Topic: Stockholm

Moral Question of the Day: Should We Burn Bunnies for Biofuel?

Biofuel comes from some strange sources--watermelon, coffee grounds, and poop, to name a few. But when does the weirdness cross over into immorality? Perhaps when we start burning bunnies for biofuel. As unbelievable as it may ...READ»

What's in a Name, Baby?

A couple in Sweden are getting grief from the authorities in Stockholm for wanting to name their baby after the popular heavy metal band Metallica. Stories like this make me feel so much better about myself. Here I am, on a ...READ»

All Hail Taxi Stockholm

Taxi Stockholm 150000 is a fast-moving leader in an industry famous for its old-fashioned ways. A CEO who knows how to drive change put 3,822 cabbies on the road to the future.READ»

Hyper Island Grooms the Next Generation of Digital Media

Mattias Hansson helps train 1,300 students a year in digital media, interactive art direction, and digital business management in Stockholm and on a former prison island off the coast of Sweden. Graduates are hotly recruited by such firms as Crispin Porter + Bogusky and Ideo.READ»

• Entertainment Academy
• Startup School
• Degrees of Green

Let's Do Lunch (or Dinner, or Drinks)

A guide to schmoozing in four cities that are starting to make their dot on the map.READ»

Can New York City's MTA Run On Carbon Credits?

One creative source of revenue New York City is considering: Carbon credits. Yesterday, public transit chief Eliot Sander was on the Brian Lehrer show discussing the "doomsday budget", which basically is a choice between bad and ...READ»

New Ways to Measure Energy Use

Intelligent systems can now monitor buildings, traffic, even bodies of water. READ»

• Attack of the Green-Tech Geeks
• High-Tech Ways to Go Green at Home

In Today's Papers

Reading and ripping: Hospitality for Everyone "Restaurateur Danny Meyer Says Celebrities Generate Buzz, But Regular Folks Pay the Bills" The House on Autopilot Remote control rooms Survivors of the Worst Of Job Interviewers Commit ...READ»

Is Information Visualization the Next Frontier for Design?

As design work shifts to infrastructure and problem solving, sexy infographics are part of the new skill set. READ»

Three Lessons in "Rational" Prices Raising Ethical Questions

1. Mets Play Hardball More than any other major-league baseball team, the New York Mets have tinkered with variable ticket prices that fluctuate in tandem with "platinum" game times (say, summer weekends) and ...READ»

• Why Your Gut Is More Ethical Than Your Brain

Double Take Design: The Return of Trompe L'oeil

As modernism fades, visual trickery fills its place.READ»

Short-Lived Stores

Last month, I mentioned Song's experiment with a short-lived retail store in New York City. Its shelf life? Six weeks. An alert FC Now reader emailed me about a similar retail experiment -- one that may very well have been the ...READ»

Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling at the Milan Furniture Fair

These are nervous times for the companies showing off their wares at the sprawling Milan Furniture Fair. At the same time, a showcase for luxurious goods is as good a place as any to see how the prevailing grey mood is translating ...READ»

So Long, Stockholm. Six Reasons Why Belgium Will Be the Next Hotspot for Design

Ten years ago the fashionable destination for design-minded travelers was the Guggenheim at Bilbao, where Frank Gehry's titanium acrobatics famously cast their spell. When design tourists pack their black clothing this month they will ...READ»

You're Playing with My Mind!

In Mindball, a new game powered by brain waves, calm is the ultimate weapon.READ»

Scandic Sells Service

Unni Astron has worked to take Scandic CEO Roland Nilsson's model of decentralized management down to the front lines.READ»

No Place Like Home

E2 Home, is a joint venture between Electrolux and Ericsson. Its mission? To change housework as we know it -- and to rethink business strategy in the process.READ»

Spring Greening DIY: Drops Upholstery Chair is an Inner Tube

There are a number of innovative entries in Inhabitat's Spring Greening DIY Contest, but my favorite is Camilla Hounsell's Drops Chair. The chair, recently exhibited at the 2009 Stockholm Furniture Fair, consists of four stainless ...READ»

How Skandia Generates Its Future Faster

Planning isn't just for CEOs anymore. Sweden's $7 billion insurance giant lets three generations of executives set strategic targets.READ»

Funky Fresh: Ace Hotel's New Breed of Design Comes to New York

The New York branch of the Ace Hotel just opened yesterday, and it's a great corrective to the bloated, blinged-out interiors we've come to expect from boutique hotels. Rooms begin at a very reasonable rate for New York--$199 ...READ»

Torrent Site Fights Legal Action with 'Chewbacca Defense'

Yesterday was the third installment of the Pirate Bay Trial in Stockholm, Sweden, that has pitted a popular file-sharing site against media companies claiming copyright infringement. Fresh off yesterday's minor victory, when half the ...READ»

There's No Business Like FLOW Business

Time becomes irrelevant, the water in the teakettle boils away, you forget where you are, so focused are you on the work you're doing. Sound familiar? If not, try taking a look at how some companies are using Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's ideas to improve the productivity and satisfaction of their employees.READ»

Attack of the Green Tech Geeks

Jetsons-style applications, from companies like RecycleBank and Agilewaves, that measure just what we're consuming have become the hottest trend in sustainable business. Such systems give people information that rivals what Wal-Mart has of its supply chain. But can the energy savings trump the privacy hit?READ»

• New Ways to Measure Energy
• High-Tech Ways to Go Green at Home

News, Views, and Web Tools

The trouble with Fast Company is that I tear out so many articles to send to friends, I wind up destroying the magazine.READ»

Trust (But Verify)

Everybody endorses it - almost nobody knows how to measure it. Two new tools that attach hard numbers to soft and squishy feelings.READ»