Finland, unfortunately, lacks behind when it comes to trend of ecological and ethical consumption. You can see it for example from the selection of coffee that is served in various restaurants and cafeterias. In Finland it is not a common thing to be served as fair traid or organic coffee- the situation is totally different in for example Sweden or England. One thing that I am still confused about is that should I prefer organic over fair trade, or the other way around… 

This picture is from Sweden Mc Donland’s where they serve organic coffee.

Chili appears to be a new emerging trend in Finland. Chili is added to most weird stuff- like ice cream, chocklate and bread. Here are some evidences of the new coming of chili.

Image: Chili-pineapple-orange ice cream

Image: Chili-pineapple bread

In Helsingin Sanomat, last friday there was an interesting article about new trends of death. As an example one woman was showing her own coffin that was waiting for her passing away in her lobby at her home. She also had a dress ready for her burial.

Shall we have designed coffins in the future? There certainly are new trends for death. For example Ecopod is making designed coffins made of recycled paper, Swedish company Promessa is advertising new way of ecological burial. There are virtual cemetaries for people and for pets in the Internet.  Or what about a coffin with a design of Nokia mobile phone?

While walking in the forest I spotted another kind of epitaph. That you can see in the picture below. The graffiti was made for some young man who died in the age of 28 (according to the dates in the graffiti).  That young man surely had great friends!