‘Denmark, The State of Happiness’, is on at the Stromness Town Hall today Monday, 27th May, 7.30 – 9.30pm. Tickets are priced at £5 and you can pay at the door or reserve your place by clicking on this online link: Denmark – A Film by Lesley Riddoch with Q&A
This is a one-off screening in Orkney of this film showing how the Danes do things and how their successes could be applied here in Orkney and beyond.
‘A tantalising glimpse of what Scotland could be like and what we deserve…’ Val McDermid
The film covers Denmark’s success in renewable energy and gives an insight into how Scotland could look as an Independent Country.
Dan Jørgensen – Minister for Climate Change and Energy who explains why Denmark’s decided not to issue any more oil & gas exploration licences & will end extraction by 2050. Denmark is EU’s biggest oil producer. 
Tina Saaby was Copenhagen City Architect who drove its transformation into world’s most sustainable capital city – with the old docks cleaned to provide swimming for residents. 
Søren Hermansen heads the Energy Academy on tiny island of Samsø (pop 3.7k) which has made them energy self sufficient with district heating for 80% of residents using local straw bales and cooperatively owned turbines so most islanders are co-owners.
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