Tag: environment

• The True Green Evolution — imagining the future of agriculture

  

  Now it´s the time to ensure there is enough food for the generations to come. As a dancer, I like the word agriculture because it includes the word “culture” in it. This is not too far from the truth: the development of immaterial culture was indeed accelerated by the invention of agriculture around 12,000 years…

• Fighting deforestation with satellite data

  

  Let the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the University of Helsinki, and Avoin show you how it´s done. They say Finland is “the land of thousand lakes”, even though in reality the number is closer to two hundred thousand. Nevertheless, as a Finn, I see the country first and foremost as a land…

• In the open — making environmental data easy to use

  

  Today´s technology makes it easy to send a message or even gifs and videos with our phones. We can navigate maps and purchase pretty much anything online. With these everyday activities made so easy, why is it still so difficult to easily attain environmental data? Avoin is a not-for-profit organization that strives to make work…

• The mission that will bring us all together

  

  Seeing Aurora Borealis will ignite anyone´s passion for sustainable development. I saw the northern lights for the first time in my life this Friday. In the place where I am currently living, Southern Finland, the phenomenon is not very common, and so we spent a good 30 minutes outside gazing at the slowly dancing drapes…