Athens News Agency reported that, on 4 June 2009, at a two-day international conference in Athens on "Climate Change and Challenges for the Future Generations" under the patronage of UNESCO, Greece's Development Minister Kostis Hatzidakis said that Agios Efstratios would soon become the country's first "green" island, entirely powered by renewable energy sources (RES), its residents relying on solar and wind generated energy and moving around the island on bicycles and in electric cars.
Athens News Agency informou que, o 4 de xuño de 2009, na conferencia internacional de dous días en Atenas sobre o "Cambio climático e Desafíos para as xeracións futuras", baixo o patrocinio da UNESCO, o ministro de Desenvolvemento de Grecia Kostis Hatzidakis dixo que Agios Efstratios pronto se convertería na primeira illa "verde" do país, totalmente impulsada por fontes de enerxía renovable (FER), os seus residentes que dependen da enerxía solar e eólica xerada e móvense ao redor da illa en bicicletas e coches eléctricos.