Green Nirvana - Denmark

November 2009

Dubbed the land of plenty by green enthusiasts, the windswept Danish island of Samso has managed in recent years to reduce its carbon footprint by 170%. Can we all follow its lead?
My ideal is not to burn oil often and spoil the environment says Erik, one of the islands 4000 farmers. They all welcomed the move towards green energy with unexpected enthusiasm. Eriks heating and electricity are produced by solar panels while his tractor and car run on homemade rapeseed oil. For Soren Hermansen of Samsos Energy Academy, its people like Erik who make the greatest difference: You should think local and act local, and forget about the global. If somebody is doing something significant, that will be spread all over the world in no time. For Samso, this model certainly works: 75% of the islands heating comes from solar power and biomass systems. Renewable energy has enabled it to become self-sufficient and even to sell back electricity to the mainland. We produce 60%, 70% more than we need!

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[scorpiooooooh]

Toxins from coal fired power plants are causing more harm then the windmills now. Poisioning and genetic defects caused by mercury, arsenic and lead which are among the top agents emitted from the smoke stacks and coal ash dumps that eventually leeches into your water supply.

Save a few birds, but poision millions of people AND birds AND deer AND kittens, not a very logical tradeoff is it? CO2 is only one of the problems associated with coal and all the other carbon based fuels.

[histube17]

Not like USA that never ratified the Kyoto protocol, while blaming developing countries for deforestation and pollution...

[daneslav]

Remember when I was a little boy visiting my morfar and mormor's farm in Pillemark. Rode a bike all over the island many times to Trjaneberg, Besser, Nordby, Kolby Kas,

[Th3Delux]

How much I love Denmark..

[thetechnoPIMP]

good going! america needs to implement many of these things!

[MartinTheCoolGuy]

one must try ones best!

[MartinTheCoolGuy]

Imagine how much money he saves. He even makes money selling energy. And he could live well even if the global economy would be in cricis, growing his food, producing his own energy and fuel

[MartinTheCoolGuy]

Imagine how much money he saves not buying electricity and fuel. If the economy crached he could still live well, totally indipendent: growing and selling his own food, warming himself and producing his own energy