Frú Ragnheiður (“Mrs. Ragnheiður”), the Reykjavík Red Cross’ harm reduction project, started in 2009 and is run by Svala Jóhannesdóttir. The project’s aim is to reach out to injection drug users and homeless individuals by offering them needle exchange services and health care.
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The Student Cellar was crowded on February 21st for the final night of the competition for the title of “Funniest College Student of 2019.” One student after the other took the stage and spoke animatedly about current issues, the funny sides of everyday life, and personal victories and defeats. There was a lot of excitement in the air when the winner, physics student Sigurður Bjartmar Magnússon, was announced.
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The greatest barrier keeping asylum seekers and refugees from diving into studies at the University of Iceland (UI) is the language issue, says Ína Dögg Eyþórsdóttir, foreign transcript evaluation specialist at UI. “The problem is that there really aren’t many programs in English,” says Ína.
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“The Icelandic Youth Environmentalist Association (YEA) is a platform for young people in Iceland to make a difference in environmental matters. The association was founded in March 2013. Back then, there were 40 core members, but today there are 804 members in the association’s directory, according to its website. Pétur Halldórsson is chair of the YEA, heading up a five-person board with two alternate members.
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Shortly after I learned of my daughter’s existence, my boyfriend and I decided that we would use cloth diapers for her. Many people undoubtedly imagine big white cotton rags that you have to fold in a certain way, wrap around the baby, fasten with pins and then place a plastic cover over to keep them from leaking. And that’s really how it was thirty years ago. But thankfully, cloth diapers have evolved and greatly improved since then, and today most of them are used very similarly to disposable diapers.
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If we continue to fixate on economic growth, we’ll never be able to solve the climate crisis we’re facing, says Rakel Guðmundsdóttir. Rakel recently earned a Bachelor’s in Political Science with a final thesis titled “Does Every Little Bit Really Count? Green Consumerism as a Solution to the Climate Crisis.”
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Do you want nothing more than to curl up under a pile of blankets and watch a movie, but your conscience won’t allow you that sort of indulgence when important projects have piled up? Maybe you just can’t bring yourself to study but also don’t want to waste time on a bunch of nonsense? In that moment, what you need is a documentary, the perfect compromise between laziness and conscientiousness.
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“At its core, veganism is concerned with animal protection; boycotting products that take advantage of or exploit animals in any way, whether it be for clothing, food or entertainment, like the circus or zoos,” says Birkir Steinn Erlingsson, vice president of the Vegan Association in Iceland.
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The typical Icelandic tourist skips from one clothing chain to the next, wearing his white Air Force Nikes and his ASOS apparel all while sipping on an iced vanilla latte from the one and only Starbucks. He buys a few things from Forever 21 and Zara, pieces he thinks he desperately needs, and adds a few more from H&M just because he can. You might shake your head at the sound of this description. Or perhaps you recognize this individual; am I maybe describing you?
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For the past few years, authorities in various cities across Europe have been taking action against pollution and global warming. Some cities have done so by limiting the use of cars, or in some cases banning them altogether. The city of Pontevedra in Galicia, Spain, is one of those cities, and over the last twenty years automobile traffic there has decreased substantially.
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We’re running out of time. Well, not those of us who have destroyed the environment the most (i.e. the Icelandic people), but rather people in distant lands for whom we’ve destroyed the environment. Here on our little island, we’re barely aware of the great consequences our daily consumption habits have on our planet. And what are we doing about it? Absolutely nothing.
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Fjöldi bóka, kvikmynda og Netflix þátta hafa fjallað um líf þúsaldar kynslóðarinnar á undanförnum misserum. Er þessari grein ætlað að fræða og skemmta þeim sem vilja kynnast lifnaðarháttum kynslóðarinnar nánar og miðar að því að fanga kjarna hennar í gegnum þessi fjögur hlaðvörp.
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Sólveig Daðadóttir is on the board of Q, the Queer Student Association, and is the group’s educational officer. She is 21 years old and in her second year studying applied mathematics at the University of Iceland. Sólveig is also a peer counsellor for Samtökin ‘78. The other day, the two of us met up at Háskólatorg to discuss the Queer Student Association.
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It may be dark outside, but strings of lights illuminate the windows of nearby houses and point the way toward campus. The study hall is filled with the scent of mandarins and the sound of a can of malt being cracked open. Christmas is certainly right around the corner and on students’ minds, which can only mean one thing: finals are underway.
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Pontus Järvstad is a doctoral student in history at the University of Iceland. His writing is focused on fascism, and he recently completed an article about antifascism in Iceland from the years after the First World War to the present.
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It is better to give than to receive… but not if you are a poor student who doesn’t have any money. In that case, Christmas presents can cause a lot of headaches. Here are a few ideas of inexpensive Christmas presents that can bring joy without emptying (an already empty) wallet.
Hungry? Check out these recipes!
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