The Sustainable City – A Swedish partnership initiative

The ambition of the project is to gather and communicate comprehensive knowledge on the most innovative and inspiring sustainable urban solutions.

Environmental Smorgasbord
The Canadian magazine for responsible business, Corporate Knights, recently published an interesting article about Swedish sustainability and Hammarby Sjöstad.
Read the article at Corporate Knights homepage

How Swede it is! How Green it is!- Sweden Study Tour September 2009
Making Sense of Sustainability: A unique Educational Opportunity for Government Decision Makers, Urban Professionals and Developers. This fall, the Canadian Urban Institute and ReNew Canada Magazine in collaboration with the Swedish Trade Council, the Embassy of Sweden and the Canadian Embassy invite you to participate in a study tour of Sweden to see first-hand how the principles of Sweden’s SymbioCity are revolutionizing urbanism and the process of city building. See the whole invitation in Related files.

Speech by Minister Andreas Carlgren at Sustainable City Development-conference At a conference on "Sustainable City Development" in the city of Malmö on 12 September 2007, Sweden's Minister for the Environment gave the following speech

Stockholm "greenest" city in the World!
According to a study by UCLA-professor Matthew E. Kahn and Fran Lostys, Stockholm is the greenest city in the World. For more information go to RD's own webpage and ranking.
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