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Project “Ecovillages for sustainable rural development”

Suderbyn is leading a project named “Ecovillages for sustainable rural development”, that is related to the EU’s Baltic Sea Strategy and its Action Plan for environmentally sustainable ways of living.
The project aims at helping our society to get closer to nature again and to develop new ways of living together on the land in a genuinely more sustainable way. This is especially important given the climate crisis and resource shortages that we face. The eco-village concept is an innovation offering solutions to many resource, climate and social life problems societies of the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) face. Eco-villages are an alternative to the individualistic, consumerist and commodified systems that many cities represent. 


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Ecological design

Eco-villages are built for an organic design, which is a detailed plan in which different environmental solutions and aspects are worked for. The ecological design includes such sustainable solutions to the building (to build with locally produced environmentally friendly products), energy (the use of renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and hydro) environmentally friendly manufacturing (the example uses the people instead of machines) permaculture (landscaping with plants in focus, where one example. dams and dikes in improving the conditions for the plants). The major objective of the eco-village are to become self-sufficient, which means ekobyn produce their own food. By the ecological design can be eco-villages are closer to this goal, especially through permaculture.

Suderbyn principles

Ekobyars principles can be implemented in both urban and rural areas and in developing and developed countries. Ecovillages advocating a sustainable lifestyle, this is defined very differently, Suderbyn recommend both large and small everyday changes. As to bike instead of car, cutting back on meat eating and that the waste sorting, etc. Suderbyn recommend mostly minor changes that can be kept alive than major changes that are difficult to implement. In the end it's up to everyone to help improve the environment and we choose for ourselves how much we want to contribute.


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Genetic 'Rosetta Stone' unveiled in Nature "Scientists have developed a new community resource that may act as a Rosetta Stone for revealing the genetic basis of traits and disease"


“One of the grand challenges of biology is to understand how genetic variants and environmental factors interact to produce variation in complex phenotypes such as height, behaviors, and disease susceptibility within populations. This effort has been stymied by the lack of knowledge of all genetic variants in a population of a genetically tractable model organism. The DGRP sequences provide such a resource,” Mackay noted.”