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alternative energy

Ashes to ashes, heat to homes

In a world that’s increasingly looking under every imaginable rock for a new potential energy source, can it come as a surprise that cremation could become a community heating source? That’s the case in the Swedish town of Halmstad, where cemetery operators have found a silver energy lining

forestry

Trees 'could halt climate change'

Sweden’s largest forest owner and woodpulp producer claims if half the world’s forests were run like Sweden’s the entire greenhouse effect would be eliminated. Research by Södra found that a radical overhaul of global forestry along Swedish lines would see carbon locked in a growing reserve of