PinnedAarne Granlund·Sep 18Can an e-MTB replace driving in rural North Karelia?An e-MTB can replace driving in the rural Northeast. It is cheaper and more fun!A response icon1A response icon1
Aarne Granlund·Sep 23The 2026 Oil Crisis Calls for Sufficiency in TransportOn Monday, the 21st of September 2026, I noticed how expensive diesel is on my walk to the grocery store. I’ve never seen it above 2.5 € in…A response icon1A response icon1
Aarne Granlund·Sep 19Free the Palokki RapidsRemoving the Palokki dam in Heinävesi is important to me as a rural North Karelian living in the neighbouring Liperi municipality. I’ve…
Aarne Granlund·Sep 24, 2019My Low-Carbon LifeThere has been considerable debate over personal lifestyles changes as a political means to achieve society-wide decarbonization.A response icon1A response icon1
Aarne Granlund·Aug 30, 2019When a friend casually asks why some politicians want to tax aviation“Domestic aviation is not the biggest problem, the problem is global growth. 80 % of aviation is 1500+ km. (A certain Nordic airline) will…
Aarne Granlund·Feb 13, 2018Ilmastonmuutoksen aiheuttamat henkiset reaktiotLöysin hiljattain erittäin mielenkiintoisen tutkimuksen vaikeiden tulevaisuuden ilmastovaikutusten viestimisen aiheuttamista tunnetiloista…
Aarne Granlund·Oct 18, 2017Something We Lack, Something We NeedBeing honest about climate change is something that has eluded our species, our culture, our economies and our behavior for a long time.
Aarne Granlund·Aug 30, 2017Three Things We (Still in 2020) Don’t Understand About Climate EmergencyThinking about climate change is not something that comes naturally to humans — or ‘consumers’ as we have called ourselves for decades. It…A response icon22A response icon22
Aarne Granlund·Mar 10, 2017The Secondary RealityClimate change is hard to think about in an emotional sense. There are dark periods of political inaction and hostility, emerging security…
Aarne Granlund·Feb 11, 2017Embrace the UncannyA gaping disparity has appeared between what Amitav Ghosh in The Great Derangement calls ‘bourgeois belief in the regularity of the world’…