Tour Topics

Tour topics

Participants will have the opportunity to meet their municipal and business counterparts in eco-municipalities across Sweden to learn about:

• How they have systematically changed to sustainable practices
• How they have trained staff and local residents
• How eco-municipalities operate
• Models of collaboration between eco-municipalities, local businesses and the community
• Sustainable regional economic development

Highlights

Tour Highlight 

The Tour includes participating on the first International Eco-municpality Conference.
Meet the history and the future of the Swedish Eco-municipality movement. You will meet the founders of the movement as well as their latest projects.

GreenZone — a unique business park development that takes an ecocyclic approach to design and operation. GreenZone was developed with a holistic view that endeavors to conserve natural resources within the building sector without compromising function or comfort. GreenZone’s principal architect,Anders Nyquist, will tell us all about the ground-breaking process of designing and building GreenZone (where, for example, every construction worker was trained in the Natural Step framework before construction began) and about the sustainable technologies used at GreenZone. 

Green Zone

People

During the tour you will meet some key profiles in swedish as well as international sustainability movement. Here are some examples.

dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt Founder of the Natural Step	Lars Thunberg Chairman of the board of Swedish Ecomunicipalities.
dr. Manfred Max-Neef economist and Winner of the Right Livelyhood Award	Torbjörn Lahti Founder of Esam AB, and  chairman of Sustainable Sweden
Anders Nyquist Green Building Architect	Anders Carlgren Minister for the Environment  (Swedish Goverment)

Itinerary & Programme

Itinerary & Programme

The Tour constitutes of two parts, one northern and one souther part. You are able to go on both and get a broader picture of Swedish experiences and examples or only on one part to get a shorter and cheaper tour. In the pdf you will more information about the places we will go to and what to expect.

Brief Itinerary: 

• May 17th: Arrival, Stockholm
• May 18-19th: Umeå
• May 20th: Robertsfors
• May 21st: Stockholm (last day of northern Tour)
• May 22nd: Stockholm (new arrivals southern tour)
• May 23rd: Järna
• May 24th-25th: Falkenberg
• May 26th: Helsingborg
• May 27-29th: Helsingborg — International Eco-Municipality Conference
• May 30th: Departure 
  

Download the full Itinerary and Programme  [1.5MB]

Tour Contacts & Pricing

Tour contacts 

Susanne Eriksson: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Swedish Tour Contact. Co-ordinator

Lisa MacKinnon: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

U.S. Tour Contact

Pricing & Reservation

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