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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...firms have started pumping money into projects, offering partners from Djibouti to the Philippines capital, skills and - perhaps most importantly - a sense that this also-ran of renewable energy is really viable. "I think [geothermal power] is the paramount moral obligation of Iceland in the modern world," President Olafur Grimsson told TIME. "There are over 100 countries that could do the same thing we have with their resources. This is the area in which we can really contribute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Boiling Point | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...Iceland (pop. 300,000). In 2004, a Sportacus-themed healthy eating drive saw fruit and vegetable sales skyrocket by 22%. The country's Surgeon General has even credited the show with halting the rise of childhood obesity. " LazyTown is the most brilliant tax-saving phenomenon," Iceland's president, Olafur Grimsson, told TIME. "The chance of these children developing obesity-related diseases - which place a burden on the health system - has been greatly reduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kids' Show Makes Spinach Cool | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

...come as a surprise to learn that Abu Dhabi is this week hosting the world's first Future Energy Summit, a three-day gathering of more than 4,000 entrepreneurs, analysts and officials from the alternative energy world, including heavyweights like green designer William McDonough and Icelandic President Olafur Grimsson. (Also present was Prince Charles, who gave a speech via hologram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Oil Giant's Green Dream | 1/21/2008 | See Source »

...Grimsson expressed astonishment at the paucity of geothermal generation in the United States, given that the nation sits atop the second-largest geothermal resources in the world—following only Indonesia...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Iceland Chief Offers Energizing Talk | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

...Grimsson concluded that harnessing the “fireball on which we sit” could revolutionize energy production across the globe...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Iceland Chief Offers Energizing Talk | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

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