Category Good news and fun
Compassion knitted into blankets
This picture is amazing not only because of all the work that is put into the making of the blankets (I also crochet and knit so I know) but the vast contrast between all the love and thoughts put into the wool squares, between the softness and colors of the yarn compared to the hard, […]
Happy Spring – finally!
Yes here it is – spring! I feel optimistic even if we still have 40 cm snow in our yard. But the days are longer and the light is brighter and the sun is warmer. No one says this better than Inge Löök!
Flippin’ Burgers in Stockholm
My cousin IngeMo and her partner John invited me to a great hamburger place in Stockholm at Kungsholms strand. The burgers were super good! The line is at least an hour long and they don’t take reservations – but it is worth the wait. The meet is from an organic farm in Roslagen.
Circular economy salong with Ellen MacArthur at KTH
The auditorium at KTH – Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm – was packed on Monday night and Ellen Mac Arthur, invited to Sweden by Cradle Net, KTH and CITIES the Magazine, opened the Circular economy salong. Ellen first became famous when she broke the world record when she sailed solo nonstop around the world in 2005. When […]
Moralen och konsumtionen
Ett nytt ekonomiskt system är det möjligt? Ja det får man verkligen hoppas. Annars barkar det åt helvetet för vår planet och för mänskligheten. Ekosystemet håller inte om vi fortsätter som vi gjort de senaste 50 åren. Filosofiska rummet sände ett intressant och tankeväckande program från Dramaten i Stockholm innan jul under rubriken Om krisen, […]
We are what we read
….and we read according to what class we belong to. The reality presented to us is also very different depending on what we read, according to Kajsa Ekis Ekman on Dagens Nyheters kultursida. The newspapers create different sorts of realities for us. I remember my mother in-law talking about this phenomenon with me concerning her son-in-laws […]
Emil Jensens nyårsdikt är värd några minuter av vår tid 2013!
Emil Jensens hela Mellansnack i SR 1.1 2013
Lets Rise Up Singing and Change Our National Anthem!
Yes, lets! Because by singing together we get strength to keep on working for a better world and our national anthem is out of date! The community sing-along movement is thriving the the US as it is in Scandinavia. There is a difference in the choice of songs though. Here in Finland and in Sweden […]
Scandinavian countries are fulfilling the American dream better than America these days
CNN reports this morning: The truth is, Scandinavian countries are fulfilling a huge part of the American dream better than America these days. Thankfully, we’re still an innovation powerhouse, and we need to spend more on R&D rather than cutting those budgets. And perhaps we need to target some of that innovative thinking towards restoring the […]
Why Even Tragedy Gets A Laugh
Flora Lichtman and Ira Flatow talks to comedian Tig Notaro who found out she had breast cancer and incorporated the news into her stand-up routine—and got quite a few laughs from the audience. Robert Provine joins the discussion and talks about the origins of laughter, what separates the amusing from the truly funny, and why even […]
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 