Topic: Scandinavia
isnare | 2009-12-21 18:59:31
The trees I use for furniture making come from Scandinavia.However for me travelling through the pine forests in Sweden and Finland, is not exactly breath taking. Row after row of trees, but this is sustained tree management, the forests are planted and grown and cut an felled. It is relatively a quick process, the trees, when felled are taken ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-08-12 17:00:28
<div><p>US novels are catching on like wildfire in France, with almost 20 percent of next season's 659 new books penned in America. </p><p>Of the 229 novels translated into French for release from September, 121 are American, including veteran Philip Roth's 2008 "Exit Ghost" that sees the ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-07-07 21:02:56
<div><p>The Roskilde rock festival in Denmark has given two million kroner (306,000 euros, 373,000 dollars) to humanitarian organisation DanChurchAid to fund climate projects in Malawi, it said Monday.</p><p>The donation is part of the festival's "Green Footsteps" climate campaign.</p><p> ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-06-05 17:00:44
<div><p>Vertical greenhouses that grow organic fruit and vegetables smack in the middle of crowded cities where land is scarce may soon be a reality, a Swedish company developing the project said Friday.</p><p>"A tomato seed is planted on the ground floor on a rotating spiral and when it ...
