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Baker, James
James is a recluse; an at-the-peripheries kind of chap. Relentlessly driven to manifest his creative urges via design, musical composition, illustration and writing, he gets no peace. O’ the torture, etc.
He currently works as a designer/staff editor for the Norwegian edition of Stuff Magazine, and yes he’s aware of the irony. He’s hoping that being involved in this project addresses the karmic balance in some small way. |
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Berge, Tone M.
Tone Megrunn Berge (26) studies architecture at the Bergen School of Architecture. She is interested in how architecture can be used as a versatile tool for the promotion of society-wide change. Tone wants to make sustainable living a norm rather than the exception through influential behaviour and smart solutions. She believes that the best way to heat up a room is to wear out suede soles on quality parquet accompanied by Cuban timba. To meet the challenge of cooling down, Tone goes to the mountains above Rungu – for her, there is nothing more peaceful than the green mosaic of the plains that gradually blend into a vast blue. |
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Bjørnæs, Christian
Christian is 35 year old and has worked as a journalist and editor for several years. He recently completed a master’s degree in international journalism at Cardiff University and wrote his dissertation on how the British media frame global warming. Subsequently he landed a job writing books for CICERO Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research Oslo, a job he enjoys very much. |
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Bøhle Aarhus, Hans
Hans is a 33 year old happy husband with a newborn son. He currently works as a senior advisor on renewable energy for the Royal Norwegian Society for Development where he leads on consultancy work for energy and climate planning tools and small-scale hydropower projects. Prior to this, Hans worked for Friends of the Earth Norway with policy changes towards renewable energy production. His engineering degree from NTNU in Trondheim has given Hans a good understanding of energy systems and markets and their relation to climate change, as well as primed him in principles of corporate finance, industrial organisation and entrepreneurship. His years in Canada and Zambia has given Hans plenty of international exposure and in his spare time he likes to read up on current affairs and trek in the mountains – and when the season is open you may find him setting his sights on game pigeons. |
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Carlsson, Anna
Anna is 35 year old and living in Northern Norway. She has her background in psychology and tourism, but is currently working as a florist. Her current contribution to the environmental issues is through blogging (www.miljokompis.com); raising awareness and guiding through the product jungle.
Anna believes there is a close connection between how we feel, physically and mentally, and how committed we are to changing our lifestyle. We need to look at the complete human picture. If we want to find out how to make people change their habits, we also need to look at the way they live, work, feel and think. The more your mind is concerned with stress and problems, the less room there is for changing your habits. Anna also believes it is important to make environmentally friendly thinking and living as easy to adapt as possible. Then, more people will be willing to follow. |
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Cockbain, Erik
Erik is a 28-year-old political scientist from the University of Oslo, who until recently worked as an environmental management consultant. He is currently engaged by the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment as an advisor. Erik loves travelling, African music and solving the world's problems together with his friends. He favours a broad social discourse on climate change, and has working knowledge of European environmental funding mechanisms. |
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Keilman, Thomas
Thomas' multinational heritage and lifelong relationship with nature has convinced him that less is more and that quality is to prefer over quantity. He is an educated astrophysicist, philosopher and science communicator, currently working as an advisor for the Norwegian Research Council. Thomas is described as determined and tolerant, yet often politically incorrect, but he firmly believes that speaking up and challenging norms will never be outmoded. |
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Mediaas, Lars M.
Lars has a Master in Management from CERAM Business School in France, a Cand.Mag. from the university of Oslo and Griffith University in Australia and he went to school in Oslo and Tanzania. He works as financial advisor at Rikshospitalet for reseach units in the Oslo Cancer Cluster and the medical clinic of the hospital, is the president of the European Movement Oslo, is active in the Labour party and elected as a representative of the local city council (BU) at St. Hanshaugen (Oslo) and member of the board in a small shipping company.
He is an ardent fan of all things urban and European. In environmental politics his preoccupation is green cities, transport policies and the development of large scale renewable energy sources in Norway. |
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Meek, Kristine
Kristine Meek (1978) is a PR and media-adviser at Geelmuyden.Kiese, where she is connected to the Energy and Environment sector group. Here she works with the company section of knowledge in terms of environmental- and climate related tasks, ‘GK Environment’. Her previous position was at the daily paper Aftenposten, where she worked as a political journalist. She has also worked as a news journalist in other Norwegian newspapers. Kristine Meek holds a Master of Sociology from the University of Oslo. She spent one year of her studies at the media institute at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. She also has political science in her degree. Kristine is a strong believer of the possibilities of communication in the battle against climate change. Her core focus is on how private companies and the corporate world can make a strong impact on tomorrows low carbon economy, and on how companies that don't see this future will soon only be found in history books. |
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Roald, Mari
Mari Roald Bern (26) recently finished her studies of Environmental Governance at the University of Freiburg – the city with the most hours of sunshine in Germany. She wrote her Master thesis on the nuclear energy debate in France and Germany since Chernobyl, and worked at the Institute for Applied Ecology – one of the major German think tanks for environmental policy – when she wasn’t studying. She has recently returned to Norway and started to work for Statkraft as an advisor. She enjoys spending time outdoors together with friends and family wearing hiking or climbing shoes. |
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Sand, Sigve Reme
Sigve Reme Sand (22) is originally from Stavanger in southern Norway. His sense for justice has made his studies of law at the University of Oslo a natural choice. Sigve is active in student democracy and is currently the Vice Chairman of the Conservative Students Union in Norway. He has also held several positions with the Young Conservatives prior to his move to Oslo. In his spare time Sigve enjoys hosting gourmet dinners for friends, reading, and watching reruns of the TV series Frasier. He does not enjoy outdoor activities in the woods, rather, as a true urbanite Sigve believes that the best way to enjoy nature is from a large panorama window. |
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Schwarz, Peter
Peter is 26-year old student from Stavanger currently finishing his Master's degree in Health Economics, Policy and Management at the University of Oslo. As president of the Norwegian Conservative Students Union he is especially committed to questions concerning higher education and student politics. Inspired by the Harvard Green Campus Initiative ( www.greencampus.harvard.edu) Peter has been working for establishing Green Campuses in Norway. He is characterized as a problem-solver and is known to be positive and cooperative. Peter enjoys travelling, is a honed political animal, and wouldn't want to live without gadgets - he is a real technological freak! Most importantly, he believes that people can make difference together, and that a cleaner and safer environment for the future is possible - here and now. |
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Svendsen, Ellen
Ellen (1977) is since the autumn of 2007 a diplomatic trainee at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She spent the first year of her training in the Section for the Environment and Sustainable Development where her main areas of work have been sustainable tourism, communication, the implementation project of the Norwegian Action Plan on Environment in Development Cooperation, and executive work on allocation projects.
Ellen's former work experience include: freelance journalist for several Norwegian daily and weekly newspapers, consultant for publishing companies, consultant in a human resources company - working amongst other things on international recruitment and green HR. Ellen has also been a part-time lecturer in philosophy at the University of Oslo. Academic background: Mphil in Philosophy from Sorbonne (Paris), King's College London and University of Oslo with specialisation in ethics. Ellen also holds a Master of Advanced Interdisciplinary European Studies from the College of Europe in Warsaw. |
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Veivåg Helseth, Elisabeth
Elisabeth is 24 years old and from Stord – and idyllic little place southwest in Norway. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Culture and Communication from the University of Oslo, and has recently finished a master’s degree on sustainable energy consumption at the Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo. Elisabeth is currently studying Drama and Theatre Communication at the Oslo University College. She is also an active board member of SPIRE, The Norwegian Development Fund's youth organisation where she mainly works with climate change related issues. In the future Elisabeth wants to work with raising environmental awareness and engagement especially among children and youth. |
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Wyckmans, Annemie
Annemie (34) is Belgian but moved to Trondheim in Norway 10 years ago. There she researches and teaches sustainable architecture at NTNU after having obtained a Ph.D. on intelligent facades and user qualities. She is particularly interested in creating good conditions for environmental learning; not just in schools but in professional practice and every-day life as well. Most of all, she enjoys getting people to interact and give them a nudge in the right direction – HER idea of the right direction, that is ;-) |
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