Jeremy Rifkin
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Age of Resilience is a wide-ranging look at the political, economic and cultural effects of the global shift from an economy based on efficiency to one based on resilience, from New York Times bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin..."--
2) The third industrial revolution: how lateral power is transforming energy, the economy and the world
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"We are undergoing a historical transformation in the way we create and disseminate energy. Together, Internet technology and the reality of renewable energy are creating a new type of electrical grid, one in which energy is stored and distributed on an individual basis. Soon, hundreds of millions of human beings will be generating their own green energy in their homes, offices and factories, and sharing it, just as they now create their own information...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A new vision for America's future is quickly gaining momentum. Facing a global emergency, a younger generation is spearheading a national conversation around a Green New Deal and setting the agenda for a bold political movement with the potential to revolutionize society. Millennials, the largest voting bloc in the country, are now leading on the issue of climate change. While the Green New Deal has become a lightning rod in the political sphere,...
Author
Publisher
Polity Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
What would happen if we were to awaken one day and suddenly realize that the world we live in appeared eerily alien, as if we'd been teleported to some other distant world? That frightening prospect is now. Our planetary hydrosphere, which animates all of life on Earth, is rebelling in the wake of a global warming climate, spurring biblical spring floods, devastating summer droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires and powerful autumn hurricanes and typhoons,...
10) The age of access: the new culture of hypercapitalism, where all of life is a paid-for experience
Author
Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English