“Narratives form our reality. We become their vessels. Stories find, capture, and hold us. Our lives are shaped by the stories we hear as children, some fade as we grow older, others are reinforced by our families, churches, and schools. From stories we absorb our goals in life, our morals, and our patterns of behaviour.” …
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In October 2019 YLVA announced that their UniCafe restaurants are removing beef from their lunch menu and cafe items by February 2020. UniCafe is owned and operated by YLVA which is the Student Union’s (HYY) asset manager, owned by the students of University of Helsinki. Similar decisions to remove beef from the menu have been made in university cafeterias in other countries before. In the announcement YLVA reported that removing beef will reduce the carbon footprint of their restaurants by 11%. Now that the time has come and beef has left the building, it is a good time to return to this topic.
In 2019 the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL2019) declared by the United Nations raised awareness on the immense value of Indigenous languages diversity. It also drew attention to the alarming rate to which many languages are turning into sleeping languages and endangered.
On 19 December 2019, the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland (SACF) ruled against Finnpulp, an intended 1,4 billion-euro industrial bioeconomy investment in Kuopio. In this landmark ruling (SACF 2019:166), the court overturned earlier decisions granting an environmental permit. The reasoning of the SACF was to a considerable degree based on article 4 of the Water …
Att vi lätt betraktar världen ur en förenklad geografisk synvinkel är något jag vill lyfta fram i detta blogginlägg. Låt mig koppla tillbaka till inlägget av Charles Gore, där han snuddar på detta problem då han pratar om metodologisk nationalism i samband med ekologiska illusioner. Gore lyfter fram hur statistik om statliga utsläpp tyder på att vissa rika länder har minskat sina växthusgaser, men att vi ser en helt annan historia om vi även beaktar export och import (till länder som Kinas och Indiens fördel). Att våra samhällen inte existerar i enskilda containrar är något de flesta vet men som lätt förbises. I detta blogginlägg lyfter jag fram problemet Gore tar upp, men mer än så vill jag visa varför det är viktigt att betrakta geografin från olika synvinklar i studier och diskussioner om hållbar utveckling och andra komplexa samhälleliga fenomen.
