Category Inspiration
“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 […]
Ylvas permakultur
Jag har provat på permakultur – ett uttryck som används mycket men jag aldrig riktigt förstått innebörden av. Hjälp fick jag av en artikel i Kloka hem.
Hans Rosling at his best
I cried and laughed out loud when I saw the one hour BBC Documentary OVERPOPULATED and I learned a lot too.
Circular economy is the future!
It is not always easy to explain what circular economy really mens and especially the economy part of the theory. This is a 3.5 minute video about circular economy basics: Tim Jackson does a very good job explaining the economic part in this video:
Periferin och centrum och vad byn kan ge staden
Jag blir alltid glad när jag läser om byaråden i svenskfinland och den svenska byaservicen som upprätthålls av SFV Bildning, Sydkustens landskapsförbund och Svenska Österbottens Förbund för utbildning och kultur För oss som försöker skapa någon sorts “Ekenäs stadsdelsråd” är det inspirerande att se hur byar organiserar sig och sina resurser och hur de arbetar. Centrum kan i detta […]
This is how we all should stand in line!
Why does not everyone do it the Hawaiian way?
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 