Tag: Sweden - Page 13
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Climate Neutral Driving...for Dummies?
Sometimes it is tricky to know where good intentions end and greenwash begins, and Volvo's line of Flexifuel cars, available in Europe, seems to toe the line. The V70 Flexifuel - recently released for sale in Sweden - runs on regular gas or ethanol
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Designboost: An Introduction to the Sustainable Design Event
[Ed. note: This is the first in a series of guest posts by David Carlson, co-founder of Designboost, an inaugural event that's focusing on sustainable design this year. Take it away, David!] Designboost is a completely novel concept and will take place
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Growing Significance Of Green As A Branding Characteristic
We're going to need our readers' help to understand these world-wide survey results. What's up with China and Spain for example?
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Forest Superintendent Cabin in Sweden
Sigh. In North America, if they needed a cabin for a forester, they would order a double-wide. In Sweden, they hire young architects like Petra Gipp och Katarina Lundeberg of Arkitektur to design stunners like this cabin in the Grimeton Nature
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Organic for Outdoors - Klattermusen's Rimfaxe Jacket
When, last year, we dropped by Swedish outdoor gear maker, Klattermusen, we thought their Einride jacket might be made from organic cotton. We can now confirm that to be true. And they've added other models, like the Rimfaxe, seen here, and pants. A
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Climate Change Will Break Your Heart
"If it really is a few degrees warmer in the next 50
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This Month in Wallpaper*: Design Directory 2007
This month's issue of Wallpaper* magazine is dominated by the 2007 Design Directory, their hand-picked favorite architects and designers from the past year. Always the epitome of cool, the mag's slick picks
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P is for Phosphorus (As Well As Human Urine)
And it looks like we might have a looming shortage of the former, which could be solved by recycling the latter. Cynthia Mitchell, an Associate Professor from the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology in Sydney (UTS),
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Växjö: Europe's Greenest City?
Could Växjö, a small city in southern Sweden, really be the greenest of the green? Though we are typically loath to make such hyperbolic statements, this particular city makes a strong case for holding that lofty title. In fact, the European Union
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Care for Some Delicious Paleocuisine?
Here's one diet plan even you assiduous fad followers have probably never heard about: the "Paleolithic" diet. As the name implies, this diet essentially consists of foods that were regularly consumed by our Stone Age forbears and includes such staples
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Lithuanian Man to Swim Across Baltic Sea for the Environment
Swimming for the environment seems to becoming more fashionable these days. After British swimmer Lewis Gordon Pugh led the way yesterday with a 1 km swim across the frigid Arctic waters (-1.8°C) to raise awareness about climate change, former
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Confiscated Booze Turned Into Fuel
185,000 gallons of alcohol were confiscated at the Swedish border last year, and authorities have an interesting use for it. They turned most of it into fuel for the public transport network. This may sound very clever, until you hear what they used to
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Villa Näckros: Swedish Floating Prefabs
Prefabs can go in places that conventional buildings can't; some even float, like the Näckros Villa designed by Strindberg Arkitekter in Sweden. It started as a project for a client but has turned into an industrial project; The first was built in
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Friggebod - The Traditional Garden Shed Made Green
How green is your garden shed? This was the question that the young British Designer, Sy Willmer, asked himself during the final year of his MA design program at Göteborg University in Sweden. Taking the traditional garden shed motif found in many
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Transformer Furniture: Dan Sunaga's ItoMaki Table
Google translator doesn't do Swedish, so I can't tell you much about Dan Sunaga's expanding base table. When pushed inward, the web of interlocking wood pieces rise to the appropriate height; when pulled outward it widens and lowers to a coffee table.
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Sweden Introduces "Green Car" Cash Bonus
Congratulations Swedish car buyers. Thanks to a "new "green car" bonus program that went into effect yesterday April 1st, 2007, those who buy a new eco-friendly car can expect SEK 10,000 ($US1,400) in cash from the government. Scheduled to run
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Ekovaruhuset Stockholm: House of Organics
We told you about the opening of the New York City store Ekovaruhuset but somehow we never got around to giving you the lowdown on the original Ekovaruhuset in Stockholm Sweden — until now.
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Combating Climate Change Cheaper Than Originally Thought
Last week, Lars Josefsson, chief executive of Vattenfall the Swedish power company, presented research that shows that the cost of combating climate change could be 40 per cent lower than the figure given in the Stern Report. The Stern Report claimed
