Sweden: A concept country for clean-tech development

April 28, 2010  |  Length: 00:06:22

At the Nordic Green conference in Menlo Park, Calif., Olov Hemstrom of the Swedish Trade Council discusses the history of Sweden's drive to go green. He says government and business officials decided on a concept called SymbioCity, where various city functions from waste-water management to landscape and urban planning are all interconnected into one integrated system. Hemstrom is hopeful the practices tested in Sweden over the past 30 years can be applied to cities within the U.S.

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RE: Sweden: A concept country for clean-tech development
Come on how crazy is this ?

Sweeden are you kidding me ? Sweeden has a population of about 9 Million spread out over approx 170,000 sq miles !

Meanwhile New York city alone has that many people spread out over a whopping 23 Sq Miles

What works in a non diverse, sparsely populated nation of 9 Million does not work in a diverse and in some areas overpopulated nation of 330 Million !
Posted by electroman76
28th Apr 2010
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RE: Sweden: A concept country for clean-tech development
OK- so we'll figure out something else for New York
Posted by dcdereus
24th Jun 2010
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