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It’s time to pour our creative energies into imagining a new global economy. Infinite growth is a dangerous illusion 
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A few weeks ago I wrote about Jeremy Rifkin’s latest book titled The Zero Marginal Cost Society. It has been a most interesting read and for me has created a new way of interpreting many current events. In that post I mostly focused on the economic transformations Rifkin sees in the not-to-distant future, and have wondered what that means for the future of construction, especially residential. He touches upon it a little, but most of his writing is about economic transformation on a societal scale. In this post I will delve into what little information is available about changes coming to construction and the coming of the sharing society. But first a little more background.
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When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and took communism with it, the well-respected consulting firm Global Business Network (GBN) was asked to paint alternative scenarios for a post-Communist world. They developed three scenarios:
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Zoe Williams: If ordinary people were in charge of the energy sector, it would drive the shift to renewables – and there would be far less waste
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Jeremy Rifkin, an internationally renowned economist and author, advised Korea to shift its gears to embrace renewable energy sources to better prepare for the era of the so-called “sharing economy.”
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If you want to change society—or are interested in aiding or evaluating the efforts of others to do so—some understanding of exactly how environmental circumstances affect such efforts could be extremely helpful.
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What happens when an Internet revolution merges with a renewable energy revolution? Jeremy Rifkin, author of 19 books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment and adviser to President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, speaks about a new Third Industrial Revolution - one based on a distributed, lateral power. The result may just be a sustainable world.
Michael Hohenwarter's curator insight,
January 8, 2014 4:18 PM
The concept of lateral power - it`s the opposite of hirachical power. Rifkin puts it in the context of energy and the internet...the gateway to a sustainable future! 
Josef Kreitmayer's curator insight,
January 22, 2014 4:59 PM
Heute mit jemandem aus Spanien gesprochen. Dort hat das Internet eine völlig neue Umgangsweise mit Nachrichten, und der Lage entwickelt. Vor kurzem leisteten die Bürger*innen einiger Städte gemeinsam "Widerstand" um die Bürger*innen einer Stadt zu unterstützen, in ihrem Kampf, um ein teures Parkgaragen-Projekt zu verhindern, das nur wenigen, diesen aber viel, Nutzen gebracht hätte.
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As the impact of Fukishima continues to terrify the Japanese people, a remote Toyota plant in northeastern Japan is poinitng the way forward after the devastating quake-tsunami more than two years after it was completely shut it down.
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