Letters of the President
February letter 2026
February letter 2026 Through my window I see a mixture of snow and rain falling almost vertically from the sky. It is time for rubber footwear to step safely into the mudlike mixture of snow, water and pollution. Winking though the falling drops and crystals is the...
January letter 2026
January letter 2026 First of all: Happy new year to all who read this letter! While winter is holding is white and frozen hand over all nature around us, we can imagine the majority of life on the Northern hemisphere are in different ways hibernating. It is like a...
December letter 2025
December letter 2025 There is rain, there is fog, there is sunshine some hours a day, and with sunshine temperature paradoxically falls below zero centigrade. This is November in Norway! We picked the remaining mushrooms from one of our favourite spots in the...
November letter 2025
November letter 2025 There is rain, there is fog, there is sunshine some hours a day, and with sunshine temperature paradoxically falls below zero centigrade. This is November in Norway! We picked the remaining mushrooms from one of our favourite spots in the...
October letter 2025
October letter 2025 Can you imagine a bonzai tree? Shaped by clever human hands and still rooted in and nurtured by the soil of global nature. Hence nature and culture combine in a construction where the one is as essential as the other. The tree is harnessed and...
September letter 2025
September letter 2025 We are in a month of change. Green turns to almost all colors of the rainbow. The maple tree in our garden is like a bouquet of exploding shades of red, yellow, orange and green. Multiple mushroom of multiple colors shoot out from the...
August letter
August letter 2025 Heatwaves are swiping, forests are burning, heavy rains are falling and fierce winds are hitting us. Our habitat in the Universe is under siege by some of its own dwellers. Even way up North, in Norway, July unfolded in a way that had rarely...
July letter 2025
July letter 2025 I have experienced that winds can carry Sahara-sand all the way to Croatia. Ships can sail around the globe by assistance of the winds, and even planes can fly by wind alone. Winds can sooth our worried souls Wind can tear the castles of the rich...