Feature: Back to Iceland: The Nttra environmental concert

The clouds in the sky at 2 a.m. looked like whales. They were heavy and momentous in strange orange light, splayed across wowing distances and rounded at the tips of ovoid shapes that seemed to swim as much as hover. The ground below looked rich enough to eat: glow-green moss on crunchy rocks, dirt the color of chocolate cake. It would be a while before my group wound up watching Björk bang a drum in the interest of advocacy, but for now, we were wandering a remote realm where her message didn't need to be uttered to be understood. This was "the environment" doing what it does in Iceland, out on the Golden Circle under the midnight sun. The occasion was a trip to Reykjavik for Náttúra, a free outdoor concert held last weekend to raise awareness for environmental issues in Iceland and, by extension, everywhere else. The show... [read full story]