Tag: Finland

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  Hollow Surfboard Is Made from Broken Skateboards

  A Finnish designer has made a working surfboard from broken skateboards.

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  Liina Shelter from Aalto University Is Held Together By Straps

  Another great example of how simple and common technologies can be put to use in new ways

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  The Difference Between Resilience & Sustainability? A Zombie Apocalypse

  The green movement needs to focus more on resiliance. And we can take notes from those surviving zombie take-overs.

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  Multinational Corporations Collaborate On Finland's Urban Sustainability

  Companies including Toyota, TNT, Acciona, Siemens, and UTC are helping a city in Finland to work toward urban sustainability.

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  Multi-Storey Prefab Office Building Delivered By Barge

  Normally, prefabricated buildings are limited by the rules of the road; in this case, the Finnish prefabber NEAPO built the entire building in a shipyard and delivered it by barge to a site on Hirvensalo island near Turku, Finland.

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  Property Rights Are Not Absolutes. "Everyman's Right" in Scandinavia.

  When I wrote about what I learned from trespassing as a kid, I argued that property rights—though most likely necessary—are tools to achieve a certain end, not ideological

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  Flatpack Table Assembles Like House of Cards

  Upon seeing the NZELA table in Swiss Miss, I was immediately reminded of two things: the way Gerrit Rietveld used colour in the Red Blue Chair; the way one assembles Charles Eames' house of cards. It is such a simple

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  Parts from Endangered Species Used as Fishing Lures

  What could be worse than buying and selling parts from some of the world's most endangered species? Using those parts as means to capture and kill more animals, perhaps? Authorities in Finland are currently investigating

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  Helsinki Residents Burrowing Underground, Turning Into Morlocks

  Kaid Benfield writes at NRDC Switchboard that Helsinki is building an underground city to avoid urban sprawl. CNN's Richard Quest, " whose effusive reporting style may be to infrastructure what Dick Vitale's is to basketball," explains in a short video

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  More Palm Oil Questions: Finnair Halts Biofuel Introduction, As Malaysia's Forests Fall For Farming

  Two on palm oil, from Finland and Malaysia: State-owned airline Finnair has announced that it will not begin using aviation biofuel on some of its routes this year as previously planned. Part of the reason is the

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  Sleek + Clever Lamp Design Uses Loose Change to Save Energy + Money

  Seriously effective and good looking eco-design is hard. We know, we've been at it for years. Every now and again, however, a design pops up that just nails beauty and efficiency in one perfectly elegant fell swoop. Today

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  Nudge, the New Eco Lifestyle Shop in Helsinki, Has Opened Its Doors

  I wish there was a Nudge in every city. It's a whole new way of shopping, or actually, it's not just about shopping, but rather about living, and style. Nudge is the new eco lifestyle experience, which consists of a shop, a

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  The RaceAbout Electric Car in Action (Made in Finland by Students!)

  A few months ago, I wrote about the RaceAbout electric car and the team of students that made it to compete in the Automotive X-Prize (follow the link for more details about the competition and the

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  Finnish Food at Hel Yes! a Pop-up Resto at the London Design Festival

  Last week we had foraged mushrooms served by Italian architects. Tonight we had foraged Finnish food in a pop-up recycled magical forest. The London Design Festival feels more food than design...

• The Dark Threat of Ecofascism

  I confess I've always been bemused when angry skeptics denounce climate activists as "Hitler Youth", or label fellow TreeHugger Lloyd as either an eco-fascist or an eco-commie. While environmentalism, like any

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  Massive Algae Bloom Spreading Across Baltic Sea

  The 30 bottles of pre-French Revolution champagne recently recovered from the bottom of the Baltic Sea were a pretty awesome find. But the latest thing to show up in

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  The Lace Collection, Matteria shows off the romantic side of eco-design

  Lace is back! A while ago Lloyd wrote about the California-based Eurolaces, believed to be the first company to offer 100% certified machine-made macramé style organic cotton lace trim for apparel or curtains. Now lace has become a theme amongst the

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  RaceAbout Electric Car From Finland Ready to Compete in X-Prize

  Photo: ERA One More Electric Two-Seater The Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences has recently unveiled the Electric RaceAbout (ERA), an electric car designed and built in Finland that will compete in the Automotive X-Prize (which we wrote