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. […]
Promoting and enabling reuse, upcycling and do it yourself – this is what the Helsinki Metropolitan Area Reuse Centre is about. The centre employs 450 […]
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 […]
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. Small […]
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 […]
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. […]
Porvoo parish was granted the Hinku award this April. The parish has achieved significant emission reductions by switching over from oil to geothermal heat in […]
Porvoo parish achieving significant savings through ground heat
Hinku Award 4/2019
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 […]
Finland’s first “food waste” grocery store selling only surplus food products opened its doors on 20.9.2018 in Helsinki. Finn Church Aid’s WeFood store is based […]