You are what you eat
It is easy to get depressed by horrible animal handling, dioxins and other toxins in fish and deforestation of rainforests. We know that avocados, bananas, coffee and rice require loads of fresh water in areas that are already lacking it. So, what’s left to eat?
How to get out of the linear brainwashing
We firmly adhere to linear business models, even though they are destructive. It’s time for us to get out of the collective brainwashing and start thinking about circulation instead.
Hidden between the lines
It’s been a flood of quarterly reports in Sweden this week. With the uncertainty that prevails in the world, they are reassuringly solid to hold on to – clear columns, debit and credit, pluses and minuses. It is what it is. Right?
Dare to challenge the filter bubble
One of the Greengoats threw herself handlessly into a wasp nest this week. It happened when one of our Members of Parliament suddenly experienced a severe lack of global warming because it was raining outside. The goat just couldn’t help it. You can certainly choose to avoid wasp nests. You can even opt out of […]
Wanted: people who refuse to adapt
Last week, it was 38 degrees Celsius in northern Siberia. Great! The children could swim in the melt water from the permafrost. After a couple of days of brutal heat here in Sweden, a child or two could be found in sunbeds in our rather chaotic laundry room in the basement. There, it was nice […]
The sustainability report makes us happier
It’s time for trust and security, says Bodil Jönsson and Åke Åkesson in their book Tid för tillit och trygghet (in Swedish only). They mean that our part of the industrial world is so economically well off today that we haven’t really noticed what it has cost us.
Can we talk about Preem?
It’s impossible to write a post this week without mentioning Preem and the Mark och Miljööverdomstolen’s remark. To be honest, the issue has dominated all our discussions this week. The gut feeling says: What?! Is an expanded thick oil refinery really what the world needs right now? What happened to the environmental goals?
How many thoughts can we keep in our head at the same time?
It’s been a bit hectic this week, to say the least. The thing is that we suddenly realized that one million plants and animal species are threatened with extinction around the world, and that there is no indication that the situation will improve.
What will be shocking in 56 years?
In the 1960s, the sea was still infinitely large. This simple instructional film about how to behave at sea from 1964 shows just that. It’s in Swedish, but it shows how to make your garbage sink to the sea floor instead of reaching the shore.
The art of managing risk
In Google’s sustainability report from 2019, they state: “The path to a cleaner, healthier future begins with the small decisions we make each day. That’s why we strive to build sustainability into everything we do”. With that said, where does their responsibility start and where does it end?