We need to understand energy and environment better than before

Finland is an energy intensive and very northern country. There are months and times when I’d like to live in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy or Greece. South America might be a great alternative.

But, we should be speaking about energy. Finland wants more nuclear power plants. What should I say? Should I take a position “for” or “against”?

I don’t oppose nuclear power plants. I’m a pragmatic person, even though I understand the problems of nuclear waste handling. Not all the aspects of it, but it’s a problem we leave unresolved for our children.

Bioenergy is less complex. It’s a perfect distributed energy solution, but we’re not living in the villages – not even in Finland. The urban lifestyle adapts very well to large scale, centralized nuclear energy. Should we move back to the village? Many problems could be handled in a small is beautiful environment with less centralized decision making.

We’re not ready for such a change. Digital Villages might be the best thing for global development, but the concept has to be promoted much better than before.

International Biotechnology Microbiology Engineering Powerhouse

Life has been a blur over the past few months. We are taking important steps towards a bio-based economy. That sounds like a very big statement. The first steps will however be small and incremental.

Working a full-time gig to create an “International Biotechnology Microbiology Engineering Powerhouse” has been very interesting and fuelled much more global attention than we expected. The process has been faster than we predicted.

Even though the tools and the team we have are great, I was doing lots of research to find the right nice for our enterprise. We start from segments that will help us to grow. The national market isn’t big enough. We’ve to think globally, but start locally.

We need to establish:

1. A powerful networking platform
2. Open Global Innovation
3. Project Management tools for distributed Knowledge Workers