ISBN 978-0-230-11521-7. “The Third Industrial Revolution – how lateral power is transforming energy, the economy and the world” by Jeremy Rifkin was published in 2011 by Palgrave Macmillan. Your 287 pages deliver acknowledgments, introduction, three parts each with three chapters, notes and index. To be perfectly honest we were not conscious of Rifkin’s work until this book came out. He certainly seemed quite invisible on the sustainability scene. This came right out of the left-field and knocked our socks off. The author certainly has the pedigree and, if you believe this book, he has enormous influence. It reads like a who’s who of Presidents, Prime Ministers, Governments, Ministers, Heads of State, Kings, Princes, you name it. Continue reading →