Krastina is a Masters student in the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen, Norway. She is a part of the Economics program in Energy, Natural Resources and the Environment. Her research and interests are related to the sustainable use of natural resources, environmental taxation, sustainable energy, urbanism and recycling. She holds a double degree in International Economics and Mathematics from Saint Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, NY. Her background includes international work in the financial and accounting sectors. Krastina loves traveling, museums and arts, Modernism and modern architecture. Favorite places in the world are Berlin, New York City and Bergen. Currently, Krastina is a member of the BSI Karate Club in Bergen where she is the yearly treasurer.
Although most of the world has left whaling behind, Norwegians cling to the tradition. A new documentary invites discussion about Norway’s whaling traditions, the use of whales as food and the subsidies the government uses to prop up a dying industry.
As part of Norway’s growing agricultural awareness movement, the city of Bergen developed a program to lease out pieces of farmland known as “parsellhager,” or “garden parcels.” The only requirement a city-based farmer has to comply with is to grow just organic produce.
Even when you buy fancy organic salmon from Norway, it might be having a negative impact on the environment. The European Commission’s new organic rules hope to change that.
People have been producing organic food and using organic ways of farming for thousands of years. But the arrival of synthetic fertilizers and agrichemicals during World War II opened a path for heavy mechanization and chemically dependent farming methods so large in scale that they overshadowed centuries of organic-production practices.
Most of the food in Abu Dhabi’s tourist sector is imported. At the large scale that is needed for all of the hotels’ operations, it is difficult to get it locally. Still, a lot of food goes to waste. Sanaa Iqbal Pirani, a researcher on food waste management at the Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi, talks about the ways to change that.
In the Philippines, plastic fishing nets that have been discarded in the sea kill large numbers of fish and other marine animals, reducing the catches of local fishermen. A new program is attempting to solve this problem by turning the old fishing nets into carpets.
There is only one metaphor that could depict the deliciousness of this cake. The combination of honey and nuts melt in your mouth and they slide along your tongue the same way as a skier would slide his/her skies on the snowy and fluffy slopes in Switzerland.
Liter of Light Switzerland (LoL) is part of a larger movement that works towards bringing eco-friendly “bottled light” to communities with no electricity. Through the use of plastic bottles, water, bleach, sun and a bit of special glue, they aim to spread an alternative cheap source of energy.
BERGEN, Norway – You hear the noise of an ambulance and you know that something is wrong. The medical workers are taking to the hospital another victim of a drug overdose. But the shabby man is shaking his head. He is grumbling about something:
“Why did you call them? Do you know how much money I have paid for it?” he says.