Timed perfectly with the release of Shutter Island, Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture plans to turn one of Sweden's old, ugly mental hospitals into a sustainable apartment complex.READ»
Stockholm, already a green city, is getting even greener with a new commitment to its Royal Seaport District under construction. Though plans for the district have been in the works for years in one form or another, a full political ...READ»
The new pirate political party in Sweden, which takes a stern anti-copyright stance, and helps out torrent-sharer Pirate Bay, now plans to launch the world's first "pirate ISP." It'll be anonymized, safe, and feed funds to the party ...READ»
The country that unleashed ABBA, IKEA and H&M on the world is gearing up to impress us once again--this time with Europe's largest wind farm. Swedish company Markbygden Vind AB wants to build 1,101 wind turbines in the northern ...READ»
The carbon benefits of mass transit are hard to deny: A motorcoach can carry over fifty people, and, in a single trip, take 50 cars off the road. So to advertise Sweden's Flygbussarna airport-shuttle service, the ad agency ...READ»
A grade school in Sweden had a problem: Their "playground" was really nothing more than a vast flat slab of asphalt--better suited to prison inmates pumping iron than kids lollygagging and playing tag. They wanted a ...READ»
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»
One of the interesting pieces of information that we uncovered while doing the research for Ideas Are Free was that some idea schemes show a strong gender bias. This was particularly true with the suggestion systems we saw in Sweden. ...READ»
In October, Sweden got its first floating hotel, a 46-room, boutique affair called Salt & Sill. The eco-minded proprietors chose the watery location, off a small fishing island near Gothenburg, simply because they didn't want to ...READ»
Many people spend more waking hours with their computers in a given day than they do with their families or friends. Ever wonder exactly how that relationship works? For the folks at INTERACT, that’s the driving question. ...READ»
The Swedish political Pirate Party has gone and embroiled itself in some hot news: It's offering servers and hosting to WikiLeaks, the "whistleblowing" site that's just published thousands of controversial secret military files on ...READ»
The oil spill is killing me. My suitcase is killing me. But mostly it's Robyn's interactive twideo that's killing Twitter users. The firm behind it is Blip Boutique, an L.A.-based collective led by James Frost--the guy behind ...READ»
January 19, 2009:Today is Martin Luther King’s birthday and we have one day to Obama’s inauguration!New World Economy So much is changing and becoming more interesting and meaningful. This is an evolving era of mass insight, ...READ»
Our electricity use is invisible, so we consume it without much thought. That's a problem, and two Swedish designers are tackling it with clever, low-tech designs meant to make us a bit more conscious of the energy we use. They're ...READ»
The Stateside launch for Spotify is firming up and could happen in late summer. The music streaming service currently only available in some European countries is in talks with U.S. Internet and cell-phone service providers in this ...READ»
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»
This week in TreeHugger: Another nail is pounded in the coffin of dead tree books--the Kindle outsold everything on Amazon. Also, the truth behind the hacked climate emails and the future of compressed air cars.READ»
I was having a bad day on Monday. Then I had to go to the Post Office – seldom a great experience. I’m not big on standing in line. However, I had a book order to ship to Sweden and so off to the post office I ...READ»
In the April issue of Fast Company there are quite some facts listed about stress.
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62% of Americans are stressed about work, according to the American Psychological ...READ»
