OLIVER MILMAN – Years of investment in green infrastructure have driven electricity prices down across countries like Sweden and Finland—sometimes below zero. Could the United States do the same?
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Seeing Obama as Norwegians See Him
GEORGE LAKEY: I just returned from a research trip to Norway where the people I interviewed often brought up the topic of our new President. The first was Kristin Clemet, the director of a conservative think tank. “This spring on a delegation to Washington I was struck again,” she said, “by how different the political spectrum is in Norway from your country. Here, Obama would be on the right wing.” I checked her view with others — academics, politicians, activists all over the Norwegian spectrum — and all but one agreed. In Norwegian terms, our President’s positions are very conservative.