"We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to." Terri Swearingen
Per Carstedt (Mr. Ethanol) visited UID on Wednesday for a presentation of an ongoing project in East Africa, in Tanzania and Mozambique. Ethanol produced from sugarcane is promising to be one of the most important products that can provide considerable volumes of cost-efficient renewable fuels to the market and significantly reduce carbon emissions. For Tanzania and Mozambique the project&s potential social and economical impact will be in the same magnitude as the combined effect of the mining and the forest industry of northern Sweden. Per Carstedt calls himself obsessed with sustainability, especially concerning the oil dependent transport section.
At his presentation of the project at UID, Per Carstedt discussed the situation with our dependence in oil, the fact that we consume more than we produce and that the consumption is increasing rapidly while the oil supply will go in the opposite direction. It is safe to say that peak oil (the point in time when the maximum rate of global oil extraction is reached, after which the rate of production enters terminal decline) is here, whether it happened five years ago, today or in five years. He reminds us that humans are on earth to stay; it is a closed system - we cannot go anywhere.
Per Carstedt proposed a cooperation project to the students at UID - to think of suitable names and design graphic profiles for the companies in Tanzania and Mozambique. Later on, as the projects are implemented, the students& skills can presumable be applied on different levels of the projects.
In 1999 Carstedt worked closely with four MA students at UID, designing the service workshops as well as the logotype for the GreenZone project at Ersboda.
