Pride in Past Achievements
When I went to Greece a few years back and saw the Parthenon, the almost impossible architecture that is supposed to make the building look the same size from all directions, or something, I did not understand how come modern day Greeks are not even able to build a road with a straight shoulder. If [...]
Bill Gates: Climate Change is a Bigger Issue than Inventing New Vaccines
In his recent TED speech, Bill Gates argues that climate change is a bigger issue than inventing new vaccines, and that we will need new “energy miracles” to cope with this challenge and develop and implement the necessary new energy technologies of the future. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/12/bill-gates-ted-speech-201_n_461034.html Bookmark It
Planning of Large Scale Transformation is Common Sense
Last Thursday I had the opportunity to present Global Energy Transformation at a seminar in Malmö hosted by the organization SNS (a Swedish organization that promotes debate about important issues in economics, society and politics). The other presenters were Jacqueline McGlade, Director at the EU Environmental Agency (EEA) in Copenhagen, and Klas Eklund, senior economicst [...]
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Mats Visits GWU June 21
