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For more and continuous info on Nordic music and musicians touring the U.S. and North America, see Calendar at www.nordicreach.com. Musicians covered in this issue, see
Peter Morén - www.peterbjornandjohn.com
Tobias Fröberg - www.tobiasfroberg.com
Teitur - www.teitur.com
Theresa Andersson - www.myspace.com/theresaanderssonmusic
Mostly Mozart program at the Lincoln center - www.lincolncenter.org

Traveling in Småland is easy. Not only are the roads good and everything at a convenient distance, public transportation is just what you would expect in a West European country, with trains and buses running smoothly and frequently. Traveling by car from Stockholm, you would go south on the expressway E4 to Jönköping, about 4.5 hours southwest of Stockholm, then East to reach the glass district and the Småland coastal areas or take the coastal route, E22, from Norrköping, 2.5 hours south of Stockholm, to Kalmar. Traveling from Copenhagen Denmark, you can take either the bridge over Öresund to Malmö, then go north on E6/E4 to Jönköping or go through the inland on smaller roads leading through häslleholm in northern Skåne, then to Växjö, in Småland’s center.
The train from Stockholm to Jönköping will take 3 to 3.5 hours, you have at least five or six departures every day and it could cost anywhere from $100 to $200 one way. Traveling by train from the south, you would pick Växjö as your first destination, under 2 hours north of Malmö across the bridge from Copenhagen and at a cost of $40-$60 one way.
For more info, see:
http://www.visit-smaland.com
http://www.smaland-oland.com
http://www.utvandrarnashus.se
http://www.vaxjo.se/english
http://www.jonkoping.se/english
http://www.kalmarslott.kalmar.se
http://www.orrefors.se
http//www.orreforshotell.se
General Scandinavian travel and tourist information: www.goscandinavia.com

Hello Minnesota
Kare 11, the #1 television station in Minneapolis-St Paul. For more info, see www.kare11.com
Information on the Norwegian American Chamber of Commerce, see www.nacc.no/minneapolis
On the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce, see www.sacc-minnesota.org


Living Sustainable in Scandinavia
The Global Ecovillage Network will surprise you. Ecovillages are not a new phenomenon and this website offers directory listings from every corner of the world: www.ecovillage.org (Some of these villages, in the USA, may actually be quite close to you.)
Here are some useful links for eco living in Scandinavia:
www.eceat.com - European Center for Eco Agro Tourism
www.permakultur.se - Swedish Association for permaculture
www.naturligt-byggeri.org - Swedish clay-building Association
http://hem.fyristorg.com/assets - a list of eco villages in Sweden
www.hammarbysjostad.se - Hammarby Sjostad

Going for the Green / The One Big Thing
For information on the Stockholm U.S. embassy’s and ambassador Wood’s One Big Thing, see http://stockholm.usembassy.gov/Environment and for information on some of the participating Swedish companies and/or their counterparts in the USA, see
Chemrec - www.chemrec.se
NewPage - www.newpagecorp.com
The Michigan Center of Energy Excellence (COEE) at the University of Kettering, Flint, Mich. - www.kettering.edu
Swedish Biogas International - www.swedishbiogasint.com
Scandinavian Biogas - www.scandinavianbiogas.se