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Iceland to join EU’s carbon reduction program

December 15, 2009

My latest post on the THINK platform. Would you believe that pollution in Reykjavík has exceeded health safety levels 15 times in the last 24 hours? No doubt I am like most THINKers, keeping a close watch on the proceedings in Copenhagen. It’s hard to know what to say about it until something definitive is [...]

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Young Icelanders challenge government on climate change

November 27, 2009

Latest post on the THINK platform: As I alluded to in a previous post, climate change feels like a non-issue in Iceland at the moment. So much time and space is given over to the effects of our recent economic implosion and the myriad difficulties resulting from it, that climate change on a broader scale [...]

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The battle for control of Iceland’s energy

November 7, 2009

My latest post on the THINK platform – the tragic story of HS Orka. In the last post I wrote about how a set of investors, meticulously assisted by the ruling powers in Iceland, managed to gain a controlling share in HS Orka, a geothermal energy company supplying green energy to Iceland’s southwest peninsula, Reykjanes, [...]

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When green energy becomes the target of shady deals

November 1, 2009

As I described in a previous post, Iceland has an abundance of green energy. And as we know, green energy is the energy of the future – and will only get more valuable with time. Consequently it is not surprising that Iceland’s green resources are already the target of a power struggle aimed at transferring [...]

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Not all carbon footprints are bad

October 4, 2009

Dear all – I have a new post up at the THINK site. Excerpt: I’m in Ferrara, Italy at the moment, attending [and guesting at] the Internazionale Festival – a three-day gathering of thinkers, writers, journalists and, um, even the odd blogger. It’s a fantastic, vibrant festival with ongoing panels, lectures, live interviews and lots [...]

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Just don’t look up at the glacier

September 28, 2009

Just to alert you to a new post I’ve written on how climate change is manifesting in Iceland, over on the THINK site: This past weekend, Iceland’s foreign minister gave a speech at the United Nations in New York. Amazingly, only a small part of the speech dealt with Iceland’s current economic woes – the [...]

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Warming up for climate change reporting

September 22, 2009

So after two days of intense frustration, having schlepped my laptop all the way to the WakeUp Copenhagen Hotel and finding that the Wi-Fi was f*cked, this evening – by some miraculously inspired configuration – I managed to get online.* I have no idea what I did, but that doesn’t matter because now I don’t [...]

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