Silje Østerbø Silje Østerbø

Silje Østerbø is actively promoting climate action and energy transition through her work as an adviser at the Climate Agency (in Bergen municipality) and as a project manager at the Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature (Hordaland County). These projects include: Energismart, ‘Proper wood burning’, ‘Take care of what you have’, and ‘The plastic hunt’. The projects Silje is involved in promote both efficiency (e.g. Energismart, ‘Proper wood burning’-‘Riktig vedfyring’) and sufficiency concerns (e.g. ‘Take of what you have’-‘Ta vare på det du har’). Through the example of Silje, citizens are committed to deeply renewing and restructuring the energy system to create a more sustainable one. The activities and proposals are part of the contestation of the dominant system and result in critique and protest (e.g., climate protests) against policies and activities.