The Third Industrial Revolution
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The Third Industrial Revolution is a concept
and vision outlined by Jeremy Rifkin
and endorsed by the European Parliament
, in a formal declaration passed in June 2007 http://hyfleetcute.com/data/MEP%20Green%20H2%20Declaration.pdf. Throughout history, economic transformations occur when new communication technology converges with new energy systems. The new forms of communication become the medium for organizing and managing the more complex civilizations made possible by the new sources of energy. The conjoining of internet communication technology and renewable energies
in the 21st Century, is giving rise to the Third Industrial Revolution.
The Third Industrial Revolution is based upon 5 Pillars:
, greatly increased the speed of printing and significantly reduced the cost. Print material, in the form of newspapers, magazines, and books, proliferated in America and Europe, encouraging mass literacy for the first time in history. The advent of public schooling on both continents between the 1830s and 1890s created a print-literate workforce to organize the complex operations of a coal-powered, steam-driven rail
and factory economy.
In the first decade of the twentieth century, electrical communication converged with the oil-powered internal combustion engine, giving rise to the Second Industrial Revolution
. The electrification of factories ushered in the era of mass-produced manufactured goods, the most important being the automobile
. Henry Ford
began to mass-produce
his gasoline-powered Model T car
, altering the spatial and temporal dynamic of society
. Virtually over night, millions of people began to trade in their horses and buggies for automobiles. To meet the increased demand for fuel, the nascent oil industry revved up exploration and drilling, making the United States the leading oil producer in the world. Within two decades, cement highways were laid out across vast stretches of the American landscape and American families began relocating in new suburban communities that only a few years earlier were isolated rural hamlets. Thousands of miles of telephone lines were installed, and later radio
and television
were introduced, recasting social life and creating a communication grid to manage and market the far-flung activities of the oil economy and auto age.
is giving rise to a Third Industrial Revolution. Distributed communication revolution—Internet
, satellite
and wireless communication—converge with a new distributed energy revolution that could open the door to a new fuel era. The creation of a renewable energy
regime, loaded by buildings, partially stored in the form of hydrogen, distributed via smart intergrids and connected to plug in zero emission transport, opens the door to a Third Industrial Revolution. The entire system is interactive, integrated and seamless. This interconnectedness is creating whole new opportunities for cross-industry relationships. The Third Industrial Revolution brings with it a new era of “distributed capitalism” in which millions of existing and new businesses and homeowners become energy players. In the process, we will create millions of green jobs, jump start a new technology revolution, and dramatically increase productivity, as well as mitigate climate change
.
Concept
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and vision outlined by Jeremy Rifkin
Jeremy Rifkin
Jeremy Rifkin is an American economist, writer, public speaker, political advisor and activist. He is the founder and president of the Foundation On Economic Trends...
and endorsed by the European Parliament
European Parliament
The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...
, in a formal declaration passed in June 2007 http://hyfleetcute.com/data/MEP%20Green%20H2%20Declaration.pdf. Throughout history, economic transformations occur when new communication technology converges with new energy systems. The new forms of communication become the medium for organizing and managing the more complex civilizations made possible by the new sources of energy. The conjoining of internet communication technology and renewable energies
Renewable energy
Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable . About 16% of global final energy consumption comes from renewables, with 10% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.4% from...
in the 21st Century, is giving rise to the Third Industrial Revolution.
The Third Industrial Revolution is based upon 5 Pillars:
-
- Shifting to Renewable EnergyRenewable energyRenewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable . About 16% of global final energy consumption comes from renewables, with 10% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.4% from...
- Converting Buildings into Power Plants http://www.bouygues-construction.com/667i/sustainable-development/news/first-positive-energy-building.html
- Hydrogen and Other Energy StorageEnergy storageEnergy storage is accomplished by devices or physical media that store some form of energy to perform some useful operation at a later time. A device that stores energy is sometimes called an accumulator....
Technology - Smart Grid Technology
- Plug in, Electric, HybridHybrid vehicleA hybrid vehicle is a vehicle that uses two or more distinct power sources to move the vehicle. The term most commonly refers to hybrid electric vehicles , which combine an internal combustion engine and one or more electric motors.-Power:...
, and Fuel CellFuel cellA fuel cell is a device that converts the chemical energy from a fuel into electricity through a chemical reaction with oxygen or another oxidizing agent. Hydrogen is the most common fuel, but hydrocarbons such as natural gas and alcohols like methanol are sometimes used...
based Transportation http://www.verkehr.fraunhofer.de/media/mediaposter.php?mediaId=508
- Shifting to Renewable Energy
First and Second Industrial Revolution
The introduction of steam-powered technology into printing transformed the medium into the primary communication tool to manage the First Industrial Revolution. The steam printing machine with rollers, and later the rotary press and linotypeLinotype machine
The Linotype typesetting machine is a "line casting" machine used in printing. The name of the machine comes from the fact that it produces an entire line of metal type at once, hence a line-o'-type, a significant improvement over manual typesetting....
, greatly increased the speed of printing and significantly reduced the cost. Print material, in the form of newspapers, magazines, and books, proliferated in America and Europe, encouraging mass literacy for the first time in history. The advent of public schooling on both continents between the 1830s and 1890s created a print-literate workforce to organize the complex operations of a coal-powered, steam-driven rail
Steam locomotive
A steam locomotive is a railway locomotive that produces its power through a steam engine. These locomotives are fueled by burning some combustible material, usually coal, wood or oil, to produce steam in a boiler, which drives the steam engine...
and factory economy.
In the first decade of the twentieth century, electrical communication converged with the oil-powered internal combustion engine, giving rise to the Second Industrial Revolution
Second Industrial Revolution
The Second Industrial Revolution, also known as the Technological Revolution, was a phase of the larger Industrial Revolution corresponding to the latter half of the 19th century until World War I...
. The electrification of factories ushered in the era of mass-produced manufactured goods, the most important being the automobile
Automobile
An automobile, autocar, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor...
. Henry Ford
Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry...
began to mass-produce
Mass production
Mass production is the production of large amounts of standardized products, including and especially on assembly lines...
his gasoline-powered Model T car
Ford Model T
The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company from September 1908 to May 1927...
, altering the spatial and temporal dynamic of society
Society
A society, or a human society, is a group of people related to each other through persistent relations, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or virtual territory, subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations...
. Virtually over night, millions of people began to trade in their horses and buggies for automobiles. To meet the increased demand for fuel, the nascent oil industry revved up exploration and drilling, making the United States the leading oil producer in the world. Within two decades, cement highways were laid out across vast stretches of the American landscape and American families began relocating in new suburban communities that only a few years earlier were isolated rural hamlets. Thousands of miles of telephone lines were installed, and later radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
and television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
were introduced, recasting social life and creating a communication grid to manage and market the far-flung activities of the oil economy and auto age.
The Third Industrial Revolution
The theory argues that conjoining Internet communication technology and renewable energiesRenewable energy
Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable . About 16% of global final energy consumption comes from renewables, with 10% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.4% from...
is giving rise to a Third Industrial Revolution. Distributed communication revolution—Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
, satellite
Satellite
In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavour. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....
and wireless communication—converge with a new distributed energy revolution that could open the door to a new fuel era. The creation of a renewable energy
Renewable energy
Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable . About 16% of global final energy consumption comes from renewables, with 10% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.4% from...
regime, loaded by buildings, partially stored in the form of hydrogen, distributed via smart intergrids and connected to plug in zero emission transport, opens the door to a Third Industrial Revolution. The entire system is interactive, integrated and seamless. This interconnectedness is creating whole new opportunities for cross-industry relationships. The Third Industrial Revolution brings with it a new era of “distributed capitalism” in which millions of existing and new businesses and homeowners become energy players. In the process, we will create millions of green jobs, jump start a new technology revolution, and dramatically increase productivity, as well as mitigate climate change
Climate change
Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average...
.
Five pillars
When these five pillars come together, they make up an indivisible technological platform—an emergent system, whose properties and functions are qualitatively different than the sum of its parts. In other words, the synergies between the pillars creates a new economic paradigm that can transform the world.- Shifting to Renewable EnergyRenewable energyRenewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable . About 16% of global final energy consumption comes from renewables, with 10% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.4% from...
http://www.grist.org/article/a-global-shift-to-renewable-energy: Renewable forms of energy— solar, windWind powerWind power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form of energy, such as using wind turbines to make electricity, windmills for mechanical power, windpumps for water pumping or drainage, or sails to propel ships....
, hydroHydropowerHydropower, hydraulic power, hydrokinetic power or water power is power that is derived from the force or energy of falling water, which may be harnessed for useful purposes. Since ancient times, hydropower has been used for irrigation and the operation of various mechanical devices, such as...
, geothermal, ocean wavesWave powerWave power is the transport of energy by ocean surface waves, and the capture of that energy to do useful work — for example, electricity generation, water desalination, or the pumping of water...
, and biomassBiomassBiomass, as a renewable energy source, is biological material from living, or recently living organisms. As an energy source, biomass can either be used directly, or converted into other energy products such as biofuel....
— make up the first of the five pillars of the Third Industrial Revolution. While these energies still account for a small percentage of the global energy mix, they are growing rapidly as governments mandate targets and benchmarks for their widespread introduction into the market and their falling costs make them increasingly competitive. - Buildings as Power Plants: New technological breakthroughs make it possible, for the first time, to design and construct buildings that create all of their own energy from locally available renewable energyRenewable energyRenewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable . About 16% of global final energy consumption comes from renewables, with 10% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.4% from...
sources, allowing us to reconceptualize the future of buildings as “power plants”. The commercial and economic implications are vast and far reaching for the real estate industry and, for that matter, EuropeEuropeEurope is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and the worldWorldWorld is a common name for the whole of human civilization, specifically human experience, history, or the human condition in general, worldwide, i.e. anywhere on Earth....
. In 25 years from now, millions of buildings – homeHomeA home is a place of residence or refuge. When it refers to a building, it is usually a place in which an individual or a family can rest and store personal property. Most modern-day households contain sanitary facilities and a means of preparing food. Animals have their own homes as well, either...
s, offices, shopping malls, industrial and technology parks – will be constructed to serve as both “power plants” and habitats. These buildings will collect and generate energy locally from the sunSunThe Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields...
, windWindWind is the flow of gases on a large scale. On Earth, wind consists of the bulk movement of air. In outer space, solar wind is the movement of gases or charged particles from the sun through space, while planetary wind is the outgassing of light chemical elements from a planet's atmosphere into space...
, garbageWasteWaste is unwanted or useless materials. In biology, waste is any of the many unwanted substances or toxins that are expelled from living organisms, metabolic waste; such as urea, sweat or feces. Litter is waste which has been disposed of improperly...
, agricultural and forestry waste, ocean waves and tides, hydroHydropowerHydropower, hydraulic power, hydrokinetic power or water power is power that is derived from the force or energy of falling water, which may be harnessed for useful purposes. Since ancient times, hydropower has been used for irrigation and the operation of various mechanical devices, such as...
and geothermalGeothermalGeothermal is related to energy and may refer to:* The geothermal gradient and associated heat flows from within the Earth- Renewable technology :...
– enough energy to provide for their own power needs as well as surplus energy that can be shared. - Deploying Hydrogen and other storage technologiesEnergy storageEnergy storage is accomplished by devices or physical media that store some form of energy to perform some useful operation at a later time. A device that stores energy is sometimes called an accumulator....
in every building and throughout the infrastructure to store intermittent energies. To maximize renewable energyRenewable energyRenewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable . About 16% of global final energy consumption comes from renewables, with 10% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.4% from...
and to minimize cost it will be necessary to develop storage methods that facilitate the conversion of intermittent supplies of these energy sources into reliable assets. BatteriesBattery (electricity)An electrical battery is one or more electrochemical cells that convert stored chemical energy into electrical energy. Since the invention of the first battery in 1800 by Alessandro Volta and especially since the technically improved Daniell cell in 1836, batteries have become a common power...
, differentiated water pumping, and other media, can provide limited storage capacity. There is, however, one storage medium that is widely available and can be relatively efficient. Hydrogen is the universal medium that “stores” all forms of renewable energyRenewable energyRenewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable . About 16% of global final energy consumption comes from renewables, with 10% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.4% from...
to assure that a stable and reliable supply is available for power generation and, equally important, for transport. - Using Internet technology to transform the power grid of every continent into an energy sharing intergrid that acts just like the InternetInternetThe Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
. The reconfiguration of the world's power grid, along the lines of the internet, allowing businesses and homeowners to produce their own energy and share it with each other, is just now being tested by power companies in Europe. The new smart grids or intergrids will revolutionize the way electricity is produced and delivered. Millions of existing and new buildings—homes, offices, factories—will be converted or built to serve as “positive power plants” that can capture local renewable energyRenewable energyRenewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable . About 16% of global final energy consumption comes from renewables, with 10% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.4% from...
—solar, windWind powerWind power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form of energy, such as using wind turbines to make electricity, windmills for mechanical power, windpumps for water pumping or drainage, or sails to propel ships....
, geothermal, biomassBiomassBiomass, as a renewable energy source, is biological material from living, or recently living organisms. As an energy source, biomass can either be used directly, or converted into other energy products such as biofuel....
, hydroHydropowerHydropower, hydraulic power, hydrokinetic power or water power is power that is derived from the force or energy of falling water, which may be harnessed for useful purposes. Since ancient times, hydropower has been used for irrigation and the operation of various mechanical devices, such as...
, and ocean wavesWave powerWave power is the transport of energy by ocean surface waves, and the capture of that energy to do useful work — for example, electricity generation, water desalination, or the pumping of water...
—to create electricity to power the buildings, while sharing the surplus power with others across smart intergrids, just like we now produce our own information and share it with each other across the Internet. - Transitioning the transport fleet to electric, plug in and fuel cell vehicles that can buy and sell electricity on a smart continental interactive power grid. The electricity we produce in our buildings from renewable energyRenewable energyRenewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable . About 16% of global final energy consumption comes from renewables, with 10% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.4% from...
will also be used to power electric plug-in cars or to create hydrogen to power fuel cellFuel cellA fuel cell is a device that converts the chemical energy from a fuel into electricity through a chemical reaction with oxygen or another oxidizing agent. Hydrogen is the most common fuel, but hydrocarbons such as natural gas and alcohols like methanol are sometimes used...
vehicles. The electric plug in vehicles, in turn, will also serve as portable power plants that can sell electricity back to the main grid.
European Union
- In January 2008 the European CommissionEuropean CommissionThe European Commission is the executive body of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Union's treaties and the general day-to-day running of the Union....
proposed binding legislation to implement the 20-20-20 targets. This ‘climate and energy package’ was agreed by the European ParliamentEuropean ParliamentThe European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...
and Council in December 2008 and became law in June 2009 http://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/package/index_en.htm. EuropeEuropeEurope is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
is leading the way to the Third Industrial Revolution through mandating a cut of 20% of emissions of greenhouse gases , compared with 1990 levels, moving toward a 20% increase in the share of renewables in the energy mix, and cutting energy consumption by 20%, all by 2020. The 27 EU member states are making every effort to ensure that the remaining stock of fossil fuels is used more efficiently and are experimenting with clean energy technologies to limit carbon dioxideCarbon dioxideCarbon dioxide is a naturally occurring chemical compound composed of two oxygen atoms covalently bonded to a single carbon atom...
emissions in the burning of conventional fuels http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7765094.stm.
- In BrusselsBrusselsBrussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
, February 1, 2010, the Environment Committee of the European Parliament, chaired by Jo LeinenJo LeinenJo Leinen is a Member of the European Parliament. He was elected on the SPD ticket and acts as a representative within the Party of European Socialists group...
MEP, and representatives of the five major political groups in the EP joined today with Europe’s main associations representing small and medium-sized companies (UEAPMEUEAPMEThe European Association of Craft, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises or UEAPME is an umbrella group for associations of SMEs based in Brussels, Belgium. UEAPME represents the interests of European crafts, trades and SMEs at EU level...
), consumers’ interests (BEUC), cooperatives(Cooperatives Europe) and the Foundation on Economic Trends in a call for a “Third Industrial Revolution” ahead of the European Council’s summit devoted to energy. The European Parliament will forward a declaration to Herman Van RompuyHerman Van RompuyHerman Achille Van Rompuy is the first long-term and full-time President of the European Council...
, President of the European Council, and José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, requesting a comprehensive legislative plan with adequate means to implement the “Third Industrial Revolution” energy strategy across Member States http://www.ueapme.com/IMG/pdf/110201_joint_pr_third_industrial_revolution.pdf.http://www.endseurope.com/25505/leaders-urged-to-spur-new-industrial-revolution http://www.europarl.europa.eu/pdfs/news/expert/agenda_week_by_type/06-2011/06-2011_en.pdf. The plan also focuses on the shift to a new economic paradigm for the next stage of European integration https://docs.google.com/a/foet.org/viewer?a=v&q=cache:mf45G3Tnw1MJ:cetri-tires.org/press/?dl_id%3D51+%22Third+Industrial+Revolution%22,+European+Parliament,+Brussels,+1+February+2011&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgrXJfEphxeqMTn97Jd59Hw2uy_QLiiWqLlSMbHogqXhHb90sGHS1EhyxBBrpQ7v731chlchEhLRoO5CMM36VEL_Jrnj6-0CIIuVlxVJsGqsCDPqPZbfiyrLoQ4A94WknI0tjIB&sig=AHIEtbTy48fNtl3kMZb4u92ZiL1KGCFMRA.
United Kingdom
- Secretary of State for Energy and Climate changeClimate changeClimate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average...
Chris HuhneChris HuhneChristopher Murray Paul-Huhne, generally known as Chris Huhne is a British politician and cabinet minister, who is the current Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for the Eastleigh constituency in Hampshire...
has publicly endorsed the need for a Third Industrial Revolution. He recently constructed a framework for the UK in the "The White Paper for Energy Market Reform" http://www.decc.gov.uk/assets/decc/11/policy-legislation/EMR/2175-emr-white-paper-exec-summary.pdf. The White Paper components include:A Carbon Price Floor (announced in Budget 2011) to reduce investor uncertainty, putting a fair price on carbon and providing a stronger incentive to invest in low-carbon generation now. The introduction of new long-term contracts (Feed-in Tariff with Contracts for Difference) to provide stable financial incentives to invest in all forms of low-carbon electricity generation. An Emissions Performance Standard (EPS) set at 450g CO2/kWh to reinforce the requirement that no new coal-fired power stations are built without carbon capture and storageCarbon capture and storageCarbon capture and storage , alternatively referred to as carbon capture and sequestration, is a technology to prevent large quantities of from being released into the atmosphere from the use of fossil fuel in power generation and other industries. It is often regarded as a means of mitigating...
systems, but also to ensure necessary short-term investment in gas can take place. A Capacity Mechanism, including demand response as well as generation, which is needed to ensure future security of electricity supply http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/legislation/white_papers/emr_wp_2011/emr_wp_2011.aspx.
Netherlands
- On June 6, 2010, the "Utrecht2040: Entrepreneurship with New Energy" conference was held, bringing together decision makers from business, including the national energy companies, construction companies and engineering firms, the Utrecht knowledge institutions and government. The Urecht Energy Master Plan http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vDW08k-Quw4J:www.provincie-utrecht.nl/publish/library/1082/utrecht_roadmap_3_industrial_revolution.pdf+utrecht+third+industrial+revolution&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com was implemented to incorporate the pillars of the Third Industrial Revolution into action steps. UtrechtUtrechtUtrecht is a city in the Netherlands.The name may also refer to:* Utrecht , of which Utrecht is the capital* Utrecht , including the city of Utrecht* Bishopric of Utrecht* Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht...
is one of the fastest growing areas in the NetherlandsNetherlandsThe Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
, as well as all of Europe, and is spearheading the European Union's transition toward biosphere politics, and the shift away from geopolitics. The goal is to implement the pillars of the Third Industrial Revolution to replenish and rejuvenate the earth for generations to come http://www.reneuer.com/upload/utrecht_nl_M.pdfhttp://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://dnu.nu/artikel/1394-jeremy-rifkin-sluit-bezoek-aan-utrecht-af&ei=Z4MoTv_LI-2n0AGXuZTZCg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CD0Q7gEwAg&prev=/search%3Fq%3DUtrecht%2Bjeremy%2Brifkin%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26biw%3D1066%26bih%3D777%26prmd%3Divnso.
Italy
- On January 24, 2011, the CGIL conference was held in RomeRomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
, ItalyItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
. The event was organized by TIRES, which is the Third Industrial Revolution European Society. For the first time ever, all the forces of business, those representing the capital and those that represent the work, are united in the same battle for a new energy model that will create jobs and new business opportunities for companies in the area, innovative training for workers, and applied research opportunities for original research organizations. Topics included the discussion about new labor opportunities that will develop and become essential in the new post-carbon society http://cetri-tires.org/press/?p=3938&lang=it.
U.S.
- March 2003, CPS EnergyCPS EnergyCPS Energy of San Antonio, Texas is the United States' largest municipally owned utility company, with combined natural gas and electric service. Fourteen percent of all utility revenues are returned to the City of San Antonio, and those revenues make up more than 20 percent of the City of San...
Board of Trustees issued an agenda and focus document detailing the Board’s responsibilities to the company, our owner (the City of San Antonio) and the community. The plan would successfully bring CPS and the city of San Antonio to the forefront of the Third Industrial Revolution. It calls for (1) vigorously pursuing energy efficiency/conservation; (2) significantly increasing the supply of renewable energy; (3) maintaining the company’s environmental commitment; and (4) continuing to supply reliable, cost-competitive electricity. Looking to the future, the Board plans to sharpen its focus to prepare the energy system to acknowledge and embrace an emerging energy mode that will evolve our current infrastructure to a more-dynamic infrastructure in the next century. They will continue to maintain the present energy infrastructure to produce and distribute power, and will support new centralized power generation units that utilize fossil fuels. In tandem, they will augment the support of Vision 2020 to reduce our energy needs by 771 megawatts by 2020, through energy efficiency and conservation http://www.cpsenergy.com/Residential/Information_Library/Sustainability_Policy.asp.The Board is also carefully examining a new vision, the Third Industrial Revolutions, that will shift core competencies of designing, building and managing centralized energy sources to distributed energy sources that are renewable and that use modern technologies. Such technologies will be smart, reliable and economical in preparation for the economic and environmental challenges that CPS Energy and the community will face. This shift will lead CPS Energy to become independent from energy that is generated outside their grid http://www.cpsenergy.com/Residential/Information_Library/Sustainability_Policy.asp.
- 2009- San Antonio has already taken significant first steps toward this new era of sustainability. The City of San Antonio’s “Mission Verde” and the CPS Energy’s “Vision 2020” both emphasize specific actions that the community has taken to transition into the Third Industrial Revolution. Green jobs and adequate financing mechanisms are among the challenges being addressed by the City’s Mission Verde plan. And CPS Energy has already embraced the need for a more energy-efficient economy that is increasingly powered by renewable energy and other clean energy technologies. These actions, coupled with the insights and ideas that emerged from the April 2009 workshop on sustainability (convened by the City of San Antonio and CPS Energy) provide the groundwork for specifying how the vision of a Third Industrial Revolution might be applied to the specific conditions and constraints faced by the city of San Antonio http://www.cpsenergy.com/files/A_Vision_for_Sustainability.pdf.
External links
- Stakeholders urge EU institutions to support the “Third Industrial Revolution”
- EU PARLIAMENT DECLARATION ON ENERGY AND THE ECONOMY
- European Energy Review
- Europe's New Energy Era
- Europe's Financing of the Third Industrial Revolution
- Making Europe’s Buildings Efficient
- How The European Union is Preparing the "Third Industrial Revolution" With an Innovative Energy Policy
- https://docs.google.com/a/foet.org/viewer?a=v&q=cache:mf45G3Tnw1MJ:cetri-tires.org/press/?dl_id%3D51+%22Third+Industrial+Revolution%22,+European+Parliament,+Brussels,+1+February+2011&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgrXJfEphxeqMTn97Jd59Hw2uy_QLiiWqLlSMbHogqXhHb90sGHS1EhyxBBrpQ7v731chlchEhLRoO5CMM36VEL_Jrnj6-0CIIuVlxVJsGqsCDPqPZbfiyrLoQ4A94WknI0tjIB&sig=AHIEtbTy48fNtl3kMZb4u92ZiL1KGCFMRA&pli=1European Council: "Post Carbon Economy Requires Third Industrial Revolution"]
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