Category Inspiration
“Urban Fruit Initiative” är Sveriges bästa kooperativa affärsidé 2012
Vilken bra idé – grattis! I vår lilla stad blir jag så glad när jag ibland ser någon som satt ut äpplen på gatan för folk att äta. Otrolig stor mängd frukt går till spillo varje höst. Sveriges bästa kooperativa affärsidé 2012 producerar fruktprodukter från odlingar i stadsmiljö. Entreprenörerna i kooperativet Urban Fruit Initiative vinner nu priser […]
Alice Walker: Go to the Places That Scare You
Alice Walker is a poet, essayist, and commentator, but she’s best known as a writer of literary fiction. Her novel The Color Purple won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1983 and quickly became a classic of world literature. The novel is told in letters written by Celie, a woman who survives oppression and abuse […]
The Story of Film: An Odyssey by Mark Cousins
Writer, filmmaker and passionate cinephile has made a 15-hour documentary inspired by his bestseller, ‘The Story of Film’. It is shown on Teema on Finnish TV this fall. It throws you into the history of film and I have learned things which have changed the way I watch film. He takes us through the history of innovation in […]
Wahlroos och Salmén om politik, frisyrer, sex och musik 1969
Det var en Wahlroos jag skulle ha velat känna. One blue sky above us One ocean lapping all our shore One earth so green and round Who could ask for more…. Related articles: Miljardärer, solidaritet och regnbågar
Greediness, solidarity and rainbows
When my daughter was little she wondered why I thought people who were rich were not happier than we were. I tried to explain that happiness does not come with money, and that not everyone can be rich, there are not enough resources in the world. It was certainly not a convincing argument for a […]
Miljardärer, solidaritet och regnbågar
När min dotter var liten undrade hon varför jag trodde att folk inte var lyckligare om de var rika. Jag försökte förklara att lycka inte kommer med pengar och att alla inte kan vara rika i världen, det finns inte tillräckligt med resurser i världen för det. Det var säkert inte ett övertygande resonemang för […]
Make a Apple Tarte Tatin and be happy
It is pie time! Maybe it is because fall is here….. I am making Apple Tarte Tatin – there is nothing better when it comes to pies. Someone said you should play theatre when you fell depressed or down but I say you should bake! Inspired by Jonas (my son) who made it 4 years ago […]
Pete Seeger a planter of hope
Pete Seeger says in an interview in Democracy Now, May 4, 2009 Realize that little things lead to bigger things… Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don’t grow. Some fall on the rocks, and they don’t grow. But some seeds fall on fallow ground, and they grow and multiply a thousand fold. […]
Be a Storyteller First
Be a Storyteller First Posted on July 1, 2012 by Ruth Ann Nordin
Because I love you I’ll give it one more try!
That is how I can feel in a world full with anger and violence. The songs “Barn av regnbuen” and “My rainbow race” by Lillebjørn Nilsen and Pete Seeger (watch film below) has helped me in a struggle to keep believing in a better world. I feel I am in a collective when listening to Lillebjørn Nilsen and the […]
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 