Tag: Sweden - Page 12
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The Sucking Sound? Just A Little Biogas
Brainchild of Lars Smedlund, the
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Sweden swapping efficiency for security?
Touching down in Stockholm today to pick up his 2007 Volvo Environmental Prize, energy guru Amory Lovins had some harsh words for the Swedes. Sweden, a paradise of innovation around effective energy use and smart building in the 1970's, has lost its top
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Slow Trains Heading South
Italy, birth place of Slow Food and Slow Cities, is also the most popular destination for a new Scandinavian trend - charter trips...by slow train.
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Green Grillin'
Summer's long gone. But take a fall walk in nature up here in Scandinavia (the original 'land of lakes') and you are likely to stumble upon copious reminders of the season just past - including the twisted and charred metal remains of the
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Dispatches from Designboost: The Sustainable Design Exhibition
The Designboost exhibition takes
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Secret Sauna by Visiondivision
We didn't know that "If you want to build something in Sweden, you have to neglect your architectural aspirations and desires, and build something comprehensible and conventional to please the Swedish building regulations with their obsessed
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Checking Out the Sun's Surface with a Solar Telescope
Scientists are planning to send a balloon-borne solar telescope on expeditions in the polar regions to gather an unprecedented amount of data on the sun's surface. Following a successful test flight earlier this month during which the telescope -
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Linking Turbines Directly To The Tank
Sweden isn't a hot wind power market in Europe, not compared to Germany (20,000 MW of capacity), Spain (11,000 MW) or even Great Britain (nearly 2,000 MW). In fact, the Swedes currently have a paltry 572 MW of wind capacity, generating about 1.2TWh of
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Glögg, Glögg, Glögg
Jonas Torstensson, a Swedish glass designer (in a country where there are a lot of glass designers) has worked with recycled materials for much of his career. OK, there are also a lot of recycled glass products, but Torstensson even fires up the ovens
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Dispatches from Designboost: On to the Exhibition
Sustainable design is not only about
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Spilled Heat Could Run Hot or Cold
A group of companies including Swedish steelmaker SSAB is building a pilot system to collect waste heat (spillvärme in Swedish) and move it by train or ferry to district heating systems a little further away from the steel mill's coastal location on
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Climate Carrots
Carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers and potatoes are likely to be the first foods to get a special climate-friendly label in Sweden, according to Swedish organic certifier KRAV and the quality control organization Svenskt Sigill.
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Dispatches from Designboost: Boost Chats on Cultural Sustainability
Day two of Designboost was all about
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Dispatches from Designboost: "Boost" Meetings and Sustainable Design
The Boost meetings on day one of
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The Podcars Are Coming
The quaint college town of Uppsala, Sweden seems like the last type of place to test these funny-looking personal rapid transit (PRT) electric pod cars from Korea-based Vectus.
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Swedish Fair Fashion, Hold the Macaroni
In addition to its social conscience, Sweden is also extremely fashion conscious, and recent media debate plus campaigns by local group Rena Kläder (Clean Clothing) have brought ideas about ethical fashion to the forefront. Right on cue, in Sweden's
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Designboost: Getting Ready and "Sustainable" Context
[Ed. note: This is the second in a series of guest posts by David Carlson, co-founder of Designboost, an inaugural event that's focusing on sustainable design this year. Read the first post here and stay tuned for more!] Designboost (which takes place
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MOMO Mixes Clean Lines, Green Roofs
Scandinavians cherish summer more than most - they don't mind tight urban quarters but when the sun shines they want to decamp to a cute little stuga (cottage) close to the water. Swedish architect Thomas Lind designed MOMO - which stands for
