Green Islands gave a energy seminar on Skeppsholmen on the 13´nth of May. 18 students from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) have been looking into different energy efficient and sustainable techniques that can be applicable on some of the houses in the archipelago. The students were handed nine different energy assignments were sustainability, energy Read more…

Kajsa Mellbrand presented the results from the boat tourism survey of the Green Islands project during a seminar at Aronia in Ekenäs, Finland. The survey investigates Baltic Sea environmental attitudes and how environment affects activities of boat tourists in the archipelago. The results show that in particular algal blooms and eutrophication is considered a problem Read more…

Green Islands had a Groundwater mapping seminar on the 10-th May on Muhu. The seminar was held in Muhu town hall and was attended by officials from the municipality, groundwater mapping experts and project personnel. The groundwater mapping consultant presented the results of their work and explained how the map/tool work and how it can Read more…

There is an article about the Green Islands project in the local newspaper “Muhulane” on Muhu in Estonia. “Human influence to the ground water quality“ Click on the paper to download (PDF)                      

In the Green Islands project, bachelor student Anne Palkeinen from Novia University of Applied Sciences, Finland has recently finished her exam project on the attitudes of boat tourists to Baltic Sea environment. Anne´s project is a part of the ecosystem service research done within the Green Islands project at the Aronia Research and Development Institute Read more…

The Archipelago Foundation and Aquaria teamed up for the exhibition “Skräpet ska upp till ytan”. The exhibition can be seen on Aquaria in Stockholm and will be open until March 17th. Here you can see how much waste thats been left on the bottom of two small harbors. Green Islands have one of the information Read more…

Cecilia Wibjörn participated in the toolbox seminar in Riga. Green Islands was one of 32 projects that got together in Riga on February the 20th, for clustering and learning on good examples regarding keeping project results alive. As many projects are coming to an end during 2013, the topic of project closure and maintenance of Read more…

Green Islands eight working group meeting took place on the 21st of February in Helsinki, Finland. On the agenda was the project results. Rolf Holmberg and Kajsa Mellbrand presented their work with carbon dioxide emissions and ecosystem services.

The Archipelago Foundation and Aquaria water museum have teamed up for a great cause. – We want to raise peoples awareness when it comes to littering and recycling, says Karin Strandfager Environmental manager at the Archipelago foundation.   The Archipelago foundation has during a ten year period used divers to clean the sea floor in Read more…

Green Islands and The Archipelago foundation have once more been fortunate to receive help from KTH-students. There are five more energy projects that need to be looked at. Two students, Kaj Maass and Eric Mugisha are going to look into the possibility to change the insulation in the hostel on Fejan. The existing insulation works Read more…