Tuesday, April 18, 2017

The World's Greenest Island

At the outset of an interview with a Dutch journalist, Søren Hermansen apologizes for being tired. He’s just returned to Denmark from a 21-day trip to Australia, where he gave 15 lectures and attended numerous other events. The reporter asks Mr. Hermansen how the Australians discovered him, a community leader on a Danish island half the size of Martha’s Vineyard that’s home to just 3,750 people and a few shaggy sheep. “I’m famous,” says Hermansen, adding that he isn’t boasting, it’s just a statement of fact.

Hermansen and his tiny island of Samsø have become recognized around the world for attaining energy independence. The island met this goal 10 years ago using a mix of wind, solar, and biomass, and now it’s working toward one of the utopian goals of environmentalists everywhere – eliminating all fossil fuels, by 2030.

You can read the rest @
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2017/0416/The-world-s-greenest-island

Meanwhile, even if Trump were not president, the US is very far behind.

When upheavals occur, dinosaurs die out. And the US is the biggest dinosaur of all. The climate-population-economic upheaval currently underway will be our giant meteor.

1 comment:

  1. The main reason the US is this far behind is the role petrocurrency mercantilism plays in propping up US power. You can read about that here:

    http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-downfall-of-petrocurrency.html

    Take the world off fossil fuels and the US economy will collapse.

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