Welcome home 🌱—where Nordic design meets sustainability. @Velux, Effekt & Artelia's Living Places push for a greener building industry, w homes emitting 3x less CO2 than 🇩🇰 laws require, using innovative design & eco-friendly materials ♻️🌍

Would you live here?🏡

📸: Adam Mørk

🌊Dive into the sounds of nature w the new soundsright.earth initiative - born & bred in 🇩🇰 by Museum for the United Nations — UN Live! Recognizing NATURE as an artist, this music project supports global ecosystem conservation🌳🐟

Hop over to the Feat. NATURE playlist here ➡️ bit.ly/3W4yIfr

The 1st 🇩🇰 allotment gardens were established in 1884 as sanctuaries & utility gardens for working-class pple in crowded cities🌽🥕

Today the small gardens remain highly valued sanctuaries for urbanites & a place for hobby gardening in the summer🌻🌱

📸 1+2: Kolonihaveforbundet

Børsen - the iconic Old Stock Exchange - is on fire💔

Completed in 1625 by King Christian IV Børsen is one of 🇩🇰's most iconic Renaissance buildings. It caught fire this morning & firefighters are still working to control it. Still unknown how much of the building still stands.

Today is HM Queen Margrethe's Birthday🎂

Born 16 April 1940 👑 Queen Margrethe was 🇩🇰Monarch from 1972 until 14 January 2024, when she handed over the throne to her son, HM King Frederik X. She is the longest sitting, reigning monarch in 🇩🇰 history

📸: Keld Navntoft/Kongehuset

Today is Organic Day 🌱

...and organic cows are being released onto green pastures again - to the great joy for onlookers. 🌾☘️ This year marks the 20th Organic Day underscoring 🇩🇰's longstanding dedication to organic farming & animal welfare. 🐥🐷

📸 2-3: @organicdenmark

It's waste collection week🌱

Every April thousands of Danes - big & small - join forces to clean up nature♻️

Last year 100 tons of waste was collected - this year is expected to surpass that! 💚 🌍

Do you join any waste collection initiatives?

#affaldsindsamlingen2024

For 90 years 🎂 the S-trains have connected Copenhagen w surrounding suburbs, fueling growth & development along the tracks.🚆🎉

The S-train has 170km double tracks, 87 stations, 🧑🏻‍🤝‍🧑🏻 350,000 daily users & served 106.2 million passengers in 2023‼️

Here's to another 90! 🥂

According to the OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives 🇩🇰 is among the top countries globally on good work-life balance ⌛👜🌏

Some reasons might be:

🕰️ A standard 8am-4pm workday
☀️ Statutory annual leave of 36 days
💸 Full sick-day-payment

How does work-life balance stack up in your country? 🌍✨

Today is author HC Andersen's birthday🎉 Born 2 April 1805 in Odense, Andersen is famous for fairytales such as 🧜‍♀️The Little Mermaid, 🦆 The Ugly Duckling, 👑 The Emperor's New Clothes & many more

What is your favorite HC Andersen fairy tale? 👸🤴🐉

📸1: Laerke Beck Johansen

It is Easter 🐣

During the Easter break, many 🇩🇰 families get together for a Easter lunch, that often also includes fun activities such as:

🥚 Painting hard-boiled eggs
🧺 Egg hunting
🪺 Rolling eggs downhill
✂️ Cutting Gækkebreve

🐣 What are your Easter traditions?

🇩🇰 writer Dorthe Nors finds inspiration in the rough nature of the 🇩🇰 west coast🌱 Many of her books are translated into English including 'A Line in the World'📚

Dorthe was the first 🇩🇰 writer to have a story published in The New Yorker. #WomensHistoryMonth

📸 Lærke Posselt

Denmark wins the European Championship in gastronomy👨‍🍳 After competing with Nordic flavours in Trondheim🇳🇴, Denmark took the first place at Bocuse d'Or Europe last week.
Fine dining has become a thing in DK over the past decades, and currently 🇩🇰 holds 45 Michelin stars⭐️

Happy Easter! 🐣

A Gækkebrev is an old 🇩🇰 Easter tradition where intricate patterns are cut into paper that is sent in secrecy to friends & family 💌 If the recipient guesses the sender, he gets an easter 🥚 if not he owes the sender one🍬🪺

Have you ever received a gækkebrev?

Spring is in the air! 🌱

Across Denmark, flowers are beginning to peek up from the soil, painting the landscape in hues of green. Clusters of white snowdrops, yellow erantis and purple crocuses all adorn Danish gardens. 🌼 🌺 🌸

Have you noticed spring's arrival around you?🌷

Happy Nordic Day 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇫🇮🇬🇱🇮🇸🇳🇴🇸🇪🇦🇽

The Nordic region consists of Denmark, The Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden & Åland

#TheNordics share common values such as openness, equality, trust, innovation & sustainability🌱🌎⚖️

Visit ➡️ Nordisk Samarbejde to learn more

Meet Bodil Begtrup - a diplomat, women rights activist & 🇩🇰's 1st female ambassador ✊🏽

In 1946 she was appointed chairman of the 🇺🇳 Commission on the Status of Women & played a significant role in furthering women's rights in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights 🚺

Today is World Happiness Day! 😄

Did you know that the Danes🇩🇰 are one of the happiest, most trusting, equal & democratic people in the world?

Want to know why? Listen to our podcast ➡️ spoti.fi/4ckT0qT where we take a closer look at the Danes and their values. 🤝

Born in 1965, Anja C. Andersen earned her Ph.D. in Astronomy in 1999.🌟

She is widely recognized for her teaching & for being a strong advocate for improving the numbers of women in respected positions within science & academia 📚

#Danishtrailblazers #WomensHistoryMonth

Welcome back 🌍

Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen spent 6 months in space & yesterday he landed safely on earth - or actually in the ocean - after an 18 hour journey from the Int'l Space Station🚀

Quite an adventure - & we get why Mogensen will miss the view from space 🪐