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... also reinvesting any profits into the community.

This is the type of stuff that is so exciting, that we need to be fighting for and that provides an example of viable solutions. I like this concept in particular because it seems to tackle many of our worldly "issues" in one go. Rebuilding community. Creating clean energy. Local economy. Cooperative model of business. It's all good stuff.

I have to send this entry off already, because ...

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Just a quick note. I'm not sure what's going on with TravelPod at the moment but the site appears to be experiencing some technical difficulties. All of my blogs are currently unpublished and saved only as drafts (thankfully I haven't lost any content!). I have tried to republish them and only send the alerts to my parents but I'm not sure if that has been successful ...

This blog will be a complete random concoction of thoughts and ponderings. It has been hitting me since I got to Varberg how much time I really have left here.

The answer: not that much. 15 days to be exact (once it hits midnight in Sweden).

Basically, two weeks.

Whenever I hear the word "basically", I'll always think of Jason from Bermuda. It's his "word". He uses "basically" like we use the word "like". And he says it in such a funny way.

Varberg, West Coast, Sweden meluebke

So, I just remembered that I said I would write another post on why these negotiations are so important, and then I came across an email from a friend who had sent around this link
http://www.iied.org/pubs/displa y.php?o=17074IIED

It links to a brief overview of Cop15 and why it ...

... see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" (George Bernard Shaw)

"Never look down on someone unless you're helping them up." (Jesse Jackson)

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." (Walt Emerson)

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you ...

... and had fika (yeah!) with our host family, Raven (Bermuda), Rachel (CO), and their host families. Then we headed home for dinner and went to a movie! We saw New Moon, the latest movie in the Twilight series.

Today (Monday) was a community impact day. I went with 5 other friends to paint an adult living home. I love painting! When we were done, one of the residents gave us all roses. How sweet is that! :)

Then we had an educational ...

... anymore we went out to the Street, which is just a street where every single building on the street is a bar and we drank. I got back at 6am and we had started at 2pm the day before. I had to admit to Trine the next day that Danes certainly knew how to drink.

... take the longest walk around the island being 8.8km. Well it was fairly nice except for the weather where it was raining one minute and perfect blue skies the next. When we got about 3/4 of the way around the island, the path ran out where it became a bit of cross country to get back. By the time we got back, 2 1/2 hours later, we were a little fed up with walking but still had to walk 2k's back to town from the ferry. My feet were so sore, and later ...

... view over the lakes and forest (well, it was an excellent view right up until the rain started bucketing down just seconds later ... bugger!) Luckily it didn´t last for long though and we walked back down and took the boat to another beautiful spot for some hiking around a very clear lake. Then, unfortunately a bloke told us that we didn´t need to raise the flag on the jetty to indicate that we wanted to be picked up and our boat sailed right on past us ... we were a bit yakked ...

... Sunset boulevard, a Subway-like eatery. 2 sandwiches, 1 fries and a coke cost 75DKK. After lunch, we hurried back to the coach. The journey to Aalborg was uneventful. Denmark's rural landscape was flat and they have a lot of windmills. These windmills are used to generate electricity and I think it generates about 10% of the country need. A great environmental friendly idea for a windy and flat country. We reached Aalborg in the ...