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by Swizec 3379 days ago
Since we're dick measuring: come to Slovenia some time. 60% of the country covered in forests. NatGeo just voted us the most sustainable country in the world.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/features/2017-best-...

/micdrop

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Come to Finland!

Forests cover 75 percent of Finland's land area. For every Finn, there is around 4,2 hectares of forest. In Finland, land area is classified according to its use. 86 percent of land area is forestry land.

It is very green, unless it is winter in which case it is either white (due to snow) or bleak and miserable due to darkness.

As a Finn, I second the "bleak and miserable".

Hell, I moved to London for the weather.

I moved from Scotland to Helsinki. The snow & cold aren't so bad, but the darkness is really something that took some getting used to.
As a Norwegian (from Oslo) living in London, who has visited Finland during the summer and found it "bleak and miserable" even then (ok, so not all the time we did have some days with sun too), I'm not surprised. Though London is bleak and miserable compared to Oslo even during the winter (I prefer snow over rain any day..)
You should see my cousin's green.

But anyway, come to Tasmania in June through August, go for a hike in the temperate rainforests and see some of the tallest flowering trees in the solar system.

Also we do artisan coffee (or just coffee if you're not in to that wank) out of a trailer we hand-built from the ground up.

Bucketlisted.
There's a reason why an area of California is referred to as "the emerald triangle".

Definitely lots of green.

Belgiu m ! We're super green, but the climate is so horrible that you'll be depressed anyway :-)