November 28, 2008 – 1:12 pm
Buy Nothing Day can be celebrated today 28th november 2008 by bying nothing.
And the other days of the year it would be wise to think twice before you buy. There are those very smart folks who keeps telling that it doesn’t make any difference what a single person consumes. The whole system should be changed first. Next day these same very sharp people tell, that system can’t be changed, because people do not want to consume ecologically and ethically produced products and services…
International Buy Nothing Day site
Adbusters: Buy Nothing Day 2008
November 19, 2008 – 4:43 pm
Finnish research team studies migration routes and most important stopover sites and over-wintering grounds of the Finnish population of the Eurasian crane (Grus grus).
On 18th November the first satellite crane of the project, a young male colt named as Petteri, was discovered in Tunisia, Africa. On 19th November also a female satellite crane Aino arrived Africa.
Learn more from Satellite cranes site.
November 5, 2008 – 2:19 am
The USA is voting for a new president. One thing is for sure, the Bush era is ending.
To celebrate this event, here are some cartoons about this great statesman admired here in Finland only by the former prime minister Paavo Lipponen and some ministers of the current right wing government…
Good luck, friends over there! You deserve better than the last eight years of misery. And the world can’t stand any more Bush politics either.
About 90 % of Finns would vote for Obama. So we have our hopes high here! I will work all night and follow Huffington Post, Comedy Central and toddAlbert.com to keep awake and informed. 
And then some cartoons: Read More »
November 3, 2008 – 10:53 pm
Some day care centers in Finland and Sweden have a practise called “Feel at home in Nature”. Children are outdoors in nature as much as possible no matter if it is rainy or cold. Of course kids have proper outfit and experienced childminders. In forest they play, eat lunch by the open fire and listen a fairy tale under the tree. Kids even have their nap there in sleeping bags!
