Welcome to Lena Lindahl's English homepage.
I am from Sweden and I have worked in the interface between Japan and other countries since 1989.
Currently I specialize in promoting learning exchanges between Sweden and Japan in the field of sustainability, environment and energy.

Contact: llindahl@igc.org

Lena Lindahl　　Profile
Sustainability Consultant
Member of the Sustainable Sweden Association


　　　

I can provide the follow services for companies, organizations and media from outside Japan:

- interpretation Japanese/English and Japanese/Swedish
- help with setting up meetings and planning the schedule for your visit so that your time can be spent efficiently
- research about Japanese environmental legislation and policies from Japanese sources
- for media I can do research in advance and I can help find persons to interview. I have a big network after all my years in Japan. I can set up interviews and plan logistics.
- write articles about various environmental or sustainability topics, including interviews.
- in some cases I can also set up lecturing opportunities for lecturers coming from abroad, even a lecturing tour. In such cases I may be able to find some of the funding.
- arrange eco-tours or study visits for just a day or several days. I cooperate with a travel agency specializing in tours with a sustainabilty focus.

Other ideas about what you might want to do to promote sustainabilty in Japan are also welcome!

Last English update: 15 November 2008

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★　Interview with Lena Lindahl by Joanna Stefanska and Wolfgang Hafenmayer who travel around the world interviewing people for a book with the title "MyImpact". Read more about their project on the MyImpact page (March 2006).

Interview with Lena Lindahl on the Think the Earth homepage (April 2001).

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About the newsletter "Sweden Environment News"

For 7 years ( 1997-2003 ) I published a Japanese language newsletter called "Sweden Environment News" about environment and energy issues in Sweden and Sweden's efforts to become a sustainable society ("Sustainable Sweden"). It consisted of three A4-size pages and I sent it out to paying subscribers monthly by fax and e-mail from my base in Tokyo. I am now planning to put all the back numbers in pdf format on the Japanese page for the newsletter where some back numbers are already available. The newsletter paved the way for much of my other work such as lectures in Japan and study tours to Sweden.

Sustainable Sweden Tours

Since 2002 I organize Sustainable Sweden Tours for Japanese speakers together with the Sustainable Sweden Association and the company Esam, both based in the northern part of Sweden.


Learning about environmental
education in a school.

The Sustainable Sweden Association also organizes tours for English speakers. See their homepage for more information.

Here you can see a travel report in English by Mariko Harada who joined the first Sustainable Sweden Tour for Japanese speakers.

The Natural Step for Communities - How Cities and Towns can Change to Sustainable Practices

This is a book written by Torbjorn Lahti, Chairman of the Sustainable Sweden Association, and Sarah James who participated in one of the tours for English speakers. In the book you can read about many good examples. We visit some of them on the tours.



You can order the book from the Canadian publisher, New Society Publishers, here. If you use a credit card, you can order it directly on the home page.

If you can read Swedish, you can read about the tour concept in a Swedish book, "Det goda exemplets makt" available here. The book also introduces tours organized by my colleagues in Japan, Peo and Satoko Ekberg. We both started organizing tours with a similar concept without knowing about each other. Recently we cooperate while remaining independent. The book is a result of cooperation between our respective tour partners in Sweden. Peo has partners on the island of Gotland in the south of Sweden, while my partners are in Umea, in the north of Sweden.

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Some English links with sustainability, environment and energy information on Japan:

Japan for Sustainability

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For general news on Japan, I recommendJapan Today.

General news in English is also provided by Kyodo News.

You can listen to radio news broadcasts in many languages at NHK World Radio Japan.

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(c) Lena Lindahl 1999-2008