It was my birthday. Not just any odd birthday — it was my 60th birthday. And there was this invitation by Karthik Ramanna to attend the inauguration conference of the newly founded E-liability Institute in London. Karthik works on carbon content measurement. From the accounting side he had discovered the same principle as I did from the statistical side — information on carbon content needs to be passed directly from supplier to producer, in a decentralized fashion. This will allow to build up a universal system of carbon content measurement: on the product level, on the company level and on the level of sectors and countries. And Karthik is incredibly successful in promoting this idea.
Thus I decided to attend the conference, making the trip by train. Here is a link to the program and a view of the site, in the docklands, east of London.
I learned and saw a lot and made new connections — but on the evening of my birthday I began to feel rather lonesome without my family. There was a short speech before dinner, and then, when everybody had a glass in their hand, the speech suddenly turned to me and my anniversary. Karthik had a small cake in his hand and the entire conference (!) sung “Happy Birthday”. I will certainly never have this again…!
