Category Open source – the commons

Obama’s Clean Power Plan inger hopp!

Ja nu kanske något händer även i USA när det gäller att bekämpa klimatförändringen. “This is the most significant action any U.S. president has taken to curb greenhouse gases” sade en talesperson från Vita huset! Obama presenterade alltså sin Clean Power Plan. I en kort (mycket amerikansk) film presenteras planen. Som Washington Post skriver kommer troligen detta […]

May I present: The Solarshade

Trasmatta målas på asfalten i Ekenäs

Underbart initiativ av idélabbet Burken i Ekenäs. http://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2015/07/16/de-malar-en-matta-pa-asfalten-i-ekenas

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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: