The Guardian: Community buy-in and streamlined bureaucracy allow onshore and offshore windfarms to account for more than a fifth of electricity generated in Denmark.

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World number three Caroline Wozniacki was sent crashing out of the French Open quarter-finals after a stunning display by Italian Francesca Schiavone.

Armadillo was not the only Danish film to win a prize at Cannes, however.

Director Helmer Daniel Joseph Borgman picked up the Canal Plus award for Short Film for his movie Berik. The Kazakhstan-based story follows the friendship between a handicapped man and a lonely boy.

This week Copenhagen is hosting yet another international summit conference. 400 delegates from 90 countries are meeting to apply the finishing touches to a global CSR standard – the ISO 26000.The objective of the ISO 26000 standard is to “provide harmonized, globally relevant guidance for private and public sector organizations of all types based on international consensus among expert representatives of the main stakeholder groups.” The standard is meant to　encourage the implementation of best practice in social responsibility worldwide.

The development of the standard is being conducted under the under the auspices of the International Standard Organisation (ISO).

Read more about ISO 26000 and the conference in Copenhagen.

Denmark’s national men’s ice hockey team is defying the critics and pulling out all the stops at the World Championships in Germany, following up a stunning defeat of the Finns on Saturday with a 2-1 overtime victory over powerful USA last night. Read the full story.

When the annual list of the world’s 50 best restaurants was unveiled in London last Monday, Copenhagen restaurant Noma wrenched the grip of El Bulli in Spain, being acclaimed as the globe’s greatest dining experience. The groundbreaking restaurant only serves food from the Nordic region (Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark (including Greenland and the Faroe Isles) and Finland), and employs a network of foragers to find wild herbs and source unusual seafood.

Noma’s triumph has reverberated throughout the world. Since Monday more than 100.000 people has tried to make table reservations at the restaurant which has lead to a crash of the online booking system! 

In a tiny, unassuming town in the middle of New Zealand’s North Island, four small countries are forever united. Most people in New Zealand have never heard of Norsewood. It’s off the beaten track and it’s certainly not heavily marketed. But one thing for certain, the town is proud of its Scandinavian origins. Even though most of its ancestry can be traced back to Norway, it hasn’t forgotten its allegiances to the entire Scandinavian region – as can be seen in the picture above.

And not far from Norsewood is another, slightly larger town that owes its existence entirely to Denmark. In this town of Dannevirke, “Copenhagen” occupies prime real estate, as you can see in this picture of Copenhagen Square.

So awareness of Scandinavia in this quiet, modest part of the world is healthy.

At a recent event hosted by the British Chamber of Commerce in Denmark (BCCD), I ran into a really inspiring person. His name is Ripley Davenport, and this spring he will set out on a 3-month mission to walk across Mongolia, a journey of over 2,700 kilometres - all by himself!

The goal is to raise awareness about human and environmental sustainability, to inspire and educate, as well as to encourage young people to follow their dreams and get active. He will also be raising funds for three charities: Shelter Box, Hope & Homes for Children, and Unicef.

During the Mongolia 2010 Expedition, Ripley will be producing a documentary film and use social media like Twitter, blogs and trackers to enable people around the world to follow him. I know I will be! It’s always fun to meet people like him who actually get out there and do something. It kind of puts cycling two kilometres to and from work to shame…

Check out the Mongolia 2010 Expedition website.

The New Oxford American Dictionary recently chose its word of the year. And what new word summed up the final year of this nameless decade? Unfriend. Fitting, no? The competition was stiff as the short list included a number of beloved words from technology and economics, such as ‘hashtag’, ‘intexticated’, ‘freemium’, and (a personal favorite) ‘zombie bank’.

So what about the word of the decade? Well, the Global Language Monitor (which, incidentally, now has the number of English words past the 1,000,000 mark) says the term ‘global warming’ was the most popular word of the decade. Apparently, ‘climate change’ was the ‘Top Phrase of the Decade’, which strikes me as odd since ‘global warming’ is also a phrase. But whatever. It’s all about the truthiness.

A rather special bond connects Eye for Image, New Zealand and Copenhagen. So I was interested to read that included among New Zealanders’ top travel loves and loathes is Copenhagen Airport. As the only specific airport mentioned in the list, which was released by the New Zealand travel agency House of Travel, this level of awareness on the other side of the world is quite something. Add to that the fact that you don’t need to tip in Denmark (which, apparently, New Zealanders love), Copenhagen Airport really is a winner. As long as the beaches, hotels and humid weather don’t ruin the experience, Denmark could be marketed as an attractive holiday destination to New Zealanders!