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Cycling Across Scandinavia: Rudolf Steiner Found, Thanks to James Turell

12:21 pm in bike friendly city, bikes, eco-travel, scandinavia, sweden by TreeHugger

cyclister.jpg Counting the number of bikes on the bike path in Boras, Sweden. Guest poster Robert Ouellette has written for the National Post, Corporate Knights and his own Reading Toronto. He is cycling across Sweden and reports: Leaving Boras takes us past a digital sign that counts and displays the number of cyclists using the adjacent bike lane. It is a good idea. I'd like to see guerilla versions put on Canadian streets. We need to make visible the growing number of cyclists our politicians are eager to ignore... anyone want to take me up on this? Mobile automated bike counters have to be easy to make and use . . . ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cycling Across Scandinavia: Gothenburg to Boras, Sweden Doesn’t Strip

5:23 pm in bike friendly city, bike tours, bikes, Cars & Transportation, scandinavia, sweden by TreeHugger

map of sweden route image "To see the Google Map version of this route, follow this link." Guest poster Robert Ouellette has written for the National Post, Corporate Knights and his own Reading Toronto. He is cycling across Sweden and reports: Sarah and I have spent the better part of an hour trying to find the major road leading out of Gothenburg towards our first stop, Boras, an industrial town built on the textile trade. Something is missing out here at the fringe of Sweden's second largest city. It makes na...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cycling Across Scandinavia: You Don’t Have To Be A Starchitect Ambulance Chaser To Be Impressed

1:15 pm in architects, bikes, biking, copenhagen, green building, sweden by TreeHugger

photo (5).JPG Guest poster Robert Ouellette has written for the National Post, Corporate Knights and his own Reading Toronto. He is cycling across Sweden and reports: In our search for some kind of Grand Tour enlightenment, the first lesson we learn is that in Copenhagen the war on cars is over. Bicyclists won. The fight wasn't even close. Treehugger.com readers know the statistics already: 1.3 million kilometers cycled each and every work day by about 160,000 people; 50% of the city's adult population ride their bikes to work or school; 24% take transit; 13% walk; 13%...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Pre-loved Fabrics Made Into Psychedelic Furniture: Design By Leftovers

4:15 pm in Design & Architecture, designers, furniture, recycled consumer goods, sweden by TreeHugger

design by leftovers photoPhotos: Design By Leftovers website If your Victorian-style divan started having an intense psychedelic experience, it would probably look something like these stunning pieces by Swedish design duo Linda and Jona Netsman of Design By Leftovers. Adapting the principle of creative re-use in their motto "pre-loved can be re-loved," they recycle luxurious fabric scraps from old garments to re-upholster and re-fashion antique pieces of furniture into a mind-melting feast of colours and textures -- definitely not intended for the f...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Low Carbon Living Experiment Ends. Did The Lindell Family Achieve a One Tonne Life? (Video)

8:02 am in carbon footprints, Design & Architecture, electronics, energy efficiency, Science & Technology, solar electric, sweden by TreeHugger

Lindell family outside One Tonne Life house All images via One Tonne Life on flickr You may remember six months ago we travelled to Sweden to meet the lucky Lindell family who had just moved in a beautiful new home in the suburbs of Stockholm. This wasn't any old designer house though, this was the first protoype of the Brigh...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Pack Full of Tools for Urban Farmers On the Go

3:17 pm in cities, community gardens, Design & Architecture, designers, farming, sweden, urban life by TreeHugger

urban farming tools set photo Photos: Mirko Ihrig / Olli Hirvonen Since the last time I was in San Francisco, little community gardens seem to have multiplied dramatically, popping up in narrow spaces between buildings and formerly garbage-strewn lots. That pattern is being repeated around the world, as people seek cheaper, healthier ways to feed themselves, say two European design students who have created an urban farming tool set ma...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Three Birds Fly Over 3,700 Miles Without Stopping

5:48 pm in birds, sweden, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

three great snipes photo Photo: aigledayres / cc In what seems like the storyline from an awesome buddy-film, researchers from Sweden have recorded one of the most remarkable road air-trips ever seen in nature -- three birds together on a non-stop, 3,728 mile, shotgun-style journey from Sweden to Africa. Over the course of about three days, the trio of Great Snipes maintained an average speed of 43 mph, flying over the European mainland all the way to Nigeria without taking a single break. The epic trip not only breaks records, it's prom...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Best of Show: The Wästberg Durapulp Lamp

9:03 am in icff, LED, light emitting diodes, lighting, sweden by TreeHugger

wastberg durapulp lamp icff photo Image credit Wästberg A few years ago, looking for new markets for its sustainably harvested wood, the Swedish forestry company Södra developed Durapulp, a mix of wood pulp and polylactide, or PLA, the thermoplastic made from corn or sugarcane. They consulted with the architectural firm Claesson Koivisto Rune, who developed a prize-winning chair out of the stuff, and who then approached a sceptical Magnus Wästberg, who wondered about the virtues of mixing paper and electrical wiring. But with modern low-voltage LEDs, the old preconceptions n...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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