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Finnish designer empowers sustainable fashion

Quick fashion leads to quick consumption: Timo Rissanen, a professor at Parsons School of Design in New York, is convinced that fashion houses can create clothing while also conserving resources and preserving nature.

Life & society Education

Finnish kids create media buzz every spring

Every spring a magazine written and illustrated entirely by schoolchildren arrives like a breath of fresh air. It’s a longstanding tradition, especially in southern Finland.

Life & society Society

Finland sees dual benefits from rehab and recycling

The Uusix workshops in Helsinki combine social and environmental values by giving long-term jobseekers a chance to return to working life while making new products out of recycled materials.

Business & innovation Technology

Innovative space technology from Finland

Iceye, from Finland, is creating real-time radar imaging delivered from space via microsatellites. The technology has global potential.

Business & innovation Business

Startup Refugees innovate and integrate in Finland

A Finnish project helps asylum seekers find dignity and meaningful work in running their own businesses.

Life & society Education

American teacher gets lost and found in Finland

ThisisFINLAND sends British reporter Tim Bird, a longtime Helsinki resident, to chat with Tim Walker, an American teacher and more recent arrival who is attracting attention with his blogs, articles and books about life and work in Finland.

Business & innovation Health

Meet Finland’s new gene genie

Henna Tyynismaa of Finland is the rising star of genetic research, making impressive progress in helping us understand causes of diseases.

Life & society Webpick

Lovely Lahti hosts Nordic World Ski Championships

How many athletes from how many countries are competing in how many events?

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