Interview with YleX.
I headed over to the YleX radio studios earlier today for a live interview with Heikki Soini and Bikka Puoskari. I thought we were going to try to figure out why Hip Hop music is popular in Finland or maybe discuss Lady Gaga’s latest releases. But no, they wanted to talk about the [...]
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Ambassadors Journal: November 25, 2009
Ambassador’s Journal: November 5, 2009
SNOW!! But first …
I spent the morning at the Cleantech Finland Conference in Lahti. Several very thoughtful presentations were given and I plan to return to get into greater details and specifics on their waste reduction and utilization practices. (Yes I know, it perhaps does not sound exciting, but it really is.)
The conference included lunch [...]
(Almost) No Heater Required for Finland’s High Standard Energy-Efficient Housing
Imagine a newly-built apartment heated only with the excess energy produced by your television, your computer, even your own body. Now imagine that same apartment in Helsinki, Finland – one of Europe’s northern-most cities where winter climes can dip to -20C (5F). Sound impossible? Not at all. Finnish building contractors, Reponen Oy, are making it [...]
Finland and US: Partners in Tackling Climate Change
To say that the Finns have a certain reverence for their summer season is no understatement. From May to August, nearly every Finn heads outdoors to take advantage of the twelve-plus hours of sunlight before the long, dark winter creeps back in. Government and other activity slows down, prompting many to travel to forest cottages [...]
Foreign Service Life – Hunting the Elusive Finnish Chess Set
Visit the home of any diplomat who has had more than a few years in his or her career, and you will see something of a museum reflecting the course of that career. It may be masks from West Africa, painted scroll hangings from China, matryoshka nesting dolls from Russia and so on, sometimes organized [...]