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Marilyn Mehlmann: Get your inner elephants moving!
For her 70:th birthday Marilyn Lehmann decided to start working "only" full time. I suppose that says something about this lady. Yesterday World Environment Day was celebrated in many places, among...
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A family on the verge of 1 tonne CO2
The Lindell family in front of the project house. Their weekly carbon budget has been 80 kilos of CO2 emissions, while an “average” family’s weekly emissions are 540 kilos. Photo: One Tonne Life. How...
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Recycle your garbage like a Swede
The noble art of sorting your garbage right for the recycling station. Photo: Sara Jeswani. Like many other nationalities Swedes recycle their garbage. But I’d go as far as saying that sorting out your...
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Summer, sun and serious business
Tällberg Forum started off on Thursday in a sizzling hot tent. Photo: Sara Jeswani. I have already written about Swedish music festivals with a green thinking. But there are also festivals and forums...
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Swedish non-muslims choose to live simpler during Ramadan
“Laundry was made for drying like this” Photo: Johan Wistbacka (CC BY-NC) Islam’s fasting month Ramadan is right now celebrated by many of Sweden’s around 400 000 muslims. But a period of...
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The new green role model: Sweden’s Grand Old Lady
A Green Grand Old Lady won’t leave her bike at home just because the weather is a bit grey. Photo: David Hall (CC: BY) The Swedish word tant stands for an elderly lady, typically baking cookies,...
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Snow and ice? No problem for a winter cyclist!
My rescue this winter: Studded tyres. Photo: Sara Jeswani. As a child, I used to cycle to school in all kinds of weather. Going by bus or being driven there by someone’s parents only happened on rare...
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Swedes long for the countryside, but move to the city
The Borgström family moves to a milk farm for five weeks in a new Swedish reality show. Photo: Andreas Hillergren. Recently one of Sweden’s main newspapers, Dagens Nyheter, went through the statistics...
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What do people over 55 think about climate change?
An active ageing population means people who both have the time and will to continue consuming and seeing the world. How does this affect the way over 55s look at the world? asks researchers. Photo:...
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Is city life really that green?
Easy cycling is good, but not the whole story. Photo: Maqroll (CC: by-nc-sa) Stockholm and other Swedish cities are often being pointed out as green and low emission. According to official figures, the...
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