Nordic Center hosts the Danish Energy Agency and California Energy Commission

Susanna Lofvander The Nordic Center hosted a meeting between David Hochschild, Chair of the California Energy Commission, and Kristoffer Böttzauw, Director General of the Danish Energy Agency, to sign an agreement outlining future collaboration between the two agencies. This Memorandum of Understanding details how Denmark and California will cooperate in sustainable innovation going forward. Formal

A Love Letter To Stockholm…

It is often said of American cities that you can never really know them simply by visiting. New York will never reveal its secrets to the tourist, Chicago is never the same season to season, and Los Angeles can never be truly known except by those who were born and raised in its sprawl. I

High North Conference

The High North Dialogue is an annual event held in Bodø, Norway, that gathers leaders in politics, business, and technology in the Arctic circle to exchange ideas and lay the groundwork for the future of the region. Some of the leaders in attendance included Ine Eriksen Søreide of the Norwegian Parliament and Chair of the

The Nordic Way of Life

Copenhagen Business School, Dalgas Have 15, attempting to read a student magazine with a cover story on “Questioning the Status Quo” in Danish While perusing the Haas MBA course catalog last fall, I was intrigued by the unique punctuation mark at the end of this course title, “Sustainable Capitalism in the Nordics?” I quickly realized

Sustainable Capitalism: Class Reflections

I was first enticed into taking Robert’s seminar on Sustainable Capitalism in the Nordics at a student and faculty gathering for the Scandinavian Studies department in the fall of 2021. During that evening Robert was full of energy and enthusiasm about his project, the newly established Nordic Center at UC Berkeley. He encouraged everyone with

Why the Nordics?

The Nordics – a place of Vikings, folklore, rain, and a happier sustainable way of living. It all seemed unreal to me. Reading Professor Robert Strand’s book Sustainable Vikings: What the Nordics Can Teach Us about American Capitalism we learned about systems-wide thinking, a Me-We-Me approach as opposed to a Me-Me-Me approach, and how the