The last couple of days I’ve been involved in major business deals and opportunities regarding renewable energy in a number of interesting markets. We are looking at major biomass projects for district heating and power in Belarus, clean energy transformation in Chile, including solar, biomass and wind. A port for biofuels in the mediterranean to [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Mitigation, Adaptation, and the Never-ending Climate Quarrel.
November 20, 2008 – 10:53 pm
We have severe unsustainability issues on the planet. Global warming is a fact. So far almost everybody seems to agree. But whether the global warming is man-made or not remains a debate despite the fact that thousands of well-merited climate scientists have collaborated to reach the IPCC conclusions. Here is a recent debate article by [...]
Translating sustainability trends to companies
November 20, 2008 – 1:39 pm
We are at a point when the global issues are widely known and accepted. Although spreading awareness will continue to play an important role, we now really need to move towards implementing the solutions. This is of course relevant for both politicians, companies and individuals.
This means that there is a strong need to translate the [...]
Karma by Fisker – An eco chic Danish car
November 20, 2008 – 12:26 am
An eco chic luxury car. An electrically power driven hybrid sprinter. The “Karma” by Fisker is probably the best bet right now for the first real environmentally conscious car. A car that can challenge the petrol luxury cars and give the luxury driver the opportunity to be environmentally conscious, eco chic, without sacrificing the pleasure [...]
Earthly resilience and the sustainability challenge
November 18, 2008 – 11:00 pm
Tonight at the Green Drink at Café Opera in Stockholm, we had an excellent presentation by Johan Rockström, the head of Stockholm Environment Institute. He is together with his team participating in the IPCC work and he is probably the most influential academic environmentalist from the Nordics right now.
He gave a very alarming picture of [...]
MyC4 – Micro financial solutions on the web
November 17, 2008 – 11:06 am
In 2007, the first loan was lent on MYC4 – a peer to peer lending platform where investors can globally co-invest in loans extended to entrepreneurs in Africa. As of June, 2008, MYC4 has extended financing to more than 1,300 businesses in 3 African countries worth more than EUR 2m. MYC4 facilitates a unique business [...]
Stockholm Cleantech Venture Day
November 13, 2008 – 6:15 pm
On Tuesday I had the opportunity to participate as a speaker at Stockholm Cleantech Venture Day, a conference with a focus on bringing together investors and entrepreneurs in the cleantech area. The leading organiser was STING, a leading cleantech incubator in Sweden. Globe Forum was a co-organizer. The conference featured many good speakers and a [...]
Financial crisis, oil price and renewable energy
November 6, 2008 – 10:41 pm
Since the financial crisis hit us hard the oil price has dropped dramatically, by something like 50% from around 140 USD per barrel at the peak to currently around 70 USD per barrel. Now, the current key questions are, will the price remain at this level, and what does this do to all the projects [...]
Mind-boggling sustainability innovation
November 5, 2008 – 10:57 pm
This blog is focused around all the innovations and innovation trends connected with the transformation towards higher degrees of global sustainability. Since we are talking about disruptive technologies in many cases (i e technologies that go in a different direction than the prevailing, mainstream, technologies, and thereby challenge these) these innovations are typically not found [...]
Sustainable city is the talk of the town
November 4, 2008 – 11:53 am
I believe the concept of sustainable cities have reached a turning point.
The next level of rapid development towards global sustainability is coming from progressive cities. And it is reaching the mainstream. All city administrations with some credibility today need to have a strategy for becoming more sustainable.
Cities have started to compete globally on who is [...]
