Author Archives: Ylva Rancken-Lutz
Innovativa initiativ för en hållbar värld
När man känner att det mesta i världen går mot ett håll som verkar allt annat än hållbart känns det viktigt att engagera sig. Under mitt liv har det varit enormt viktigt att engagemang mig i projektet som gett mig en känsla av jag som privatperson verkligen kan göra något för en hållbarare värld. Det är […]
Ylvas permakultur II
En liten uppdatering av mitt permakulturprojekt. Det växer så det brakar just nu för att det regnar ju varje dag i södra Finland. Jag satte potatis och planterade lök och sådde litet sallad i kanten. När regnet slutat falla och det torkat upp i gräset ska jag kratta ihop gräsklippet på gräsmattan och täcka jorden igen. […]
Share Daily Show’s Burned Notice!
A way to deal with the frustration that you feel when dealing with really ignorant people like the guys on the United States House of Representative Committee on Science, Space and Technology is to make fun of them – to laugh at their stupidity. HOW can we in any other way deal with the frustration […]
SlowCommons Creating Sustainable Spaces in Stockholm
An informative and good article about my “slow” projects in Stockholm in the Slow Travel Stockholm online magazine.
“Ekenäs story Caravan” joins the European Idea Camp 2015 – “Build the City”
‘Build the City’ is the theme of the 2015 European Cultural Foundation Call for Ideas. Our project idea “Ekenäs Story Caravan” was selected as one of 50 ideas from all of Europe to join the Idea Camp in Botkyrka in Sweden in September 2015. This is our idea: “Ekenäs Story Caravan” aims to deepen local engagement and co-governing […]
A City Where Everyone Works, There Are No Police, And The Salary Is 1200 Euros
Since the financial crisis began in 2008, Marinaleda has shot to fame — and so has its maverick mayor Juan Manuel , who earned the nickname,”The Spanish Robin Hood,” after organizing and carrying out a series of supermarket raids in a direct action protest last August. Basic groceries such as oil, rice and beans were […]
I want to give my precious niece Emelie the best life advice I know for a High School graduate!
Emelie and all you other graduates of class 2015: Congratulations! Go out into the world and follow this advice and you will be fine! […]
Refugee and immigrant/emigrant flows in the world
I listened to a very interesting debate on Swedish-speaking Yle Vega radio about refugee politics in Sweden and Finland, concluding that policies in the two countries are very different and that Sweden shows much more solidarity towards people needing asylum. With the new Finnish government the difference will widen. Groups in Sweden who are against liberal Swedish […]
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 