Monday, 24. May, 2010
Björk’s alarm-letter

Thursday, 20. May, 2010
Áskorun !

Sunday, 21. March, 2010
View to the fire !

Sunday, 21. March, 2010
VOLCANIC ERUPTION IN GLACIER EYJAFJALLAJOKULL !

Monday, 14. September, 2009
A day called zero

Monday, 11. May, 2009
Coming up: New web of Náttúra

Coming up: New web of Náttúra

SOON: ....New web of Náttúra....

International Seeds Day – OBS change of Venue

 Change of Venue: Now in IÐNÓ

Dear All,

Due to unexpected events at Norænna Húsið, International Seeds Day will no longer be held there.

We are very fortunate to have been able to hire IÐNÓ at short notice. The event will still start at 18.30.

Please let everyone know.

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Charlotte and AnoukCharlotte invited you to “International Seeds Day” on Monday, April 27 at 6:30pm.

Event: International Seeds Day

      “‘The World According to Monsanto’ & lively discussion”

What: Lecture

Host: Anouk & Charlotte

Start Time: Monday, April 27 at 6:30pm

End Time: Monday, April 27 at 9:30pm

Where: Norænna Húsið

To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:

http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=88381618128&mid=5a7fd3G2762f5c5G1896265G7

Thanks,

The Facebook Team

Happy life from eggs !

Eider Nest in the Westfjords. Picture from www.strandir.is The scene from the film Dreamland where the water from the Karahnjukar-dam is sweeping the goose-nest away and the little birds dying as they're floating, is one of the unforgettable scenes from this film.

Náttúra wishes to all a happy springtime of sustainable growth and wishes strongly for a sparkling life from eggs!

We’re looking forward… the Dreamland

Male sheep, still from the Dreamland

Rein-deer running away. Still from the Dreamland film

We’ve waited for this film to be released and now it’s happening: tonight is the opening night of the Dreamland, see all infos and press-kits on the film’s web: http://www.draumalandid.is/dreamland/ And find a poster in pdf-format: dreamland

Dreamland is a truly epic film about a nation standing at cross-roads. Leading up to the country’s greatest economic crisis, the government started the largest mega project in the history of Iceland, to build the biggest dam in Europe to provide Alcoa cheap electricity for an aluminum smelter in the rugged east fjords of Iceland. The mantra was economic growth. Today Iceland is left holding a huge dept and an uncertain future.

Dreamland is a film about exploitation of natural resources and as Icelanders have learned clean energy does not come without consequence. Iceland is a country blessed with an abundance of clean, renewable, hydro-electric and geothermal energy. Clean energy brings in polluting industry and international corporations.

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Today at five to seven: John Perkins and other aim at the heart of the heavy industry

The old icelandic way of building houses, turf-houses, green houses. image from skagafjordur.is

The Robin Hood memorial in Nottingham

Today at the Háskólatorg, the new coffee/lecture/library-house of the University of Iceland, there is a conference on the heavy industry policy of Iceland. One of our greatest economists, Sigurdur Johannesson, which has written on the costs of the heavy-industry for Icelandic future economy, and John Perkins and others will be lecturing. All welcome, free of admission.
John Perkins is in Iceland because of the premiere of the documentary Dreamland, which is based on the book with the same title by Andri Snær Magnason.  John Perkins is interviewed in this documentary. John Perkins worked for a number of years as an Economic Hitman with a large consulting company in the US.  Using his own words economic hitmen are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars.  They funnel money from the World Bank, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign “aid” organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet´s natural resources. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, exortion, sex and murder.  They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization. During the past 40 years Iceland, a small nation in the North Atlantic, has sought large solutions for both employment and economics.  In this series of talks we investigate whether this plan has been as fruitful as expected.

Sigurður Jóhannesson is an economist. He has researched energy contracts between Icelandic authorities and international industrial organizations.   

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Today at four : Outlining Sustainability in Iceland

Students from the Sustainable Futures course at the University of Iceland will be presenting posters at the Nordic House today outlining sustainability in Iceland from different perspectives as a part of the Nordic Fashion Biennale. Students will discuss the sustainability of the University of Iceland, Landsvirkjun, the fashion industry, the community Sólheimar, the town of Hveragerði, city of Reykjavík and Iceland as a whole.  Presentations will begin at 4pm; all are welcome.

Green moss and green drinks

The ever-green moss that grows around glaciers. Photo: Gunnlaugur B. Ólafsson.

Green drinks is an international way of net-working in the sphere of environmental issues and will be held in Reykjavik for the second time on the 1 of april. Here’s the invitation from the organiser of the event, Charlotte Ólöf:

Dear All
The second ever Green Drinks in Reykjavík will be held at Norænna Húsið on April 1st, beginning at 17.30. We hope to see some new faces and hear some new ideas.

Green Drinks is an international, informal networking event where environmentally minded people can connect over drinks. It started in London in 1989, it is now active in 448 cities worldwide; from Johannesburg to Manila, Hyderabad to Istanbul. At Green Drinks you will find an interesting mixture of people from academia, NGOs, government and businesses.

Other cities have found the event a catalyst for connectivity, community, collaboration and change in the environmental sector. Although Green Drinks is an organic, self-organising network, many people have found employment, made connections and friends, and developed new ideas.

Please forward this invite on to anyone you think may be interested. www.greendrinks.org

Charlotte Ólöf

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http://charlotteismostly.blogspot.com

DesignMarch in Reykjavik : Program Highlights

The Iceland Design Centre presents the first DesignMarch this year; to become an annual event. The first DesignMarch program is splendid and diverse, with over 150 events reflecting a wide range of design.

DesignMarch aims to imbue the city with life, with design at every step: vacant shop premises will be filled with Icelandic design; cafés will serve their refreshments in Icelandic crockery; impressive exhibitions and installations will be seen all over town. Not to mention shops outside the city center, exhibitions and open studios.

DesignMarch also includes a series of lectures, a seminar, film screenings, and a new approach to city sightseeing, guided by architects.

Further details are available here on the Iceland Design Centre website and the 150 events presented in the program are available here, in Icelandic.

The Design Centre hopes that as many people as possible will seize the opportunity to see, hear and enjoy Icelandic design.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

DesignMarch Lecture Series

27.03 at 13:00 | The National Museum of Iceland, Suðurgata, 101 Reykjavík
Paul Bennett, IDEO |  Design Thinking
Paul Bennett, managing partner, Europe and chief creative officer of IDEO, gives the opening lecture of the DesignMarch Lecture Series.

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Cool friends of the Cool Planet 2009 : New web !

CoolPlanet2009: the new website of the UN’s European public information campaign on climate change (UNRIC) is live!

Here is a letter from our man at Unric:

CoolPlanet, was formally launched at a meeting of five Nordic prime ministers on 26 February 2009 at the Nordic Globalization Forum at the Blue Lagoon in Iceland.

Help the UN-lead negotiations on the new Climate Treaty to be finalized in December 2009 in Copenhagen by getting involved on our inter-active website.

Tell us about your projects, innovations, events and projects and see what others in Europe are doing.

And please, could you link to our website (we will publish your link too!)  www.CoolPlanet2009.org and ask everyone to get involved?

Best regards from UNRIC, Árni Snævarr.

Project Iceland

Now: Conference on Fashion, design and sustainability

As part of the Nordic fashion Biennale, there is a conference on : Fashion Concious: A conference on fashion, design and sustainability, today from 9.30 to 12.30 in the Nordic House (Alvar Alto-house). Speakers are four very clever women: Ann Thorpe, professor and author, Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir, professor, Karin Stenmar (DemCollective) and Malin Eriksson (Clean Clothes). See more info below and on the nfb web

Turning Conscience into Activism by Ann Thorpe

Ann Thorpe has spent the last several years living in the United Kingdom, where she taught product design and sustainable design at the University College of the Creative Arts and currently teaches at the Bartlett School of Architecture (University College London). Prior to this, she worked in the United States with architects and designers in the Pacific Northwest to increase activities in sustainable building and product stewardship. During this time she served as co-chair of the US Green Building Council’s Cascadia Chapter and participated in collaborative eco-redesign projects with Northwest companies such as Microsoft and REI. She has lectured and published widely on the topic of sustainable design.

Transparency as a keyfactor for growth- by Karin Stenmar

It is possible to combine good design with ecology, ethics, quality and profit making!

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