Mister Huang Ming is visiting GlobalFOCUS and Sweden next week and will attend the big conference on human rights I wrote about below. I’ll moderate a panel discussion with him and I’m really excited. Mr. Ming is the founder and…
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Guns and butter
At Microeconomic Theory today we worked on general equilibrium models and our professor went through a simple 2-product model of production choices. He (Li) used “Apples and Pears” as the two goods. Li mentioned that in American textbooks the convention…
Posted in It's personal now, Uppsala
Funny street “art”
Hahaha! The billboard’s McDonald’s ad reads “Summer Supreme – We prolong the summer!” and someone has added their own subheading: “Especially on the North Pole”. Meat production accounts for nearly 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions according to the United…
Corporate leadership
Today I found this sign outside my local supermarket. The sign reads “We don’t sell fish and shellfish listed on WWF:s red list”. In Sweden this list has become more and more popular lately and contains information about most popular…
Back in the game
We managed to navigate the whole 60 000$+ charity project over 16 000km and through heaps of countries and reached Mongolia on Aug. 25th 2009. I’m now back in Uppsala and busy moving in to a new apartment (a really…
Posted in Climate Change, Uppsala