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vision for what we like to stand for

and how we see

ourselves in the World

Just making new Smelters, for

export of Aluminium is very easy

and that's why I feel it is very

important for Icelanders to gather

and get an agreement

about what we like to stand for.

The Ministry of Ideas

is partly funded by

two of the Universities

here in Iceland

within that facility apart from the

Ministry of Ideas, we have

several start up companies

that work like a single company

in terms of exchanging ideas

and helping different companies

to get connected with different

people within the community

and the business community.

The goal is to generate

50 new companies in Iceland.

This Ministry can be looked at as

the heartbeat of the grassroots

when it comes to innovation

and change in Iceland

We have a vision that we can plan

this and we can kind of visualise

what we like Iceland to be in

20 years or 50 years

without the involvement of big

corporations or political parties

then when we go for voting

we can vote for politicians

that we feel, as people in the country

that are best fitted to fulfil this vision

We had the collapse

I think it is good because

now we are in the ruins

and we can learn from it

we can build up a new society

a new environment

and a new thinking

Iceland has huge opportunities

because we have these resources

and we can become perhaps

the first nation to have

all our cars and all our ships

powered by sustainable power

clean power.

Well, at the moment we are

transporting food primarily

by aeroplane and the

days of this being possible

are coming towards an end

not only because we could have a

big eruption that could stop flights

in the Northern Hemisphere

for perhaps 2-3 years

but we will also be hampered

by the fact that we are using up

oil at a very fast rate, so we

will not be able to transport food

around the World in

aeroplanes for much longer.

The age of cheap flights I'm

afraid is about to come to an end.

I think it is very important to be

able to go out into the countryside

and see how food grows

where things are really made.

They don't grow in the supermarkets

they grow in the soil.

That's one thing that has been

happening in Iceland now

that we have been making

local groups in all parts of Iceland

like the Slow Food idea

to eat locally, eat seasonal

it's going to save a lot of energy

and it's going to reduce the pollution

caused by all this transport.

It is also ok to break the leaves off

on the field, if you feel like it's easier,

they will just compost

on the field, it's ok.

At least in the beginning people

saw me as a really strange guy

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