Environmental principles

Putting sustainable development into practice.

We aim to operate The Nordic Centre as sustainably as possible in everything we do.

Energy

We have installed a heat pump system which takes natural energy from the ground to run the heating . All buildings are insulated to conserve energy as much as possible.

We are investigating solar and wind energy options in collaboration with the local community.

Recycling

Sweden has a very advanced infrastructure for recycling almost all materials, and an excellent recycling centre is close -by in the village. We expect all visitors to comply. We re-use as much material as we can on the farm including food waste and composting. Many of our facilities have been constructed from recycled materials particularly timber.

Water.

Water use is metered. We collect rain water for irrigation.

Food.

We use local supplies wherever possible including our own grown vegetables and eggs. We aim to expand the organic farm operation over coming years.

Travel.

For local travel we try to minimise car use and we are part of a local group investigating more sustainable transport here. We aim to find an acceptable means of off-setting carbon emissions for ourselves adn our guests.

Community.

We are part of a local development – Transition Towns – working towards a vision for a community based upon sustainable development.

Principles.

We use the System Conditiions of The Natural Step to guide all our decisions and activities – www.thenaturalstep.org.