellow human beings and give personal gifts ...

different types of plastic – is there also “okay” plastic?

Plastic, also known colloquially as synthetic material , is a synthetically produced solid material that is usually derived from fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas. Why do we humans rely so he...

How does our drinking water actually get into the tap?

Summer, sun, thirst! I just filled my soulbottle with tap water for the umpteenth time today – drinking plenty of water is so important in these temperatures. Drinking water is our number one fo...

soulincubator: Experience report by Laura Grotenrath • Zero Waste Your Festival

With her initiative Zero Waste Your Life, Laura is committed to a world without plastic. Through various educational offerings, she has been able to introduce small groups of students and adults t...

Together against plastic waste - with our soulincubators

Drinking a beer after work together, a round of table football during the lunch break - we at soulbottles were really looking forward to the soulincubator teams moving into our Tempelhof headquart...

This is how much impact your soulbottle has – numbers that will surprise you!

How sustainable are soulbottles really? Our impact survey shows their impact on plastic consumption and CO₂ emissions – with exciting results!

Our jury decision on soulincubator projects

In November we told you about the wonderful start of the soulincubator ( read about it here ), the first German incubator dedicated to tackling the plastic crisis . We were delighted that so many ...

the soulstory

Paul Kupfer tells how he and fellow student Georg Tarne founded soulbottles and what the idea behind it was ... and still is.

How we build an organization that truly makes the world a better place

Where Paul and I, Georg, as penniless people in our early 20s, took on five-figure debt to implement this idea of plastic-free drinking bottles, which many people neither understood nor approved of...