Best Swedish commercials ever

So its still cold here.

Meaning we have developed a personal relationship with some of the television advertisements here.

Particilarly the Com Hem commercials.

There are two little red headed women that must be sisters and these commercials crack me up no matter what.

Check it out:)

We'll post more as we find them.

Dear spring, we miss you.

Karlskrona friends

This is Josh partying with my lady friends while I'm away, so fun! He thinks he looks like a drunken stalker, I agree.

Stephanie (on the left above) took this photo of Mark and I at the Wanas Foundation. It was a lovely day.

London Town

I had the opportunity to go to London last week to attend a showcase of Master's student work from the Fashion & the Environment program at the London College of Fashion. It was amazing, but we did a little sight seeing as well! I absolutely loved it there: super cool night life, we were lucky with two days of blue skies, and a vintage quality throughout the city. Good food too: curry markets and cafe's! Check out some cool photos of the town...

I started off with a Guiness...

And attended the showcase of work from the Fashion & the Environment program.

Queen Elizabeth Hall is lovely.

Westminster Abbey

We hit the curry street in Shoreditch

We stopped at Buckingham Palace to see the changing of the guard, so many tourists! I really wanted a photo making a funny face next to the guard, but this was cool too:)

We went out and found this amazing little double decker bus turned into a restaurants. We went in to find a cute little dating scene.

Old and new architecture, looks like a superimposed image, huh?

This hidden cafe reminded me of New Orleans

Big Ben!

And then we were delayed a night because of a big snowstorm in the nordic lands...we returned to a majestic Karlskrona.

New Apartment

We shifted apartments! Now we are subletting a lovely place on the south west of the island. We have a kitchen we can both fit in it now! It feels much more like home:)

COP15

We were on the run the whole time, but we got a chance to see the Ghost Forest art project by Angela Palmer. It a very cool project trying to raise awareness about deforestation and climate change. The roots and stumps are massive. Below is my friend Stephanie walking by one.

There were art projects all over the city. Some were better than others, but all together it was amazing to see so many people come together to show that they care through different mediums.

There are so many artists that are visualizing what a ton of CO2 looks like.

You may or may not know our story about not being able to find where we were supposed to stay? We definitely had a case of bad travel karma or something. So after walking around for maybe 5 hours we had to call it a night and find a hotel or hostel. Everything was super booked full because of COP15 and some hotels told us to go back to Sweden! Around 1:30am our cabby told us he knew where some rooms might be available, so off we went! When we got there, he was right; and he also informed us it was the red light district of Copenhagen. It didn't seem like what I saw in Amsterdam, but when we tried to check our email, we realized that perhaps Copenhagens red-light district is just more tech savvy than their neighbors to the south.

We didn't care though, it was clean and comfortable and we got a hell of a deal on the room.

The next day we had a lecture from Alex Steffan of Worldchanging! This was certainly a highlight of...the year for me. It was fantastic and inspiring.

After the night of walking around looking for an invisible apartment my shoes were ruined.

I had to jet home early because I literally couldn't take another step. But I had a great time, I can't wait for COP16 next year. I think its in Cancun.

Max Burger

Max Burger is a cool swedish fast food phenomenon. They work with The Natural Step (who are closely related to my school) on their sustainability initiatives. Well, they decided to put a carbon footprint on each of their products, so you can see what choices need more CO2 to be made and can choose a more environmentally friendly option if you wish. Its a very cool model: giving people the information to make their own decisions. Me like. They do have other intiatives in place, as carbon footprinting alone doesn't make a company sustainable. But its definitely a step in the right direction!

Ecological Falafel! Who knew! I had this weird falafel sandwhich and its pretty awesome.

The most environmentally friendly options get their own board. These are typically fish and veggy burgers.

If you knew that a hamburger had 4 times the carbon footprint as chicken, what would you choose?

For a fast food franchise, the interiors are pretty sweet.