Denmark has done what other countries only dream of doing: achieved energy independence.

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Meanwhile, online appointment booking is at least two years away and some of the most innovative ideas deployed in other countries are but a distant dream.

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TEDActive attracts a less buttoned-up, more diverse audience (35 countries are now represented) eager to brainstorm, dream, doodle, debate, and engage late into the desert night.

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The first step towards the Bolivarian dream had been Petrocaribe - a scheme to provide cheap oil to the countries of Central America and the Caribbean that depend on imports.

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This is a pipe-dream, if only because NATO's membership includes such non-EU countries as Canada, Norway and Turkey.

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Yet his most important goal was the building of an alliance among the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean that would fulfil the frustrated dream of his great hero, South American independence leader Simon Bolivar, two centuries before.

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The notion that entire communities and countries could be completely powered by renewable energy still seems like a pipe dream to many.

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And now it is my honor to introduce someone who believes deeply in that American Dream -- we are both products of that, as the children of those who came from other countries.

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