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The Northern Lights colour the skies over Finland
Green, yellow and purple ribbons of light stretch across a dark winter sky.
Life & societyNature

The Northern Lights colour the skies over Finland

Finland’s natural scenery includes, by any measure, some of the most beautiful views in the world: blue lakes, emerald forests and snowy winter landscapes.

Tagged in EnvironmentNatureThisisFINLAND MagazineTravelWinter
Finnish company encourages fun science education for kids
Three women in lab coats sit at a table with educational toys on it.
Business & innovationEducation

Finnish company encourages fun science education for kids

Kide Science creates science education for children that is literally child’s play. The fun, hands-on pedagogical model is based on substantial research into how kids learn best.

Tagged in EducationInnovationScienceThisisFINLAND Magazine
Finnish innovations for overcoming plastic waste
In a forest, a person is putting pieces of plastic trash in a bag.
Business & innovationEnvironment

Finnish innovations for overcoming plastic waste

The world needs a wide range of innovations if it is to rise to the challenge of reducing single-use plastic. Numerous start-ups and companies in Finland are working to devise solutions.

Tagged in ClimateEnvironmentNatureThisisFINLAND Magazine
Finnish wood works
Business & innovationSustainability

Finnish wood works

Light, strong, warm and environmentally friendly, wood is making a comeback in construction and popping up in some unexpected applications.

Tagged in EnvironmentForestryInnovationSustainabilityThisisFINLAND Magazine
Living everyday life sustainably in Finland
Wearing jackets and hats that suggest cool weather, an older woman, two women in their thirties and two young children pose together with a large dog in front of a wooden building.
Life & societySustainability

Living everyday life sustainably in Finland

Knowledge shared is knowledge doubled: We see how one woman’s idea became upcycled into a community information centre.

Tagged in ClimateEnvironmentInnovationRecyclingSustainabilityThisisFINLAND Magazine
For many in Finland, sustainability is the obvious choice
Walking past a wooden house, a man and a woman hold hands with a small girl who is jumping, while a boy walks beside them.
Life & societySustainability

For many in Finland, sustainability is the obvious choice

Many Finnish people place great value on sustainability, and it shows in the way they choose to live their lives.

Tagged in EnvironmentRecyclingSustainabilityThisisFINLAND Magazine
Rethinking Finnish sauna
Several people with towels wrapped around them sit on wooden benches on a shoreline outside a small wooden building with a chimney.
Life & societyFinnishness

Rethinking Finnish sauna

Hidden beyond the building sites of the vast new urban district of Kalasatama lies Helsinki’s best-known secret, Sompasauna.

Tagged in FinnishnessSaunaSocietyThisisFINLAND Magazine
Two Finnish musicians describe their country of crazy ideas
In front of an autumnal background of green and red leaves, a woman in a white shirt and a black vest smiles.
Arts & cultureMusic

Two Finnish musicians describe their country of crazy ideas

Finnish musicians Dalia Stasevska and Lauri Porra are a couple who enjoy breaking musical boundaries.

Tagged in FinnishnessMusicThisisFINLAND Magazine

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