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Together is more sustainable
Eating together is more fun, and can also be more sustainable. Photo: Melker Dahlstrand/imagebank.sweden.se Lukas Moodysson’s film Tillsammans (Together) from 2000, about Swedes living in a 1975...
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Playing for a better world – and a different consumption
Someone who seems very happy with the toy he just swapped. Photo: Retoy. Can you create a better world by playing? One person who is sure of this is Soledad Piñero Misa, who started Retoy. The idea...
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Sweden has thousands of nameless insects!
The Malaise trap, which has given its name to the project. Once invented by the Swedish entomologist René Malaise, they are a very efficient way of collecting insects. Photo: Kajsa Glemhorn. I know...
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Protests in Sweden’s own summerhouse
Getting their message out in the Ojnare forest. Photo: Fältbiologerna. “This country is like one big summerhouse”, said a Chinese man I know the other day. And it’s true, Sweden is a very calm country...
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Will we have our own giant shrimps in Sweden?
Will there be locally produced Swedish shrimp sushi in the future? Well, we might have to change the rice for something else though … Photo: Baron Valium (CC: by-sa) You find them on the sushi, in woks...
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Not just another flea market
One of the Transition Group members talking to the vendors about the group's work. Photo: Ylva Lundin. I know I keep going on about the Transition Group in my childhood town Alingsås, but they just...
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Sustainability for both the eye and the brain
Photo from the book. An orangutan, like hundreds of other orphans, is kept at the Nyaru Menteng rehabilitation center in Kalimantan, Indonesia. The loss of dipterocarp trees in this region has led to...
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I’ve got bees!
Johan and Franz checking if the bees have a queen. The rain and the bees flying around don’t really appear on this photo, but I can tell you they were everywhere… Photo: Sara Jeswani. “Congratulations,...
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The new must-have: A local Future Week
Anders Persson’s son Edvin has become the poster boy for the Swedish Future Weeks. Photo: Framtidsveckan. It all started with the artist Anders Persson in Söderhamn (who is among other things known for...
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Thanks and goodbye!
Photo: Sara Jeswani. Just like things come and go in nature, so do blogs … and now the time has come for this blog to end. For me it’s been more than three (!) great years, blogging about what’s...
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