How to meet the "tsunami" of Chinese clean tech dominance!!!
The Chinese are pushing to the fore in the global race to develop and market clean technologies. The New York Times of the 30th of January warns that the western world may become as reliant on Chinese clean technologies as we are now dependent on oil from the Middle East. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/business/energy-environment/31renew.html?emc=eta1 We have seen it [...]
Why complicate things?
I sometimes get the impression that people who work with sustainability, sustainability economics, development of new energy technologies, or developing networks in the area of sustainability or energy technology development think that creating transformation strategies, plans and manage change from the perspective of high level goals creates unnecessary complications. Everything seems to work very well [...]
Is there not enough competence already?
In recent conversations with energy experts and business leaders I have been asked the question of whether there is not already enough people and competence involved in the development of new energy technology and in efforts to change energy systems. My response to this is that there is not, and that the available competencies are [...]
The Pickens Plan – a Plan for Large Scale Energy Transformation
In the United States oil billionaire and philanthropist T. Boone Pickens is lobbying the “Pickens Plan”. This is a bold plan to reduce the dependence of the US on imported oil, and to increase once more the use of indigenous energy sources. Mr. Pickens argues in favour of a large-scale implementation of wind energy for [...]
Global Energy Transformation High-lighted by Library
Global Energy Transformation was high-lighted in a focus on books on environmental issues: http://business.library.emory.edu/news/spotlight/environment 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 [...]
Big ideas, big "projects", big men and women
At a recent visit to London I took the opportunity to walk among the imposing buildings and monuments of the government’s quarters in Westminster. I was impressed by the number of statues of important men and women, who have been involved in building the United Kingdom, and realized that the effort of Global Energy Transformation [...]
