For two nations starkly different in every studied aspect, the similarity of situations between Sweden and India is uncanny. Rupali Mehra, shares her experience from Sweden's Almedalen political festival where she worked on a series of seminars for India@Almedalen.
One of Sweden's leading symphony orchestras is to ban conductors and soloists who come to play with it from coming by plane, in what it is billing as "the world's first sustainable orchestral season".
If there is one thing you need to know before coming to Sweden, it's that sorting trash is a serious matter. Swedes champion recycling, and within a few months you'll be a connoisseur too.
Sustainability is a challenge for every industry, but in fashion where consumers buy products shipped from a far off land only to throw them away when they get bored, it's particularly pertinent. Aiming to be a "Nobel Prize of fashion", the non-profit H&M foundation's Global Change Award is designed to help tackle those problems, providing funding to innovators who come up with solutions for making the fashion industry circular and protect the planet.
MY SWEDISH CAREER: Rachel Van Asch set up her own shop within the space of six weeks after moving from London to Sweden. Twelve years later, she tells The Local what she's learned about Sweden, startups, and herself.
What can Swedish companies teach the world about sustainability? asks <a href="theconversation.com/profiles/susanne-arvidsson-334912">Susanne Arvidsson</a>, associate professor in accounting and finance at <a href="theconversation.com/institutions/lund-university-756">Lund University</a>, in this opinion piece first published by The Conversation.
Sweden has been ranked top of an index assessing social, environmental and economic development, with the other four Scandinavian nations completing the top five.
Think startups are just about making a profit? The Local contributor Nicole Zerrer found seven from Sweden that will make your life, and the world, a better place.
Would you eat old clothes? That's exactly what one Swedish clothing brand asked a group of people to do when they created a fine-dining menu from food grown out of textiles, in an effort to prove a point about sustainability.
Adapting to a new country can be a challenge, but adapting to a new country while studying there and also attempting to launch a career is a bigger one. Originally from Italy, Greta Mabilia explains to The Local how she's juggling a course in sustainable design in Växjö while also learning the ropes of PR.
Sweden is a country with a reputation for using innovation to come up with inventive answers to big problems, and one example is the "E16 Elväg" in Gävle – the world's first electricity powered highway.
A village in southern Sweden is set to become the first energy self-sufficient settlement in the country thanks to a trial of a new local energy system.
Four Swedish companies have made the cut in a ranking of the world’s most sustainable businesses, with the country punching above its weight relative to the number of Swedish companies which were eligible for the study.
Many of us, looking back on our childhoods, liked to play with sand in the playground outside the house. Building unusual caves, castles and houses, creating plants and flowers of different sizes and shapes, experimenting with silhouettes of fantasy animals; we were creating a world, where all our sand-made creatures could happily cohabit with each other.
IN MY VOICE: NFGL member Mohammad Bilal Attar retells his unlikely journey from war-torn Syria to graduate studies in Sweden and how exploring sustainability helped him link local NFGL networks in two of Sweden's historic university towns.
SI alum Katsiaryna Syrayezhkina tells SI News about a recent event she organized in Minsk about sustainable living, and advises current students and alumni on how to make a difference.
The year is coming to an end, and NFGL member Artem Gumeniuk reflects upon the Gothenburg network's activities - including a fascinating tour of a futuristic, sustainable cityscape.
Swedish companies can do almost no wrong - at least in the eyes of Americans - according to a recent survey by The Local, which also reveals that Americans’ love of Sweden extends across many areas.
This weekend was World Water Day, and the Stockholm Water Prize was awarded on Friday. The winner was one Indian man who has been called "the Gandhi of Water" - and who is changing thousands of lives.
Several students from KTH were among the winners of this year's Green Innovation Contest. Read about the innovations which won them a prize for their work with sustainable living.
