Inspiring Lessons from Sweden (protected forests)
Like Finland, Sweden is covered in protected forests. Despite having double Norway’s population, it’s still a peaceful place, where most people have summerhouses to swim in one of the 95,000 crystal clear lakes.
As well as recycling nearly every item of trash, it even imports rubbish from Norway and recycles that too. The third city of Malmö stores rainwater in underground aquifers that provides geothermal heat in winter, and cool air in summer.
What’s interesting is that in a country so cold (Swedes use three times more energy than us), it produces less emissions. Councils uses electric cargo bikes for deliveries and the Stockholm underground runs on green energy (as have all public buses for years).
One in 5 people under 30 in Sweden are now vegan or vegetarian (with another 50% interested). Its also the first country about to go totally cash-free (in England, our new bank notes are a mix of animal fat and plastic).
