President of Iceland Assumes Patronage of Driving Sustainability ‘08

The President of Iceland, Mr. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, will inaugurate Driving Sustainability ‘08, an exclusive international platform for sustainable energy solutions for transport, at Hilton Reykjavik Nordica, Iceland, on September 18 & 19, 2008. Invited as special speaker, the world famous aeronaut and psychiatrist Dr. Bertrand Piccard will deliver a keynote on his global vision for sustainable mobility embodied in his Solar Impulse (http://www.solarimpulse.com)... Read more..

OMEGA Celebrates Its Solar Impulse Partnership on the Olympic Green in Beijing

Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, the co-founders of the Solar Impulse project with its ambitious goal of circumnavigating the globe in an airplane powered only by the sun, were welcomed to the OMEGA Pavilion on the Olympic Green in Beijing on Sunday, 10 August, 2008. OMEGA provides technical and capital support to Solar Impulse, sharing in the visionary founders’ conviction that the venture will contribute substantially to the scientific... Read more..