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Sweden is winning at the environmental game again, with a ‘minimal emissions’ cabin holiday


(Picture: Neste/Fanny Haga TBWA)

Sweden, the country that gave us plogging (running and picking up trash) and is known for its environmentally-friendly approach, has a new development that aims to change how we holiday.

Introducing ‘Nolla’ (translated as zero), a cabin found on the island of Lidö, just outside the country’s capital of Stockholm, where you can take a vacation while caring for the environment at the same time.

The cabin is part of a project known as Zero Vacation, created by the renewable energy company Neste, and has been designed to be as sustainable as possible.

Far away from crowded beaches, guests can enjoy untouched landscape, go for nature walks or jump in the ocean for a swim before returning to their environmentally-friendly home.

(Picture: Neste/Fanny Haga TBWA)
(Picture: Neste/Fanny Haga TBWA)
(Picture: Neste/Fanny Haga TBWA)
(Picture: Neste/Fanny Haga TBWA)

Nolla has no running water, to encourage you to walk to a nearby fresh water source instead – and by doing so, using less of it.

The energy supply within the cabin is supplied by Mother Nature; solar panels are placed on the roof and renewable diesel is used for cooking and heating.

The diesel is produced by ‘waste and residue’ and according to Neste, decreases greenhouse gas emissions by 90%.

If you don’t fancy cooking though, there is a Zero menu (made with sustainable ingredients, of course).

(Picture: Neste/Fanny Haga TBWA)
(Picture: Neste/Fanny Haga TBWA)
(Picture: Neste/Fanny Haga TBWA)

Neste also plans to make the island completely fossil-free within one year (Sweden as a whole also aims to be completely fossil-free by 2045) as well as look into the best ways to provide ‘waste management, recycling, water management and sustainable lighting’.

‘Fossil-free future requires changes in our everyday lives, and in our mindset,’ said Sirpa Tuomi, marketing director at Neste.

‘As part of Zero Island project, we wanted to show people they can have a world-class vacation with as little emissions as possible and without flying to the other side of the world.’

This isn’t the first Nolla cabin – there’s also one in Vallisari, Finland.

After a holiday that’ll make you feel good in more ways than one?

Zero Vacation could be it.

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