BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Norway has just announced another reason why it’s one of the best places on Earth. Earlier this month in Oslo, Norway, the government began offering its residents money to buy an electric cargo bike. Previously to this…
Why we should all be practicing Friluftsliv – Norway’s philosophy of getting back to nature
BY: KIRSTEN POWLEY By now we all know that Scandinavia has it down when it comes to happiness and society values. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know that Danes, notably the happiest people in the world according…
This family built their own eco-house under a solar dome in the Arctic Circle (photos)
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP How eco-friendly are you teaching your children to be? Probably not living in a self-built, sustainable, eco-home under a solar geodesic dome, eco-friendly. Hjertefølger means heart follower in Norwegian, and the Hjertefølger family are definitely living up…
Why the rest of the world needs to start following Norway’s lead on saving the environment
BY: Zoe Melnyk Norway’s plans to end deforestation and ban gas-powered cars are quickly making it one of the greenest countries in the world. Just last month, Norway promised to ban deforestation. That’s a huge leap most countries in the…
Anti-immigrant vigilantes are patrolling the streets of Europe, and locals seem to be ok with it
BY: M. TOMOSKI Founded in September 2015 by Mika Ranta, a self-described neo-Nazi and ex-convict, the Soldiers of Odin (SOO) is a vigilante group that has spread across Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Norway, Denmark, the UK, Canada, the United States…
Norway will invest $923 Million to develop a super network of bike highways
BY: STEFANIE AWRONSKI Cycling has long been seen as one of the healthiest modes of transportation. It gets you away from being inactive and sedentary behind the wheel of a car to being physically active and connecting with the beauty…
A dream vacation just became one man’s full-time job
BY: CAROLINE ROLF What if you had the opportunity to walk across Norway on foot, exploring the country’s incredible streams and mountains? This would be the ideal vacation for most adventurers, and it just became a full-time job for…
The simple reason why Norway has been named the best country for humans 12-years in a row
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE For the twelfth year in a row, Norway has been named the best country on earth to be a human in. According to the Human Development Report, Norway ranks the highest in life expectancy at an average…
Norway’s capital is investing in the future by going car-free
Oslo is banning all private vehicles in its city centre by the year 2019. The city elected the leftist Labour Party this past September, who teamed up with the Green Party and the Socialist Left to make the change. The…
Norway is getting a man in a penis suit to fake ejaculate on people for sexual health
BY: LISA CUMMING A devious penis is running wild through the streets of Norway and showering people in gold. So maybe it’s not so much an actual anatomically correct penis, but a guy in very phallic-like dress. The stunt is…
One man quit his high-paying desk job to become a dogwalker in the stunning Norwegian woods (Video)
BY: MATTHEW CHIN After nearly five years of working an office job in finance, Matt Hein quit and moved to Oslo, Norway. At 26, Hein realized there should be more to life than biting his nails in commuter traffic and…
Norway’s prison island treats inmates like they’re at a resort
BY: MATTHEW CHIN When I think of prison, I think of orange jumpers, hands and ankles shackled together with the chains scraping against the concrete floor and the terrible sound of rattling jail cells as batons graze against the metal…