Iceland's Low-Carbon Illusion

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It's your friends at the Reykjavík Grapevine (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), popping back into your inbox with a hello and to bring you the latest reads from our mag and news from Iceland.

FROM THE MAG

Another new issue of the Grapevine hit the streets this weekend. The cover feature looks into Iceland’s carbon footprint, or rather the low-carbon illusion created by only considering the emissions made within Iceland’s borders rather than considering how many global emissions Iceland, as a heavily importing country, is responsible for. Read the cover feature right here (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).

Did you pick up any new hobbies during the pandemic? A friend of Grapevine journalist Iryna started birdwatching. That inspired Iryna to seek out an avid birder to learn the tricks of the trade. It includes streaming birdsong, a floating hide and Iryna being carried over wet ground for a better vantage point. Give it a read right now (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).

Other must reads from the Grapevine

• It’s getting harder and harder to make ends meet. Here’s a look at one person’t side hustle (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).

• To dub or not to dub, that is the question. Meet a person responsible for high-quality dubbing of animated films for Icelandic audiences (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).

LISTEN UP

It’s always a little stressful putting the final touches on a new issue and sending it out into the world. Luckily, there’s always new music hitting the record store shelves and the airwaves to keep us dancing through it all. Read about (and listen to) the new music streaming at Grapevine HQ in our weekly new music dispatch (Öffnet in neuem Fenster). And stream our new weekly music podcast right here (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).

Have you been keeping up with Valur Gunnarsson’s eight-part series exploring alternative outcomes to key events in Icelandic history? His latest hypothetical thought experiment centres around what would have happened had a revolution broken out in Iceland. Give it a read right here (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).

Catch up with the entire series (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) and tune in to the Grapevine’s Alternative History of Iceland podcast, where Valur and Grapevine publisher Jón Trausti Sigurðarson delve deeper into a new “what if” in each episode. If you like history, alternative reality or middle-age dudes talking about stuff that never happened, this podcast is for you (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).

That's it from us this week. As always, thanks for your support.

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