We didn't want to save the polar bears, we wanted to save ourselves - interview with green energy expert Soren Hermansen

The man visited Hungary, thanks to which the Danish island of Samso became a model for renewable energy, community cooperation and the revitalization of the countryside. Soren Hermansen gave a presentation at an event at the Scandinavian House, and in front of us we sat down to talk about how to break up people's instinctive resistance with open, honest communication when they find themselves facing something radically new and how to solve energy greening. to make it work for everyone - even financially.

The island of Samso is probably known to most people who are more deeply preoccupied with green energy. The Danish island won a tender from the Danish Ministry of the Environment in 1997, which meant it had to be transformed into a model renewable energy island. In ten years, Samso is now 100 percent renewable, full of wind power, solar panels, the houses are heated by a connected biomass system, and they now produce enough electricity with their turbines to export the surplus to the rest of Denmark.

Hopeful visions can extend your life by decades - Sari Stenfors

How many years of life can be gained by thinking about positive visions? Will we envy the neighbour if he grows eight levers? How can a multilevel society in a dystopian world be prevented by the development of genetic engineering and the rise of social inequality - which has already been sung in the Hollywood film Gattaca? Interview with Sari Stenfors, Finnish futurist by Nóra Radó.

Photo: Tamás Rácz

Sari Stenfors at the Nordic Bridge event (Photo: Tamás Rácz)