An INNER sustainable (r)evolution…

I am Emma. A wild dancing child, an adventurous mermaid, a life artist and now a part of this amazing people´s movement I have experienced and met these past 3 days during my stay at Samsø, the green island in the heart of Scandinavia, and most of all during my meeting with Søren and Malene who are the two fire-hearted people leading Samsø´s community transformation into an international rolemodel of holistic sustainable living IN REAL LIFE. Being it. Now. Today.

My journey there started with a meeting. My dear friend Mikkeline was at a dinner party at my house when she bursting with excitement and fire told me that Energi Akademiet on Samsø wanted people who could get in to the core of people, help open the hearts of the human beings and so that they themselves could create the start of an INNER sustainable (r)evolution.

I could feel my heart beating and my mouth wanted to interrupt, laugh and sing and when it does that I know there´s something to it! The past years I have been living and working towards opening my own heart to what really creates meaning and content in my own life. Learning to sense what is REALLY important in life when all the stuff is peeled away has many times left me full of panic and anxiety of being “trapped” in a world I do not have any kind of power to change into a place with space for humans, space for me. I have felt I would die in all the polluting toxins, sounds and product exchange in the streets of all cities. I wanted to run way and hide MANY MANY times. Move out to some far far far away island and create “my own” paradise.

But! I don´t want to run away. I want to stay and create a place where we can co-exist. A place where we can see all the beauty in our differences. Value these differences and start using them to build the life and communities you and me would like to spend our everyday in together. I feel that now is the time for creating this place. My way of doing this now is by returning to the nature that I AM. I am nature. I do this by stepping out of the spinning wheel of society and into the wild winds and soaring oceans of our blue planet. Here I can hear my true calling as a human being and feel my bellonging to this planet. Here I can take a deep breath and see the small wonders of life happening all around us. I feel alive and I feel response-able. Able to respond. So I want to say thank you Samsø for your wild beauty and see you soon again!

A letter from Mikkeline:

Magical things can occur when you listen deeply and sense what is seeking to emerge.
 
I’m Mikkeline and I want to tell a story of what brought me to this island…

A few weeks ago I spend a few days on a beautiful isolated island outside Stockholm, really connecting to nature and listening to my own inner voice, being completely present. It felt like stopping the ever spinning whell of stress and acomplishement, breaking the illusions that makes us slaves of our own minds.
I felt more alive and present than ever before. I felt like a living part of a whole living world. I got a strong desire to share this deep feeling of presence and connectedness. It was like something in me calling.

Same day I received a mail from Energi Akademiet. It was simply a poem, nothing else. I didn’t know much about the place or the people behind it,- but the poem resonated so strongly in me, that I decided I wanted to visit them.
I believe in personal meeting so I asked my friend Emma to join me and spend a few days on Samsø, to explore this feeling of something calling.

It has been a magical meeting these past few days. We have been biking around the island in the beautiful nature and meeting wonderful people. Slowly getting a sense of the life and the energy here.
It is so impressive and inspiring how the people of Samsø have met and as a community connected around the shared vision of making this island fossilfree.
We remember talking to a local busdriver and it was so wonderful to hear how proud he was to tell about the island and their collective passion for sustainable energy.

I realize there is so much more to this than green technology.
It is about the people. It’s is about the meeting between these people. It is about the feeling of coming together, and being part of creating a community FOR LIFE.  Samsø has managed to create a sense of belonging and being part of a bigger whole, which awakens a natural and positive desire and motivation to be part of the change.

I get the feeling that the shift to sustainability is build on the human aspect. The green technology is already there. So what does it take for us to implement it and change to a sustainable lifestyle? I think it is extremely exiting to explore what it takes to awaken this NATURAL DESIRE in us to live more sustainable.

When I take a moment to listen deeply and feel truly alive, I get a sense of being a piece in the puzzle. When I feel the connection and co-existence, the shift inside me happens automatically. I naturally want to change the way I behave towards myself, those around me and the amazing nature we are a part of.

So… I guess you can say a poem called me to Samsø. It’s been an touching meeting and I somehow feel at home. It feels like the beginning of something, yet unknown. I will listen to what is emerging and let it come alive.

Another poem came our way, as we were biking around the island. On a red bench, someone had written:

“There is an island in the clear sea,
much closer to the stars and the skies,
yes much closer to the morning and evening sun,
than the noisy streets and cities.”

This poem captures it so beautifully. We’re need to move closer to nature. Closer to life.
Move closer to each other, closer to the World we want to live in
And the World we want our children to grow up in.
Thank you, Samsø. We look forward to meeting you again soon!

LOVE & LIFE,

Mikkeline and Emma

Kør gratis i elbus til og fra Elbildagen på ruten: Energiakademiet – Tranebjerg v. Rosens Plads – Brundby – Ballen havn – Energiakademiet.
Elbussen henter også Elbildag-gæster fra færgen i Sælvig kl. 10:45 og i Kolby Kås kl. 11:40.

KOM OG SE næsten alle elbiler på det danske marked:
Elbilerne fra Renault: Fluence Z.E., Kangoo Z.E. og den nyeste Zoe.
Elbilerne Nissan Leaf, Citroën C-Zero, Peugeot iOn, Mercedes-Benz Vito E-CELL.
Golf-elbiler fra Club Car, Melex, Garia og Samsø Golfklubs elklipper Jacobsen Eclipse.
Fiat-elbusser.
Better Place mobil ladestander.
Elcykler til voksne og børn, også el-ladcykler med BionX elcykel kit samt elcykeltaxa.
Viva los Pedalos (Århus) og Kantcyklisterne (Samsø) gør det sjovt at være cyklist.
Mange spændende elbildag-tilbud.

KOM OG HØR

11:00 Åbningstale v. Søren Hermansen
Grøn transport på Samsø v. div. aktører

12:00 Hverdagserfaringer med en elbil v. Kasper Beck fra ”Prøv en elbil”

13:00 Elbilers økonomi v. Per Jørgensen Møller fra Dansk Elbil Komité

14:00 Jorden rundt i en elbil v. Nina Rasmussen og Hjalte Tin

14:30 Eldrevet musik i caféområdet v. Stefan Wolffbrandt

15:00 Elcyklen –et effektivt alternativ v. Jesper Berggreen fra E-Wheels

15:30 Elbilen teknisk set v. Torben Matzen fra Ålborg Universitet

17:00 Tak for i dag.

KOM OG PRØV el-personbiler, el-varevogne, el-busser, el-cykler, el-golfbiler.
Uffe hjælper med at beregne økonomien med on-line program.
Fossilfrie køretøjer for de mindste.
Viva los Pedalos tager pulsen på din cykel.
Kantcyklisterne står klar med sjove idéer til din cykel eller cykelhjelm –tag den med!

KOM OG SMAG alt godt fra Foderbrættet og Bageriet, is fra Den Ny Café, øl og vand.

KOM OG MØD Better Place, Dansk Elbil Komité, Energiakademiet, E-wheels, Kantcyklisterne, Kasper Beck, Nellemann, Nina Rasmussen og Hjalte Tin, Peugeot, Post Danmark, Renault, Renault Sondrup, Samsø Golfklub greenkeeper, Re-Ride, Samsø Kommune, Stefan Wolffbrandt, Svenningsens, Transportgruppen under Fossilfri Ø, Viva los Pedalos og Aalborg Universitet.

Hvis du vil se hele kataloget fra det Norske flykatalog !

Den handler om solid lederskab og om hvordan historien skaber vores erfaringer, får ens arbejde til at give mening.

Vi på Samsø Energi Akademi kan se at vi har alle kan og skal fortælle den gode historie i forhold til Samsøs og den status som Danmarks vedvarende energi Ø.

Samsø Energi Akademi er  i fuld gang og i stand til at kunne fortælle den narrative historie som rigtig mange mennesker kommer for at høre og mærke.

En narrativ fremstilling er en vinklet fremstilling af et handlings-/hændelsesforløb eller en årsagssammenhæng med en form mere eller mindre tilnærmet en fortælling. En narrativ fremstilling kan udgøre rammen for erfaring. Anvendes undertiden synonymt med diskurs.

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Hvem har noget af have det i, det har den lokale ildsjæl og direktør fra Samsø Energi Akademi som ligger på Danmarks vedvarende energi Ø.

Samsø er selvforsyende med deres vedvarende energi, nu har de en plan om at blive fossilfri  2030 altså 20 år før regeringen.
Læsø foredragsforening står for arrangementet som foregår i biografen i Byrum
Skal Læsø være en del af udkants problematikken eller skal øboerne til at planlægge en fremtid !

There’s a world of opportunity to re-think and re-design the way we make stuff.

‘Re-Thinking Progress’ explores how through a change in perspective we can re-design the way our economy works – designing products that can be ‘made to be made again’ and powering the system with renewable energy. It questions whether with creativity and innovation we can build a restorative economy.

Find out more about the circular economy at http://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org and http://www.facebook.com/EllenMacArthu… and follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/made2bmadeagain

It seems (by comments here) that people are starting to be aware of the “deadly” cyclical consumption caused by the “necessity” for “infinite economic growth” wich causes lots of ambiental problems.

Allan Aagaard - Danske Bank byder velkommen og sætter dagens konference.Tor Nørretranders - Fortæller om den nye tidsalder, hvor fællesskab kommer til at spille en ny rolle – Også i erhverslivet.Lars Brunsø – Kombinere produktion, socialt ansvar og bæredygtig forretning i sin virksomhed i Ry.Lene Skovsgaard -Står i spidsen for et erhvervseventyr,hvor fællesskab, handlekraft og netværk skaber ny vækst i Grenå.Energiakademiet på Samsø – Høster nu frugterne af en massiv satsning, hvor samsingerne gik sammen om at skabe en komplet grøn ø.Signe Damgaard – Står bag to iværksætterkonkurrencer og ny erhvervsjournalistik i Aarhus.

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Samsø har i 2011 etableret deres egen bredbånds forening.Samsø er i gang med at få en ny færge.Store og meget vigtig tiltag i forhold til Øens overlevelse og trusler.En af de største udfordringer er at opretholde et samfund som kan tilbyde service – skoler og plejehjem og indkøbs muligheder og sygehus. Hvordan ser Samsø i 20020 – Hvor mange ø boer er der ?
En af de lavest hængende frugter er at Samsø forsat udvikler sig og fastholder den solide demo værdi der er skabt via dens status som Danmarks vedvarende energi Ø.

Se hvordan verden fortæller historien om Danmarks vedvarende energi Ø.

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