Tag: Sweden - Page 8
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Swedes Conclude: Girls' Bikes Safer for Street and Older Folks' Riding Joy
Leave it to the research-crazy Swedes to do a careful 10-year review study on the cycling habits (and accidents) of seniors. No joke!
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Depression Chic: Furniture Inspired by Boarded Up Houses
Here is a look that should do well in America: Stockholm designer Katarina Hall designs "Save"- furniture inspired by abandoned houses and boarded up doors and windows.
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Floating Hotel Opens Near Gothenburg
Here it comes, a 46 bed year round hotel to be anchored next to the famous Salt & Sill Restaurant in Gothenberg, Sweden.
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Netflix for Fashion? Orkan Lia Delivers Recycled-Fabric Dresses to Your Door
Tiny Swedish design firm Orkan Lia, consisting mostly of fashionista Karolina Svensson, has been part of the Swedish vintage revival and doing one-of-a-kind dresses and other fashion clothing using recycled and
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Swedish Town Recycles Heat from Cremations
Arts and Literature have given us Soylent Green and The Matrix, suggesting human bodies as raw material. Usually this makes people grimace and shiver. But in the Swedish town of Halmstad, it will soon make people warm and cozy.
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The Hostel With Wings Going Nowhere Soon
We wrote earlier about the creative recycling of a 747 into a hostel at Stockholm Arlanda Airport. After all, if you can't afford the five thousand bucks to sleep on a 380 to Dubai, you can squeeze into the former queen of the skies for fifty bucks if
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Schools In Japan To Ban Cell Phones
Kids in Japan love their cell phones, but not everyone is happy about the way they are used. Five years ago, a prestigious university in Japan failed 26 students for receiving exam answers on their cell phones. Now, frequent
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The Smoke-Free, Nicotine-Free and Now Organic Swedish Snuff
"Snus" or snuff is popular in Sweden and Norway. It's considered perfectly polite and socially acceptable to insert a small snuff packet in between lip and gum while you are sitting at a dinner table with friends or waiting in line for the tram.
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"Japan Car" Exhibit at London Science Museum Explores Futuristic Design
(Image from Japan Car: Designs for a Crowded Globe at Flickr)
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The Life of a Swedish 'Climate Smart' Chicken: Nasty, Brutish, Short?
The 'kycklingdebat' or chicken debate is hot in Swedes' minds since Svenska Dagbladet (SvD), on of the country's two main dailies, published a long report on the short lives of the 74 million chickens annually born and bred
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Filming The Plan In Japan
The Swedish team behind the award-winning film The Planet is in Japan to film their next feature documentary about mind change, called The Plan. Travelling to some 15 countries, David Österberg and Michael Stenberg are exploring how leading scientists
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7 Hidden Eco-gems: Under-the-Radar Cities Worth a Visit
Scenes from Malmö, Sweden -- a hidden green city gem -- Björn Söderqvist @ flickr. Portland, San Francisco, and New York. These three cities consistently rise to the top of U.S. and even global lists of great green cities. And while these cities,
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Ultimate DIY: Swedish Eco-Store Builds Posh "Passive" House
Passive house combines eco-techniques and "modern" design Trosa is a bit
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Naturhus Wraps A House In Its Own Private Greenhouse
The house-in-a-greenhouse probably wouldn't play very well in say, Arizona, where enclosing your house in glass shell would be folly. But Bengt Warne, a Swedish architect, starting designing what he called the Naturhus (Nature House) in 1976 to work
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What Does Gasoline Actually Cost Where You Live?
Yet, the way the oil has fluctuated in the past year
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Santa Cruz, Ithaca, Sweden Consider Pod-Car Transport Systems
Sweden has already built a pod car pilot on an old football field on the outskirts of the university town of Uppsala, while in West Virginia a small pod-like transport system has
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Ericsson Crosses Mobile Phone Tower With Vertical Axis Wind Turbine
The mainstream wind establishment has a hard time getting excited about vertical turbines - they've been around for too long without a major market breakthrough. But right now it's a bit of the big wind versus little wind question. Vertical wind turbines
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No Bag Ban in Sweden: Instead, More Plastic Recycling
Swedes do love to be all things green. But amazingly, there's no city or municipality in Sweden that has followed the green trend of banning plastic bags.
