Jeremy Rifkin

Tom Zeller Jr.

Jeremy Rifkin Predicts An Energy Revolution

HuffingtonPost.com | Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Energy, Power Grid, The Third Industrial Revolution, Electricity, Jeremy Rifkin, Economics, Fossil Fuels, Renewable Energy, Utilities, Clean Energy, Green Energy, Green News

On Monday, we posed a few questions to Jeremy Rifkin, the American economist and president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, whose new book, "The ...

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Step 1: Spending 100 Percent Of Our Efforts On Next Generation Technologies

Jigar Shah | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy, Third Industrial Revolution, Renewable Energies, Jeremy Rifkin, New Technologies, Renewable Energy Economy, Virtual Power Plants, Green News
Jigar Shah

Whether you are for ending our dependence on oil, job creation, safe water supplies, commodity price stability, or human health protection the answer leads to the same set of innovations and business models.

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Tom Zeller Jr.

Jeremy Rifkin: The 'Democratization Of Energy' Will Change Everything

HuffingtonPost.com | Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 11.26.2011

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Rampant unemployment, rising food prices, a collapsed housing market, ballooning debt -- to Jeremy Rifkin, the American economist and president of the...

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Is Technology Making Children More Empathic?

Dr. Larry Dossey | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Iphone, The Empathic Civilization, Apple Iphone, Social Networks, Empathy, Jeremy Rifkin, Larry Dossey, Science Spirituality, The Inner Life, Spiritual Life, Healthy Living News
Dr. Larry Dossey

While their parents value individualism and privacy, today's youngsters view connectivity, interaction and collaboration as everything. And forget privacy; for them, being out of touch is a cardinal sin.

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'The Empathic Civilization': Why Animals Deserve Our Empathy Too

Marc Bekoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Empathy, Jeremy Rifkin, Arianna's Reading, Empathy in Animals, Books, Animals, Empathic Civilization, Animals Compassion, Animal Play, Canids, Animals Emotions, Books News
Marc Bekoff

A much-needed paradigm shift in how we view other animals and ourselves brings hope and life to our dreams for a more compassionate, empathic, fair, and peaceful planet in which social justice prevails.

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'Empathic Civilization' LIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW With Author Jeremy Rifkin Tomorrow At 3pm

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.26.2011

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All throughout February, Arianna's been reading Jeremy Rifkin's "The Empathic Civilization"--the historical argument that empathy has helped us surviv...

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The Schadenfreude of CBS' Undercover Boss

Benyamin Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeremy Rifkin, Wall Street, Taco Bell, Ceos, Undercover Boss, Main Street, Empathic Civilization, Bernie Madoff, Cbs, Entertainment News
Benyamin Cohen

CBS has created a show where fat cat execs hop off their perch, spend time with the little people, and leave with a better understanding of what it takes to make a living nowadays. Call it the first truly recession-era reality show. Or just call it porn.

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'Empathic Civilization': Amazing Empathic Babies

Alison Gopnik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Child Development, Babies Imitation, Jean Piaget, Empathy, Jeremy Rifkin, Arianna's Reading, Mirror Neurons, Morality, Babies, Books, The Empathic Civilization, Books News
Alison Gopnik

One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

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'Empathic Civilization': Why Empathy Is Essential For Doctors And In Conflict Resolution

Jodi Halpern | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Jeremy Rifkin, Arianna's Reading, Conflict Resolution, I Know How You Feel, Books, Post-War, Sympathy, Empathic Civilization, Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Books News
Jodi Halpern

When empathy is guided by a deeper understanding of each other's perspectives, it offers enormous promise for helping us build global cooperation.

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'Empathic Civilization' in an Age of Trauma

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Obama, Empathic Understanding, Resurrective Ideology, Trauma, Mirror-Neurons, Economic Crisis, Existential Vulnerability, 9/11, Collective Trauma, Loss, Global Terrorism, Death, Jeremy Rifkin, George W. Bush, Arianna's Reading, The Empathic Civilization, Books News
Robert D. Stolorow

If we can help one another bear the darkness rather than evade it, perhaps one day we will be able to see the light.

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'The Empathic Civilization': Can Limbaugh and Obama Both Be Right?

Robbie Vorhaus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Empathic Civilization, Rush Limbaugh, Jeremy Rifkin, Empathy, Arianna's Reading, Books, Jfk, Barack Obama, Books News
Robbie Vorhaus

The Native American Chippewa Indians say, "No tree has branches so foolish as to fight amongst themselves." And yet we choose to fight to be right.

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'The Empathic Civilization": Narcissism Or Empathy? The Me Generation Or The We Generation?

Jean M. Twenge | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Child Development, Narcissism, Empathy, Self-Esteem, Jeremy Rifkin, Arianna's Reading, The Narcissism Epidemic, Madly in Love With Me, Books, The Empathic Civilization, Books News
Jean M. Twenge

If we are to move forward as a culture and as a nation, America must stop being the Madly in Love With Me Civilization and start being the Empathic Civilization.

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'Empathic Civilization': Why Have We Become So Uncivil?

Jeremy Rifkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeremy Rifkin

Washington insiders say they can't ever recall a period in American public life as full of anger and polarization as now.

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Prairie Humanism and The Empathic Civilization

Glenn W. Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Glenn W. Smith

Prairie humanists depend on the human biological capacity for empathy. This isn't surprising. There would be no human culture, and certainly no democracy, without empathy, which allows us to see the world through others' eyes.

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'Empathic Civilization' Excerpt: Homo-Empathicus, The Big Story That Historians Missed

The Huffington Post | Jeremy Rifkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Collectivism, Child Development, Empathy, Individualism, Jeremy Rifkin, Arianna's Reading, Books, Hegel, Socialization, Homo Empathicus, Empathic Civilization, Books News

The following is an excerpt from the HuffPost book club pick for February, Jeremy Rifkin's "The Empathic Civilization". Historians, by and large, wri...

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Only Empathy Can Save Us: Why Jeremy Rifkin's The Empathic Civilization Is This Month's HuffPost Book Club Pick

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Arianna Huffington

For this month's HuffPost Book Club, I have chosen Jeremy Rifkin's The Empathic Civilization, which boldly sets out to present nothing less than -- as Rifkin puts it -- "a new rendering of human history."

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Jeremy Rifkin's New Book: The Coolest Online Reading Experience

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011

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'Empathic Civilization' and Jeremy Rifkin are giving HuffPost Books the chance to deliver the coolest online reading experience we've seen yet. Why ar...

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'The Empathic Civilization': Rethinking Human Nature in the Biosphere Era

Jeremy Rifkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeremy Rifkin

Our rush to universal empathic connectivity is running up against a rapidly accelerating entropic juggernaut in the form of climate change. Can we reach biosphere consciousness in time to avert planetary collapse?

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