At first, I went just to visit the bookstore and pick up a couple of gifts. Then, the kid in me got super excited, and I just had to see the whole museum, which probably is not surprising to friends and family who know me. After all, when was I going to come back to Sweden in the near future?! The museum has a couple of exhibitions and play areas that feature different story characters, but perhaps the coolest experience was the story train that starts on the first floor and takes you to the second floor. While aboard the story train, you're told stories through a sensory experience with sound, visual effects and different scenes from the stories. It was a pretty cool concept!
In preparation for my work meeting in Sweden, I read a lot about battery recycling and the different processes there are to recycle batteries. Going into meetings with this very foundational knowledge helps me better understand and ask the right questions about the environmental impacts of these processes. Most actors in the battery recycling field want to do the right thing and do it ethically, but sometimes, pressures from the government stakeholders and the speed with which you need to work to have a competitive advantage in innovation can deter ethical decision-making. When we ask governments to change policies to encourages battery cars over gasoline cars, however, it's very important that we go to them with proof that battery production and recycling aren't equally or more energy-intensive as coal mining and the CO2 footprint of gas cars.
