Sören Hermansen - Award winner 2009, Göteborg Award for sustainable development

Sören Hermansen is the primus motor and focal point of the so-called Samsö Project, in which Samsö, with its some 4,000 inhabitants, won the competition between Danish islands on which one would first become self-sufficient through renewable energy within ten years.
Under civic-minded Hermansen's enthusiastic leadership - founded on a grass roots perspective - the work has resulted so far in eleven land-based, and ten ocean-based, wind generators as well as a number of district heating power plants driven by burning hay or wood chips. Replacing fossil fuelled cars and tractors with biogas, raps oil and electric car technology is already in the pipeline.

Sören Hermansen was named one of Time Magazine's 2008 "Heroes of the Environment", and is now in the process of spreading his ideas around the world.

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