Tag: Sweden - Page 10
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Climate-Friendly Swedish Supper: Fennel, Bean and Tomato Stew
A dozen adventurous Swedish households in the country's southern Kalmar province have taken on a one-year climate challenge known as the "Climate Pilots" project. After
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Swedish Flatpack Homes In Large, Medium, Small and XXS
On first glance the slick web site for Next House, a Swedish prefab designer, is just a tad too glossy. Photos of the prefab houses are gorgeous, to be sure, but they are shot so
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Östra Kvarnskogen by Brunnberg & Forshed
My Swedish is a bit rusty so I can't say much about this project, other than it won a big prize from the Swedish wood promotion organization Skogs Inustrierna. "Östra Kvarnskogen has been constructed within a large nature reserve with sharply sloping
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Word of the Year? Lagom: Swedish for Just Enough
The other day we were taking votes on an alternative to the word 'green', which is taking a bit of an over-use pounding of late. Well, seems our Scandinavian brethren had such a word all along. Lagom is Swedish for 'just enough', or an appropriate
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Cork Ladders for Hot Pots by Hetta
Swedish design company Hetta’s favourite materials are cork, leather and wool. We particularly like the corky underlays for pots; one has the shape of a Ladder, and another one is Long and flexible for you to decorate the table in countless ways.
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Sweet Pee - The Splenda Of It All
Sucralose or "Splenda", a.k.a. chlorinated sucrose, it turns out, is passed through our livers and kidneys with very little metabolic breakdown (98% pass through), and flows on it's sweet little way to the wastewater treatment plant (our societal liver
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Playsam Hops On Green Toy Wagon
Can the kids of the future be happy with low-toxic toys in plain paper packaging? Visiting any toy superstore you sure wouldn't believe it, as excessive packaging and bad plastics are the clear and present norm. But if kids could grasp the enormity of
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Ethanol: Eco-Labeled Yet Losing Luster Fast
Svanen, the Swedish eco-labeling association, is putting the finishing touches on an ethanol, methane and biodiesel labeling system that is expected to start popping up at fueling pumps in Sweden by the end of this year. For such a small nation, Sweden
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Sweden Says: "Eat Up Your Greenhouse Effect"
There's a long and strong "waste-not, want-not" tradition in Sweden (IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad is only the most famous of these resourceful - possibly even stingy - Swedes) - so it's no surprise that the country's biggest grocery chains has now
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101 Holes In The Ground Heat Up Latest IKEA
IKEA, that retailing paradox, has become more enamored of the big box store concept than ever - recently the company announced that it would eschew further development of web-based
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Don't Forget to Play: Aalto Designs Coming to Stockholm
In addition to being a tremendous design, Alvar Aalto was one quotable guy; he once said, "I beg you, don't forget playfulness!" TreeHugger is a big fan of Aalto’s work -- we've covered one of his chairs, stools (and the stools again)and the bamboo
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EU To Pump Up Hot Air Capture
Tomorrow's a big day for Europe and the future of alternative energy development and regional climate efforts - the EU Commission will present its directive on the plan get 20 percent of energy from
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Plastic Politics and Sweden's Bio-Bag Backlash
In spite of San Francisco's enlightening example, and Australia and China and other nations' plans for all-out bans on plastic bags, the world still uses a million of the suckers each minute. In Sweden 70% of surveyed consumers support a ban on plastic
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More Talk About A Dim Bulb, Part I
Last week we highlighted here the New York Times' comparison of CFLs and consumers' feelings, and some treehuggers opined that adapting to change just takes time, and the right bulb! But the damning statistic in this WSJ commentary - that just 5 % of the
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The Sustainable Wheel of Design by The David Report
"A product could be defined as sustainable first when it consider all ingredients of the "sustainable wheel". We always have to extend sustainability beyond materials. We have to remember to always look through the lens of humanity when we are
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Round-the-World Bicyclists Stop in Berlin
Even if you offset the CO2 from your holiday caravan to Grandmas or flight to the islands, this report probably represents a guilt-threat level yellow. But if you want to be amazed at human tenacity and draw inspiration for what remains after peak oil,
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Welcome to the Matrix in Stockholm Central Station
Morpheus showed us how effective the human body is at generating energy; now the Swedes are making it happen. So many people pass through the Stockholm Central Station each day, moving quickly and generating heat, that they are going to capture it and
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Museum in a Box
What do you do when you have a big traditional museum and you want to design a museum for small people? You build a museum within the museum.
