This episode takes you back in time to the end of summer 2022 to our Team North in Norway, where we spent quite a long time. While the recording took already place in September 2022, the editing was finished at the end of 2023. So we travel a bit back in time and listen to the voices our Wanderers collected in the North. The voices tell us about appearing and disappearing species, tourism, energy sources and who has a responsibility for act. Tune in to hear why they are concerned about the cloudberries, the discussions of how the Norwegian welfare state is financed and how our Wanderers are longing for their break days.

Location: Norway, Team North

Date of recording: September 2022 (Editing: autumn 2023)

Total length: 1 h 26 minutes

Timeline:

00:00:00 Teaser

00:02:27 Intro & Welcome to the episode

00:04:04 Taking breaks

00:07:47 Topics of this episode

00:09:10 Weather, temperature and season changes

00:14:16 Extreme weather events 

00:16:44 Norway as winner of Climate change?

00:18:35 Species changing & the Arctic Fox under threat

00:23:42 Gulf stream and changes of the ocean waters

00:25:43 Impacts on the forest and why cloudberries are disappearing

00:30:30 Climate change art

00:37:20 Media narratives

00:38:06 Tourism and tourism management in the Lofoten National Park

00:43:31 Oil extraction, the Norwegian state, and renewable energies

00:53:38 Wind power (and green colonialism)

00:57:13 Responsibility to act

01:11:31 Emotions, despair and hope

01:15:14 Good bye and message from Ada and Fred (Voices of the Valley, https://adada.no/vuomien-tjuajah-voices-of-the-valley-2022/ , https://www.facebook.com/vuemien.voices/ )

01:18:20 Music by the “Vuomien Tjuajah/Voices of the Valley”