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The Third Industrial Revolution
Jeremy
Rifkin, American economic and social theorist, author of several books,
business school professor, and policy adviser to world leaders and
CEOs, wrote ‘The Third Industrial Revolution’ in 2011. The book, and a
subsequent video lecture filmed by VICE media (and promoted by the P2P
Foundation), tells the story of a world gone wrong, of the First
(1800’s) and Second (1900’s) versions of ‘the Industrial Revolution’,
and how we will never survive the Anthropocene era if we continue down
those paths.
Rifkin notes that, like all revolutions, what
started in Britain and
spread worldwide, began with improved communications followed closely
by advances in power (generation) and increasing mobility. The 1800's
had the printing press and the telegraph, mechanical looms, and the
steam engine powered by coal. That era gave way to the ‘modern’
capitalistic world with the telephone, radio, and television powered by
hydro and nuclear electricity while we moved around in automobiles and
airplanes powered with fossil fuels.
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Great Lakes: Shared Water, Shared
Responsibility
The International Joint Commission has been
promising an updated version of the 1972 Great Lakes Water Quality
Agreement. In September 2012, media reported that a new, improved,
Agreement was at hand. Here is some background on that Agreement and
why it is important.
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Is Canada ready for the Smart Grid?
 The
rollout of 'smart meters' has begun in select provinces such as B.C.
and Ontario. Utility companies in other regions lag far behind. Aging
infrastructure and pressures from renewable energy projects are just
two challenges for the country to meet its targets of a digital,
self-healing system by the end of 2011.
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Lawson Hunter & Associates, an
enterprise that has evolved as the concepts of 'mass media' and
'communications' have undergone several revolutions. With experience in
radio & television production, public relations, corporate &
marketing communications, Lawson Hunter has witnessed, and documented,
our changing world on the global stage and in neighbourhood streets.
And through it all he has viewed these changes through the eyes of
hundreds of interviewees, the subjects of freelance journalism and
commentary on topics as diverse as business, economics, the Internet
and technology, the environment, and sustainability.
Current projects:
- Freelance magazine and journal articles
- Research on business and sustainability
topics
- White papers, ghostwriting, corporate
writing and business plans
- 'Permission Granted' - a book empowering
citizens on sustainability
- the 'Accidental Economist' - looking at
economic issues from an ecological perspective
- Fiction - unfinished novel in the bottom
drawer that beckons
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