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‘Not a single new idea has come out of Eastern Europe in 1989,’ stated historian Francois Furet in 1990. However, a more in-depth look at the political movements of Eastern Europe would reveal that many of the former Eastern Block countries did indeed have a unique and indigenous revolutionary culture, born out of the realities of living under the Soviet system. This chapter will discuss East Germany’s ecological movement and its unique contribution to the revolution of 1989. Applying the concept of the so-called Third Way, I want to refute Furet’s thesis and discuss the possibilities of the GDR’s ecological movement and its missed potential after the German reunification. The Third Way rejects the authoritarian methods of the established communist party, but does not automatically endorse a western-style capitalism. It thus describes the search for a way from the real socialism to the ideal socialism. I shall use unpublished archival material from the GDR’s ecological movement in the 1980s to document the possibilities of the Third Way for a radical rethinking of the ecological renewal of the GDR. Unhindered by capitalist notions of profit, the Third Way saw the nonmonetary value of a clean environment long before the western mainstream ecology embraced such a concept. Previously unheard of notions, such as urban ecology, alternative energy sources and the regulation of energy consumption through higher prices demonstrate the uniqueness of a proposed ecological revolution ‘made in GDR’.