Tag: Scandinavia
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Visiting Alvar Aalto's Nordic House
The Scandinavian master designed a gem of a building promoting Nordic cooperation.
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Tree Ring Study Heats Up Battle of Climate Change Skeptics Against Scientists
Can't we all stop fencing for political position and start talking about using the overwhelming amount of data to solve problems?
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Cycling Across Scandinavia: Stockholm's Vision for Urban Life
We are at the end of our LostGen2 quest for the world's best city
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Cycling Across Scandinavia: Rudolf Steiner Found, Thanks to James Turell
Leaving Boras takes us past a
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Cycling Across Scandinavia: Gothenburg to Boras, Sweden Doesn't Strip
Sarah and I have spent the better
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A New "Lost Generation" Cycles Across Scandinavia To Understand North America
Toronto, a city rated as one of the most livable in the world by The
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12 Hip Green Hostels Around the Globe
Whether your traveling tastes run rural or urban, green hostels offer an inexpensive and character-filled -- not to mention sustainable -- alternative to bland hotels.
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Norwegian Wind Power Could Become Europe's Battery
Norway's Oil and Energy Minister, Aaslaug Haga, seems to think that wind turbines is a good bet. The scandinavian country is the 5th biggest
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Walking Away From Haz Waste
On a cold and windy November weekday there aren't any cars lined up at the new Kretsloppsparken (Waste Park) Alelyckan outside Gothenburg, even though there are four lanes available - a veritable expressway! - for vehicular drop-off of practically every
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A Good Globe Is Hard To Find
A Swedish IT start-up is behind BadBuster, a new plug-in (currently only for Internet Explorer, soon for Firefox) that gives an environmental score to 650 of the largest multinational firms, in the form of a 1-100 number rating. Thus each time your
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Finding A Perfect Tike Bike
trioBike has released the next version of its tri-functional cargo bike, which we first wrote about here. The 2.0 Balanced is an aerodynamic and sleek-looking kid-hauler. And the detachable bike, a Shimano Nexus 7-speed, also looks great when you are out
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E-Paper Surpasses Dead Trees In Life-Cycle Test
We've written about e-paper here and while the idea seems nifty, it's hard not to think that improving online readers might be the best option rather than adding another electronic gadget to the overladen waste stream. But in a new study from the
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Swedish Tourism Cold Comfort For Warming Globe
The Swedish travel industry is woefully under-prepared for a changing climate, says researcher Stephen Gössling. Tourism to and from Sweden contributes 10 percent of the country's total measured CO2 emissions,
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Sweden's Green Car Explosion
At this week's Clean Vehicles and Fuels conference in Stockholm, city officials released an updated survey showing that 50 percent of city residents would consider shopping for a "miljöbil" when they buy their next car. That's a huge increase from
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Skinny Swedish Packages A Staple In China
There's always clung to the Tetra Pak a bit of uncertainty regarding its environmental credibility: is it or isn't it green? Tetra Pak recycling rates are lousy, but in at least one life cycle analysis it came out ahead of glass and PET plastic in energy
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Time To Ecolabel Biofuels?
It wasn't too long ago that biofuels were basking in the glow of nearly everyone's approval - a quick fix for reducing CO2 emissions from transport. The EU aims to fill 10% of its transport needs with biofuels by 2020. But biofuel's easy ride may be
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In Copenhagen Bicycles Overtake Cars
As a result of half a century of planning, Copenhagen has achieved a fabulous cycling goal - during the morning rush hour more bikes and mopeds pound the inner city streets than personal cars and buses. Just a bit more than a third of inhabitants get
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I.P. Freely - On The Organic Cabbages
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