Solutions Big Stock Photo Watch a giant drill inches Stockholm closer to a fully green future Stockholm wants to be completely fossil fuel free by 2040. So they're using a very long drill to dig a tunnel for new power cables.
Solutions Photo by Khara Woods on Unsplash The largest ‘wooden city’ in the world is going up in Stockholm In an old industrial zone in Stockholm filled with former factory buildings and parking lots, developers are planning to build a “wooden city”—the largest mass-timber development in the world, with 30 wood buildings spanning 25 blocks.
Good Newscommons.wikimedia.org By adding timber to old buildings, Stockholm is expanding sustainably Architects are using lightweight wood to add on to existing buildings, preserving what's already there and preventing wasteful demolitions.
Politicspixabay.com World’s fastest electric ferries are coming to Stockholm With urban transportation trying to get greener, could a trial service to the Swedish capital’s outer islands be the start of a bigger trend?
Impacts Photo by Bogomil Mihaylov on Unsplash Study finds butterflies struggle for survival in warmer autumns Researchers have found that longer and warmer autumns make it difficult for green-veined white butterflies to survive the winter.
Politics www.nytimes.com The city where cars are not welcome As automakers promise to get rid of internal combustion engines, Heidelberg is trying to get rid of autos.
Solutions Sweden is transforming streets into "1-minute city" designs Sweden is testing designs to help activate individual blocks, in what it calls “1-minute city” designs.
