One family's fight for independence, building an ecological house (EcoHouse, EkoHus in Swedish) for $15'000.

Quick guide to learning the Swedish language

As a permanent resident in Sweden, I am lucky to recieve free SFI lessons in Swedish.

here are some quick tips to learning Swedish on your own.

KKA Recreates Gothenburg as a Sustainable Ecotopia

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Addressing the urgent need to green our built environment, Kjellgren Kaminsky Architects have conceived of a Super Sustainable City

Stockholm – European Green Capital

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Stockholm is nominated for Europe’s greenest city by the European Comission. Very deserving, I say.
The Swedish capital – which will be the first European Green Capital in 2010 – has the ambitious target of saying goodbye to fossils by 2050
95% of the population live only 300 m away from green areas, thus augmenting recreation, swimming, boating, better well being, water purification, noise reduction, enhancement of biodiversity and ecology.
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