...Key objectives of the Porvoo’s sub-project include decreasing energy consumption and optimising the use of renewable energy utilising digital solutions. The entire Uusimaa region is also part of the Canemure...
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Porvoo parish achieving significant savings through ground heat
The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation has recently purchased a forest in the village Marttila in Lohja which will be protected and give the name Haviseva. The approximately three-hectare forest is...
WeFood’s store launch at REDI shopping mall in September 2018. Photo: WeFood/Finn Church Aid Finland’s first “food waste” grocery store selling only surplus food products opened its doors on 20.9.2018...
Emmy Clothing Company Oy is a business operation in Lohja, Finland, and its mission is to encourage people to acquire high-quality clothing and reuse them. In order to promote circular...
The Uusix workshops are a production unit of the City of Helsinki’s Social Services and Health Care Division providing rehabilitative work. The employees at Uusix use recycled materials to create...
Images: Sini Leskinen Soile-Maria Linnemäki is standing on the street, smiling and carrying clothes packed in paper bags and transparent sacks. Effortlessly, she manages to shake hands with me...
Promoting and enabling reuse, upcycling and do it yourself – this is what the Helsinki Metropolitan Area Reuse Centre is about. The centre employs 450 people in sorting, customer service,...
Photo: Hanna Koikkalainen Since 1950s agriculture has developed under the guidance of chemical and technical innovations. It cannot be denied that development would have brought benefits of more efficient cultivation....
Yhteinen pöytä (‘Shared table’) operates in Vantaa, developing networks of community-centred food aid with food waste from supermarkets at the core of the operations. Images: Sini Leskinen Small doors lead...