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Swedish Genius: The Hammarby Model

Idyllic, isn’t it? Malmö and Hammarby Sjöstad… They’re on everyone’s tongues (or at least everyone following eco-development trends). As NaturalSpaces.com says, “The city of Malmö on the western coast of Sweden has created one of the world’s most dynamic sustainable cultures in Vastra Hamnen. Stockholm has also risen to the challenge of a sustainable future [...]

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Ice is Hot: Lap(land) it Up

I’m a warm-blooded desert dwelling gypsy, but when I hear about Swedish Lapland I think of men named Bjorn, fjords, water so blue it’s white, reindeers, and Bond… James Bond. It all started with Art. The story goes something like this. In the late 80′s, Japanese ice artists visited northern Sweden, an area known as [...]

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