Letters of the President

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   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 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   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 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 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...