Our Work

At Tysvar, our focus is bringing the New Green Economy (NGE) to scale in three distinct areas:

1. Scaling NGE Businesses – To thrive, the NGE must succeed at scale.  At Tysvar, we work on designing and implementing NGE scale-building strategies and partnerships, as well as fostering the NGE in rural areas.  Our work includes new NGE industries creation, jobs, investment opportunities, contributing to building NGE public policy frameworks, and trade for import/export of clean technologies, and renewable energy sources around the world.

We do this as a strategic advisor working with investors who can create the change they wish to see in the world rather than simply reacting to events as they unfold.

2. Helping Staff the NGE – We are interested in business and institutional solutions to successfully help staff the NGE.  Our goal is creating a new gravity in the NGE, attracting talented and resourceful people from all walks of life to prosper and thrive as we help create new jobs and foster recruiting, networking, and training.

3. Norwegian-American Collaboration – We focus on unique opportunities between Norwegian and American entrepreneurs, investors, companies and unions, helping create an ongoing and successful NGE Norwegian-American collaboration.  Here’s an interesting fact: Almost five million Americans claim Norwegian descent and one in five Minnesotans, including our founder, Lois Quam, are Norwegian – American.  Norway, an arctic oil producing nation with a carbon tax since 1993, is a leader in the NGE.

An example of our initiatives includes:

Norwegian American Clean Tech Alliance – NACTA

Our founder, Lois Quam, along with one of Norway’s most prominent entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, Terje Mikalsen of Venturos, along with the Norwegian Consulate in Minneapolis, helped create NACTA, an association of members with common interest in expanding the cooperation between businesses in Norway and the US.

Based on the shared culture and heritage of the US and Norway, coupled with Norway’s admirable reputation in Clean Technologies and the environment, and the US’s ability to grow and scale new businesses from scratch, NACTA will promote and encourage significant and innovative collaboration between Norwegian and US companies in the NGE.

CC9 - Green Technology and Finance - Striking a Fair Climate Deal
Hafslund Manor, Sarpsborg, Norway

Oslo-based, The Environmental Bellona Foundation is a highly respected global environmental non-profit organization, which gained prominence in the late 1980s for their protests which led to significant changes in environmental policy.

Bellona, in cooperation with Club de Madrid, the esteemed international organization comprised of former heads of state, recently hand-picked 100 participants in education, NGOs, government and business for their NGE conference, “CC9 - Green Technology and Finance - Striking a Fair Climate Deal.”  Our founder, Lois Quam, is featured with Robert Kennedy, Jr., who was recently named as one of Time magazine’s “Heroes for the Planet,” on the subject, “How Can the US Become a Global Climate Leader?

The Ny-Ålesund Symposium 2009 - 79°N – Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard

Only 746 miles (1,200 km) from the North Pole, Ny-Ålesund sits the world’s northernmost permanent settlement.  Situated 79°N, on the west coast of Spitsbergen, the largest island in the Svalbard archipelago, the Norwegian government developed Ny-Ålesund, a former mining community in the Arctic, into an important international site for research and environmental monitoring. The base now has 10 permanent research stations and hosts visiting scientists from around 20 nations.

There, against unspoiled Arctic nature, and far from civilization, our founder, Lois Quam, will join Nobel Peace Prize winner and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chairman, Reynaud K. Pachauri, at the highly prestigious, The Ny-Ålesund Symposium 2009, “Climate Change: Understanding and Influencing Global Politics Towards Copenhagen and Beyond.”

Traveling to the Ny-Ålesund Symposium, Ms. Quam will depart on a commercial plane from Tromsø, Norway, to Longyearbyen, the most northerly town in the world with a population over 1,000, and from there, strap herself in for a picturesque helicopter ride across iceberg laden arctic waters to Ny-Ålesund.

This year’s symposium, sponsored by H.R.H. Crown Prince Haakon, Patron of The Ny-Ålesund Symposium, focuses on global energy and climate challenge.

Tysvar. We are a strategic advisor and incubator of ideas, organizations, businesses, and people, and we do so in a collaborative, team-based approach.  We achieve our best results working with others for a common solution.