Scandinavian News Links
http://www.norway.org/
http://www.norway.org/info/embassy.htm
http://www.norwaypost.no/
http://www.topix.net/world/norway
http://www.norway.com/
http://www.visitnorway.com/us/ Beautiful pictures
Sweden
http://www.swedenabroad.com/Start____6989.aspx
http://www.topix.net/world/sweden
Denmark
http://www.ambwashington.um.dk/en
http://www.topix.net/world/denmark
Finland
http://www.finland.org/en/
http://www.topix.net/world/finland
Iceland
http://www.iceland.org/us
http://www.topix.net/world/iceland
Youth for Understanding USA
www.yfu-usa.org
1-866-4-YFU-USA (1-866-493-8872)
Northwest Ohio Area Representatives
Jamie & Rick Withem
Home 419-547-7588
Jamie Cell 419-307-0323
hdbroomhilda@hotmail.com
International
Student Exchange Programs www.asse.com
Local Contact:
Teresa Arnold
734-854-1848
teresa@tmaapr.com
Other Scandinavian Clubs
Columbus - http://www.netwalk.com/~scandiclub/index.htm
1/8/07 - Full fat milk makes you thinner - Swedish study
http://www.thelocal.se/6019/20070108/
Kris comments:
Hey, those Swedes have it together! I wonder how many of those Swedes were
drinking fresh unprocessed milk from pastured cows - the very best kind.
6/28/08 - News about one of our favorite members - Olga
Christina Boone
Now
100, Sylvania resident says life has been an adventure
July 2008 - Vesterheim Museum at the 43rd annual Decorah Nordic
Fest
http://vesterheim.org/events/nordicfest.php
Nov 2008 - Snow Patrol - skiing on Hardangervidda.(Norway)
http://www.audubonmagazine.org/features0811/greentravel.html
There is short podcast report at http://www.audubonmagazine.org/norway/
11/30/08 - Here's a little education on Norwegian
lefse:
Labor of lefse keeps tradition rolling
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/35293984.html
3/14/09 - Nordic Diet Healthy as Mediterranean Diet
http://tinyurl.com/NordicDietA
A fascinating site by a Swedish ecologist
Folke Günther
http://www.holon.se/folke/index.shtml
4/19/09 - What Is Royalty In The 21st Century? by Simon
Winchester 
Story about Denmark's Royalty in April 19 Parade magazine. Here's a scan
of the picture that was in the Blade issue of Parade - different from what
is online.
http://www.parade.com/news/2009/04/what-is-royalty-in-the-21st-century.html
April 2009 - Ice Paradise
The rich life of Svalbard, Norway's Arctic archipelago, faces a
creeping thaw.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/04/svalbard/barcott-text
5/13/09 - Thriving Norway Provides an Economics Lesson
June 2009 Finland's jewel - Oulanka National Park
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/06/oulanka-national-park/klinkenborg-text
9/8/09 - Norwegian company - StatoilHydro
inaugurates floating wind turbine
and also here http://www.windfair.net/press/6552.html
11/9/09 - Kris found this after reading an article in the New York Times this morning on the new CO2 labels in Sweden
Which
Foods Are Produced with Lower CO2 Emissions?
Swedish
Shoppers Ponder New Food Labels
To Cut Global Warming, Swedes Study Their Plates
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/world/europe/23degrees.html
Best reader comment (and readers favorite comment) on the NYTimes
article - from a Wisconsin farmer:
"As a dairy farmer who grazes cows rather than feeding fuel intensive
corn and soy; I applaud this effort to label food according to it's carbon
footprint. The perennial grasses I grow and store for winter feed sink
carbon into our farm's soil. You can see the difference in stored soil
organic matter when a shovel full from my field is compared to my
neighbor's just across the fence-line. Now, if only our government would
set our farm bill incentives for pasture rather than corn &
beans......."
Kris
responds:
Hurray for pasture raised meat! One of the best things you can easily do
for the environment and your health is to insist on grass-fed
(pasture-raised) meat and dairy at the grocery store. Before I hear any
complaints about the cost, read this
article on the high cost of cheap food. We could improve our health
and put a lot of the unemployed to work raising that high quality meat and
other high quality sustainably produced (organic and better) fresh
unprocessed food.
Feb. 2, 2010 - Swedish environmental lessons http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2010/0210/Swedish-environmental-lessons
June 8, 2010 - Lessons from Norway
http://www.catalyst.org/blog/quotas/lessons-from-norway
In Norway, 40% of the board members of publicly traded companies are
women. That's because they must be - by law.
Norway's approach is considered progressive. Indeed, many call the
country's initiative the boldest move anywhere to address an issue that
one author has flagged as "one of the most durable barriers to gender
equality." Not surprisingly, other countries are thinking about
following in Norway's footsteps. However, business leaders, politicians
and women in these countries are first asking whether or not the
legislative solution has in fact made a difference in Norway....
July 2010 - Swedish Staples, by Marleen Whitely
http://www.ulsterpublishing.com/view/full_story/8440095/article--Swedish-staples
Sweden has a very traditional, varied cuisine with some
dishes dating back hundreds of years. The basis of Swedish cuisine is
"husmanskost," or house-man food. This refers to the
traditional, simple meals served in the homes of families living in the
countryside....
News related to the October 2010 program:
1998 - Hopperstad stave church replica dedicated
http://www.norway.org/ARCHIVE/News/archive/1998/199805church/
Aug. 08 - A Church for the Ages
http://origin-minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/08/20/stavechurch/