Stockholm environmentalist tour
Photo: Lennart af Petersens, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, has been a forerunner in the environmentalist movement and sustainable development. This tour is a showcase of polluting infrastructure and environmental protection, as well as sites of the environmentalist movement, and the dilemmas of limiting the footprint of a city of a million citizens.
UnderstandSweden has had a prominent role in the natural sciences since the 18th century, with Carl Linnaeus founding systematic biology, and Anders Celsius inventing the 100-degree temperature scale.
Get inWhile Stockholm has several airports nearby, a greener approach would be a train from Oslo or Copenhagen; see Rail and bus travel in Sweden; occasional trains arrive all the way from Hamburg.
Get aroundPublic transport in Stockholm County is run by SL. Since 2018, all buses are fossil-free.
DestinationsDjurgården literally means "animal yard" and was Royal hunting grounds, partially enclosed. Hjorthagen is a neighborhood named by the Royal deer enclosure.
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- Photo: Lennart af Petersens, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons