Why Gothenburg is Europe’s most sustainable city OLD Abigail Lowe
The Swedes have a knack for the good life.
Their general contentment sees them consistently placed in the world’s top 10 happiest citizens; they are the inventors of
allemansratten, otherwise known as everyone’s right to roam free among nature; and even the daily ritual of tucking into coffee and cake is serious business –
fika is considered as much a state of mind as a necessary break from the day’s chores.
They’re a glass half full kind of nation, so when faced with the raft of issues affecting the planet today, they rise swiftly and with quiet determination to the challenge.