北欧绿色邮报报道（记者陈雪霏）——2月14日，斯德哥尔摩少有的阳光灿烂，格外晴朗。由中国驻瑞典大使馆，瑞典东方博物馆和瑞典华人总会组织的中国羊年庆祝活动就是在这样的吉祥如意的天气里如期在斯德哥尔摩举行了。

中国驻瑞典大使陈育明说，羊年春节还有五天就到了，羊在中国文化中是吉祥的象征，相信这个羊年将给中瑞关系的发展带来好运。

“今天老天也非常给力，给了我们这个阳光灿烂的早晨。我们希望今天的活动能够圆满成功！”

他说，中国与瑞典相隔万水千山，但两国人民心灵相通，友谊源远流长，双方文化交流绽放了绚丽的火花，转化为两国交往史上浓墨重彩的华章。哥德堡号商船，曾在两国间穿梭，搭起沟通的桥梁，瑞典探险家，斯文.赫定在中国发现楼兰古城， 瑞典考古学家安德生在中国发现仰韶文化遗址和马家窑文化，这些都成为中国考古史上精彩的一页。

他还说，今年正值中瑞建交65周年。在过去五年中，中瑞关系全面深入地发展，双边合作日益深入。两国高层互访频繁，加深了双边政治关系。深入实际的合作与民间交往十分密切。中国文化在瑞典吸引了越来越多瑞典人的兴趣，尤其是在2012年莫言获得诺贝尔文学奖之后。汉语桥大中学生汉语比赛吸引了很多学生学习汉语。孔子学院有其特殊的魅力，秦汉兵马俑的展出和中国节都在瑞典受到欢迎。

陈大使说，庆祝中国春节，展示中国当代文化是传播中国文化，加强双边文化交流的一个很好的品牌。

他还特别指出今天正赶上西方的传统节日情人节，“我们相聚在中西方文化的交汇点，预示着中瑞文化交流将迎来新的春天。”陈大使最后还入乡随俗地用瑞典语向上千观众祝贺新年好－Gott Nytt År!

东方博物馆馆长李东对大使馆11年来的支持与合作表示感谢，他尤其感谢今年使馆文化处请来国内的民乐团到这里来进行专业演出。他同时对瑞典华人总会和瑞华文化交流联合会每年的合作表示感谢。

庆祝活动从中午12点半就在市中心的赛格广场开始了。武术协会总教练行善带领小伙子们舞龙，瑞华文化交流联合会会长王钰清带领各个协会的女同胞跳了《爱我中华》民族服装展示舞蹈。

两个瑞典年轻人舞狮活灵活现，赢得观众的喝彩。到1:30分，舞龙舞狮队伍从赛格广场走到两站地以外的东方博物馆。一路上来来往往的人群川流不息，因为东方博物馆从12:00就开始了，一直持续四个小时。早些时候过来的人，也有先回去的。

在大使讲话前后，瑞典中国文化协会的舞蹈队表演了扇舞和太极拳。舞龙舞狮队伍再次表演。民族服装队伍再次展示中国56个民族的不同服饰。吸引了数百名瑞典和中国的大人和孩子们。

在室内，茶艺，剪纸，书法和折纸都吸引了很多观众。

另外在北京厅，来自山东济南的民乐团也为中瑞观众献上了精彩纯正的民乐表演，二胡，古筝一应具全。

当晚，中国驻瑞大使陈育明和夫人白晓梅参赞在使馆举行招待会，和当地华人华侨一起共庆中国羊年春节。

今年的春节庆祝活动似乎比往年多。

Envac 副经理约纳斯接受北欧绿色邮报Greenpost主编陈雪霏的采访。

Envac 是瑞典著名的绿色科技公司。他们用长距离抽吸的办法，可以避免垃圾横行，使城市更清洁更环保。

该技术从1967年就开始使用了。Envac 副经理约纳斯接受北欧绿色邮报Greenpost主编陈雪霏的采访。

Stockholm International Film Festival presents a new award

CulturePosted by chenxuefei Thu, May 28, 2015 14:21:08

By Xuefei Chen Axelsson

STOCKHOLM, May 28(Greenpost) — Stockholm International Film Festival to be held during Nov. 11-22 will present a new international film award: Stockholm Impact Award with a prize sum of 1 million SEK (approx. 120 000 USD).

Git Scheynius, festival director said the prize is one of the biggest film awards in the world.

“We are proud to present this new award, which will be one of the biggest film awards in the world. Several factors point to Stockholm as an ideal platform, the timing after Toronto and AFM is attractive for a European launch. The festival has great experience with high profile directors who’ve enjoyed the distinctive Nordic ambience of the city.”

Impact is a section for headstrong visionaries who reflect our contemporary world.The prize of 1 million SEK should be used as a support for the further work and development of new film projects.

Between seven and ten films from all over the world will participate in the competition. The films should be at least 72 minutes long and have their world, international or European premiere at Stockholm Film Festival.

All the competing directors will be invited to the festival to present their films and to take part in a seminar held at the City Hall in Stockholm. The prize is made possible with the contribution of City of Stockholm.

The 26th Stockholm International Film Festival November 11-22 2015.

Stockholm International Film Festival started in 1990 and is today one of the leading competitive film festivals in Europe. The festival takes place every year in November with more than 200 films from more than 60 countries. More than a festival: we organize exclusive screenings and the popular Summer Cinema – an outdoor mini-festival. Every year in spring the Stockholm International Film Festival Junior brings the latest films to youngsters between 6 and 16 years of age.

STOCKHOLM, May 25(Greenpost)– Music Tech Fest (MTF) is a three day long festival of music ideas. It began in London in 2012 and has since toured Berlin, Boston, London, Wellington and Paris. Now it has come to Umeå and Sliperiet at Umeå University, Sweden. The mission is to create new music formats and invent new musical instruments, software and experiences through experimentation and play – exploring technology, voice and movement, according to news reaching here from Umeå, northern Sweden.

Sliperiet invited Music Tech Fest founder Michela Magas and director Andrew Dubber to Umeå in 2014 and asked them to bring the festival to the city to host a Music Tech Fest for the whole of Scandinavia. As a result of that visit, they decided to move their home-base and global festival headquarters from Britain to the newly opened innovation centre at Umeå University and Umeå Arts Campus.

“We were so impressed with the culture, intellectual energy and lifestyle here. This is where we want to live,” says Michela Magas.

“MTF is an interactive meeting place for artists, performers, researchers, entrepreneurs, academia and the music industry. The festival has brought together partners like Warner Music, SoundCloud, BBC, Sonos, Spotify, Shazam, among many others,” says Marlene Johansson, director of Sliperiet who co-hosts the festival.

She also points out that the festival means a lot to establishing Sliperiet as it attracts international bloggers, hackers, artists, media and industry seeking to interact and co-create with talents and businesses in the Nordic region. The vision is to produce an annual Music Tech Fest Scandinavia in Umeå.

“Sweden is the world’s largest music exporter per capita. Umeå is at the forefront of music, design, art and innovation. It’s a buzzing city and a fantastic weekend destination surrounded by some of the most breathtaking nature you’ll ever encounter – it also just happens to have the fastest broadband connection in the Western world. Umeå is the ideal platform for MTF Scandinavia,” says Andrew Dubber.

The festival is open to the public and is free of charge.

Music Tech Fest Scandinavia is:

• An interactive music experience where the line between stage and audience is blurred.
• A weekend-long workshop where people can invent and explore new ways of creating music.
• A collaborative co-creative space for the future of music.
• A playful and groundbreaking experiential milieu.
• An international meeting place for musicians, hackers, artists, makers, music industry professionals, creative people, technology startups, music lovers and geeks of all kinds.

The program includes:

• Back-to-back performances and live demonstrations of music tech throughout the weekend on the main outdoor stage
• 24-hour hackathon competition in music technology and instrument invention
• Volvo Kids Hackathon – where children learn to build and perform with creative technologies
• Toontrack Trackathon competition for music producers
• Jam Camp where anyone can pick up and instrument and play
• Innovations in music and technology
• Presentations, demonstrations and hands-on exploration
• Academic symposium

Music Tech Fest is being held in collaboration with Sliperiet and Umeå Arts Campus.

STOCKHOLM, May 25(Greenpost)– Delegates from more than 90 countries took the unprecedented step of voting for a global ban on pentachlorophenol – a proven toxic pesticide and contaminant found in wildlife and human biomonitoring studies worldwide, according to news reaching here from Swetzerland.

The historic vote came at the combined meetings of the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions – which usually make decisions by consensus – after India repeatedly blocked action.

During the meeting, India surprisingly rejected the findings of the Stockholm Convention’s own scientific expert committee in which they participated. Switzerland triggered the voting procedure – the first in the history of the convention. Ninety-four countries voted in favor of global prohibition of pentachlorophenol; two opposed; and eight countries abstained.

“We commend the global community for this important decision which will help ensure that the Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic and the traditional foods on which they depend are protected against toxic pentachlorophenol,” said Pamela Miller of Alaska Community Action on Toxics.

The delegates of the Stockholm Convention also supported international bans on two other industrial chemicals that harm the global environment and human health: chlorinated naphthalenes and hexachlorobutadiene.

Delegates at the Rotterdam Convention failed to list two deadly substances, chrysotile asbestos and a paraquat formulation, despite the fact that exporters would simply have been required to notify and get permission from importing countries. Belarus, Cuba, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, and Russia all opposed listing chrysotile asbestos. Guatemala, India, Indonesia, and Paraguay blocked listing of the paraquat formulation.

“All the candidate substances meet the Convention criteria according to the treaty’s own expert committee,” said Mariann Lloyd-Smith, IPEN Sr. Policy Advisor. “That means that a small handful of opposing countries and their powerful industry representatives undermined the treaty with a political decision that disrespects governments’ right to know what substances are entering their borders. They simply put their own economic and trade interests before the health and well-being of the global environment and its inhabitants.”

The Basel Convention considered e-waste guidelines that would exempt equipment destined for repair from the treaty’s hazardous waste trade control procedures, a measure that would open the door to unscrupulous traders claiming all broken equipment as “repairable.” The

Convention President pushed a decision to adopt this exemption after the meeting lost interpretation due to the late night hour. Latin American countries protested the procedure and conduct of the meeting.

“Developing countries struggling with e-waste would benefit from good Basel ewaste guidelines,” said Tadesse Amera, Pesticide Action Nexus, Ethiopia. “But they do not want

loopholes that allow dumping under the excuse of repair. We needed stronger measures, not a weakened treaty.

The EU pushed dangerous clean-up standards of 1000 ppm for three toxic flame retardant chemicals widely used in building insulation, upholstery and electronics (HBCD, PentaBDE, and OctaBDE). In contrast, the waste clean-up limit for PCBs and other substances already listed in the treaty is 50 ppm – 20 times lower than the EU proposal. For the first time, delegates settled on two options for HBCD (100 ppm or 1000 ppm) and two options for PentaBDE and OctaBDE (50 ppm or 1000 ppm). Although the EU pushed a weak standard that undermines the Stockholm Convention, China and Iran pushed for the more protective standards (50 ppm and 100 ppm) that are more consistent with the serious threats posed by POPs.