Archive / maj, 2015

We are not apart from nature, we are a part of nature

Social media celebrity Prince Ea’s “Dear Future Generations: Sorry” video, which just broke the record for most viral environmental campaign to date with more than 20 million views in its first 24 hours and over 50 million views in the first week. Check it out and let´s work together to protect the environment. Dear future […]

New Nordic Business Models for a Circular Economy

Let´s move from a linear to a circular economy, says The Nordic Council of Ministers during a workshop recently held in Copenhagen, Denmark. So let´s! What if we bring together business, public authorities and civil society to identify opportunities, solutions and policy options for promoting new business models? What if the new models are resource […]

Truck´s on electrical roads in Sweden

PostNord, a logistics company in Sweden, has joined the consortium that is developing a ”electrical road solution” at Arlanda Airport. ”The ambition is that PostNord’s trucks will operate at a future elecrical road between Stockholm Arlanda Airport and Rosersberg logistics area. The consortium hopes to begin building the road in 2016. – Our goal is […]

A new way of building ships

Check out this new kind of ship. The entire ship acts as a single sail and harnesses wind energy to generate propulsion. It is called the Vindskip (Windship), ”a hybrid vessel unveiled in 2012 by Lade AS – an Ålesund, Norway-based design firm – that uses a specially-designed hull to harness the power of wind […]

Project MainStream – Scales the Circular Economy

Project MainStream is part of the World Economic Forum’s Circular Economy initiative. In january three new programs was launched focused on developing ways of scaling the circular economy through materials management, information technology and business model innovation. I like the name of this project: Project MainStream. This is exactly what we wanna do, make the […]