Næsten tre år som bruger AURA Delebil i Aarhus, og de lukker om nogle uger…
En leasingbil til den billigste pris i byen har været en freaking drøm. Jeg har været til så mange smukke steder i Jylland (og Fyn!) takket være fri km og fri strøm.
Men de lukker. Ffs. GreenMobility er så begrænset og så dyrt for mig – lige som den offentligt transport.
Apparently there’s a conspiracy theory that 15-minute cities are urban prisons where residents must wear QR codes that track their restricted movements. As opposed to the reality: mixed-use neighbourhoods so handy that signposts can use walking minutes as the unit of distance to the library, theatres, cafés, community services, museums, parks and shops.
Another sign that a 15-minute city is a lively mixed-use place: a hardware store opened on a main city square in the shadow of the cathedral.
It's the kind of flagship space where you’d usually find a designer bag store. It rents drills, sack trolleys and tools by the hour. That can only make commercial sense when a city centre is not just for businesses and the rich, but for ordinary people living just around the corner in ordinary homes.
My most recent work was as a contracts negotiator, including NDA and DPA, for a Danish tech company.
Please let me know if you know about an opportunity in a great work environment, or if you know someone who could point me in the right direction to find a role that aligns with my skills and values.
A nice attempt by our council to reduce single-use waste. A new deposit system with reusable cups for takeaway coffee. You pay a deposit of 5 kr. (less than €1) for the cup, then get your money back at one of the cup-recycling stations they’ve installed around the city.
It’s a three-year trial. If all goes well, pizza boxes will be next.
Many Icelanders tend to think that #Icelandic is the only #language which has its own version of #placenames. They also think of these names as translations. They usually aren't.
For instance #Kyiv is Kænugarður. The name comes from the Viking Age when some Norse (often Swedes) went east while the more famous ones went west.
Another example is the #Danish#Aarhus. The Icelandic Árósar retains the original meaning of "the river mouth" while the modern Danish name is a bit like "river house".
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Hooray, finally cold enough to wear my hat with ear flaps. I haven’t worn it much in recent years. I'd like to think it makes me look like the sort of person who cross-country skis at the weekend, but I just look like Ignatius J. Reilly.
Tiny flakes of tiny sleet are falling, but no snow. Not much snow in recent years. Will today's baby Danes grow up without thinking that toboggans are a natural part of a toy chest?
‘Feels like’: a lot colder than these numbers say.
I’ve never seen the sea cover the lower promenade before. The lifebelt station needs a lifebelt. That 1000 m2 mural across the water represents the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. In season, cruise ships dock in front of it.
Extinction Rebellion protestors calling for a car-free city blocked the road by City Hall for two hours on Sunday. Police had to stop one man driving his car through the activists. Another driver leapt out of his car to stage a counter-protest. ‘He rushed up to them with an Isræli flag. When they pointed out it wasn’t a Gaza demonstration, he scurried back to his car.’
Fossil fools. Ah well. I hope the other animals have a ball after we’re gone.
We really need to stop buying into the argument that #ClimateActivists are "radical" or "destructive". The opposite is true: the nature of the protests have been peaceful and, on the whole, pretty tame.
The idea that, say, sitting on a road is "radical", "extreme" and "criminal" came from a bunch of #FossilFuel aligned think tanks, parroted by the media.
Reject them.
The framing needs to be: Fossil fuel companies are radical, extreme, criminal.
"The UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders under the #Aarhus Convention, Michel Forst, released a position paper on state repression of environmental protest and #CivilDisobedience: a major threat to human rights and democracy.
The paper concludes with five calls for action to States to make a profound change in how they respond to environmental protest, and also urges the human rights community to coordinate their efforts to support this call for action."