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	Jeremy Rifkin, Professional Speaker
		Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, is the author of seventeen books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment.
		Jeremy Rifkin holds a degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a degree in international affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
		Rifkin is the founder and president of The Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, DC.
	www.goldstars.com /speakers/rifkin_jeremy.html (596 words)

	Jeremy Rifkin
		Jeremy Rifkin is the author of fifteen books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment.
		Rifkin’s newest international bestseller, The Age of Access, which was published in March 2000, is the third in his series on future trends in science, technology and the global economy in the 21st century.
		Rifkin holds a degree in economics from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce of the University of Pennsylvania, and a degree in international affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
	www.venusproject.com /books_authors/jeremy_rifkin.html (1263 words)

	Jeremy Rifkin -- Business Motivational Speakers
		Jeremy Rifkin is one of the world’s foremost authorities on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, society and environment.
		Jeremy Rifkin is an advisor to heads of state and government officials around the world and speaks frequently before business, labor and civic forums.
		Rifkin has been a fellow at the Wharton School’s Executive Education Program, where he lectures to CEOs and senior corporate management from around the world on new trends in science and technology and their impacts on the global economy, society and the environment.
	www.bigspeak.com /jeremy-rifkin.html (257 words)

	Jeremy Rifkin The Foundation on Economic Trends
		Rifkin was the honored guest of Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, at the Berliner Gespräche.
		Jeremy Rifkin is the author of seventeen best-selling books on the impact of scientific, technological, and cultural changes on the economy, society, and the environment.
		Rifkin is the founder and president of The Foundation on Economic Trends, based in the Washington, DC area.
	www.foet.org (452 words)

	Jeremy Rifkin Experiences the Future
		Jeremy Rifkin, noted futurist, lecturer, author and President of the "The Foundation on Economic Trends", in Washington, DC, had the opportunity to experience the future, here in Ojai, California, which is an emerging center for complementary therapies and frontier medicine.
		Rifkin is one of a handful of American intellectuals whose economic and social ideas have been widely embraced in Europe by government, industry, and civil society.
		Rifkin has also served as an advisor to government leaders and heads of state and is currently serving as a personal advisor to Romano Prodi, the President of the European Commission, the governing body of the European Union.
	www.aromacomposer.org /J_Rifkin.html (1052 words)

	TCS Daily - Beyond Jeremy Rifkin
		Rifkin has moved on in recent years to make predictions and speculations in other realms -- that Americans' consumption of beef causes domestic violence, and that Europe is becoming ascendant while America is languishing, for example -- none of which has been credible or correct.
		Rifkin, MAS offers all the advantages of genetic improvement without the supposedly significant risks to human health and the environment posed by gene-splicing applied to plants, a "primitive" technology.
		Rifkin has never "been there." Some of us try in our professional lives to build edifices of one sort or another, to make society richer and more equitable, to make life less "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short," in the words of Thomas Hobbes.
	www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=070606G (997 words)

	Dossier - Jeremy Rifkin
		Jeremy Rifkin is President of the Foundation on Economic Trends, President of the Greenhouse Crisis Foundation and head of the Beyond Beef Coalition.
		Although Rifkin possesses no formal training in the sciences, he nonetheless speaks out against biotechnology, the genetic research that could offer cures to diseases such as Sickle Cell Anemia, Alzheimer's and others and has already made possible the development of heartier, more disease-resistant agricultural crops.
		Jeremy Rifkin's newest crusade has been against the beef industry.
	www.nationalcenter.org /dos7126.htm (500 words)

	Jeremy Rifkin
		Rifkin argues that while the great American Dream is fading, a powerful new European Dream is beginning to capture the attention and imagination of the world.
		Rifkin draws on more than twenty years of personal experience working in Europe, where he has advised heads of state and political parties, consulted with Europe’s leading companies, and helped spur grass-roots, environmental, and social justice campaigns.
		Rifkin is an advisor to heads of state and government officials around the world and speaks frequently before business, labor and civic forums.
	www.goodmanspeakersbureau.com /biographies/rifkin_jeremy.htm (590 words)

	Jeremy Rifkin - Premiere Speakers Bureau
		Rifkin observes that we are fast approaching a critical watershed for the fossil-fuel era, with potentially dire consequences for industrial civilization.
		Rifkin was recently asked to advise the Democratic Policy Committee of the U.S. Senate on how to develop an exit-strategy from oil and usher in a hydrogen economy for the country.
		Rifkin subsequently spoke at a lunch hosted for him in the U.S. Senate where he briefed all of the Democratic senators on how to address the energy crisis, global warming and the transition to renewable energies and a hydrogen based future.
	premierespeakers.com /1983/index.cfm (4116 words)

	Powell's Books - The European Dream by Jeremy Rifkin
		Rifkin traces the cultural roots of what he says is America's lack of vision to its emphasis on individual autonomy and the accumulation of wealth; Europe's dream is more rooted in connectedness and quality of life.
		Rifkin's claims are not new, but he writes with striking clarity, combining the insights of contemporary sociologists and economists with up-to-the minute data and powerfully apt journalistic observations.
		Jeremy Rifkin is the bestselling author of The End of Work, The Biotech Century, The Age of Access, and The Hydrogen Economy.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-1585423459-3 (669 words)

	NPS - Cebrowski: Energy Conversation
		Rifkin served as an advisor to Romano Prodi when he was president of the European Commission.
		Rifkin is now serving as the principal senior advisor to the leadership group of the European Parliament on the European Union Hydrogen Economy Initiative.
		Rifkin is also currently advising Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, and Romano Prodi, the newly elected Prime Minister of Italy on energy and economic related issues.
	www.nps.edu /cebrowski/rifkin.html (531 words)

	Jeremy Rifkin speaks for International Speakers Bureau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jeremy Rifkin explores the vast changes occuring in our capitalist system as it makes the transition from geographic markets to e-commerce networks and from industrial to cultural production.
		Jeremy Rifkin explores the social and economic ramifications of technology on the workforce.
		Jeremy Rifkin believes that now is the time to begin a soul-searching re-evaluation of the American Dream in light of the new realities that face us in the 21st century, although he has no illusions as to the difficulty of the task.
	www.internationalspeakers.com /speakers/ISBB-553BK5/Jeremy_Rifkin (985 words)

	Commentary by Jeremy Rifkin
		–Jeremy Rifkin is a Fellow at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and author of The Biotech Century, The Age of Access, and The End of Work.
		By claiming that research on cloning is “the beginning of a new journey,” Rifkin starts down the slippery slope of treating the worst-case scenario about the future as if it were likely to happen.
		Rifkin assumes that people will “order up designer babies” merely if it will be possible to do so.
	home.att.net /~profmulder/SampleRifkin.htm (1419 words)

	Jeremy Rifkin
		Rifkin and his Foundation on Economic Trends succeeded in getting 180 leaders from 80 different religious groups to sign a letter calling for a ban on patenting of genetically engineered animals and human organs, cells and genes.
		Rifkin is prominent for his campaigns on genetic patenting, the release of genetically-engineered organisms into the environment, bovine growth hormone to human cloning.
		Jeremy Rifkin is struck by the change that the whole process and its prospects represent in our attitude to nature-and consequently in the way we conceive of ourselves.
	www.dhushara.com /book/genes/genaug/rifk.htm (1056 words)

	AlterNet: Commodifying Human Experience: An Interview with Jeremy Rifkin
		Rifkin uses such favorite pomo terms as immateriality and decenteredness to describe how cyber networks, electronic commerce and lifestyle marketing are resulting in a final, nightmarish stage of capitalism.
		Rifkin realizes he may be somewhat out of bounds in describing the psychological consciousness of the dot-com generation.
		According to Rifkin, the way out of the hypercapitalist conundrum is through social movements, such as the campaigns for biodiversity and cultural diversity, that underscore the local and the historical.
	www.alternet.org /story/79 (1668 words)

	The Jobs Letter -- A Rifkin Reader
		The world, says Rifkin, is fast polarizing into two potentially irreconcilable forces: on one side, an information elite that controls and manages the high-tech global economy; and on the other, the growing numbers of permanently displaced workers, who have few prospects and little hope for meaningful employment in an increasingly automated world.
		Rifkin suggests that we move beyond the delusion of retraining for nonexistent jobs.
		Jeremy Rifkin is the author of thirteen books on the impact of technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment.
	www.jobsletter.org.nz /art/rifkin01.htm (599 words)

	Amazon.ca: Biotech Century: Books: Jeremy Rifkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jeremy Rifkin is more concerned with the dangers of this technology, and in The Biotech Century, he presents numerous compelling reasons why we should be, too.
		Rifkin doesn't use this term, but on the popular level, I think many people will immediately recognize this line of pantheistic thinking as "New Age." I couldn't help but be reminded of the "evolutionary messiah" motif of films like the Matrix, Dune, and Dark City.
		Rifkin points out that if we are to challenge the indiscriminate use of genetic engineering, we must fight the new paradigm before it becomes taken for granted in society.
	www.amazon.ca /Biotech-Century-Jeremy-Rifkin/dp/0874779537 (2167 words)

	Biosphere Politics by Jeremy Rifkin - A Book Review by Scott London
		Jeremy Rifkin is an immensely persuasive writer and a fine synthesizer of cutting-edge ideas.
		Rifkin uses the metaphor of "enclosure" to trace the development of contemporary culture and its flawed relationship to the biosphere.
		Rifkin applies this metaphor to our modern world where the land, sea and air, the electromagnetic spectrum, outer space, and even the genes that program life itself, have become subject to manipulation, control and commercial exploitation.
	www.scottlondon.com /reviews/rifkin.html (557 words)

	Amazon.ca: Hydrogen Economy: Books: Jeremy Rifkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jeremy Rifkin's book _The Hydrogen Economy_ explains the current fossil-fuel economy and how it got to where it is today and how it's going to be replaced.
		Jeremy Rifkin's latest effort at popularization tackles the energy problem, which never went away, but is back on everyone's mind after 9/11.
		Rifkin writes "Providing these 100 million (per year) new users with an average per capita consumption of electricity equivalent to what US consumers enjoyed in 195 would require the creation of 10 million megawatts of new electricity capacity globally by 2005".
	www.amazon.ca /Hydrogen-Economy-Jeremy-Rifkin/dp/0745630421 (1924 words)

	TIJ Book Review: Jeremy Rifkin
		Rifkin successfully argues that the worldviews of human cultures to date have not only been empirically incorrect but downright pathological.
		Troubling only is the degree to which Rifkin and others like him have acquiesced in the idea of inevitability and the received definition of a set of problems that might have other solutions if couched in terms of a contest over power.
		If this is not so, then one consequence of accepting Rifkin's grand alternative vision is that we will have to accept on faith the willingness of both government and the corporate sector to understand and do their parts.
	www.innovation.cc /book-reviews/rifkin.htm (2613 words)

	Jeremy Rifkin
		RIFKIN was one of three Keynote Speakers at the
		Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, will offer a thought provoking probe into the implications of economic and demographic trends at the Sept. 16 general session.
		Rifkin moved on from his anti-meat crusade, to his current “labor/workforce” agenda after it was disclosed that Monfort Meat Company (the company featured in the Mother Jones article and where GAP whistle-blower USDA inspector COCKERHAM was assigned) was one of the suppliers of the meat thought to cause the Seattle Jack-in-the-Box E.coli outbreak.
	www.knology.net /~bilrum/rifkin.htm (735 words)

	Amazon.de: The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism, Where All of Life Is a Paid-for Experience: English ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jeremy Rifkin pulls the plug on the trend away from property ownership and free public life in The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism, Where All of Life is a Paid-For Experience.
		In my opinion Rifkin may act effectively, without no risky millenarian side-effects, both with readers already accustomed to the arguments of entrenched futurology (Toffler and Naisbitt are in my opinion just some steps behind Rifkin in terms of analytical and factual depth) and with the total newcomers to this kind of topics.
		Rifkin calls this state of existence the "hypercapitalistic economy." In this type of economy everything is service-based where "just-in-time" access is standard and achieved through expansive commercial networks residing in cyberspace.
	www.amazon.de /Age-Access-Jeremy-Rifkin/dp/1585420824 (2851 words)

	Julian Borger on Jeremy Rifkin, Jeramiah of the global economy
		Rifkin is now a fellow at Wharton, the most prestigious business school in the US, probably the world - a temple, bar none, to the power of market forces.
		Rifkin's remedy is to pay more attention to fostering culture, particularly local culture, by promoting community-based education in an attempt to provide children with a deeper understanding of the world than computer screens alone can provide.
		Rifkin does seem to ignore or at least play down trends which conflict with his central theory - like the growth in ownership of homes and securities among the burgeoning middle classes.
	www.mindfully.org /Reform/Jeremy-Rifkin-Global-Economy.htm (1726 words)

	Trans-Atlantic tripe: Jeremy Rifkin's theory of failed states Reason - Find Articles
		Rifkin's point isn't that Europe is becoming a new America, it's that America's way of life has got to go.
		Rifkin's real beef is with individualism, and with "the European Enlightenment idea that equates private property with freedom." (He's using "Enlightenment" as a pejorative.) Even if it didn't spoil the environment and burn up resources, he tells us, the American lifestyle would be headed for a fall because the dreamers aren't being fulfilled.
		Rifkin throws in some poverty figures to add thunder to the gloom, but they appear next to data on how Americans are getting fatter and buying bigger houses.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1568/is_8_36/ai_n9522589 (710 words)

	Book Jeremy Rifkin Speaker Keynote Speaking Engagement, Corporate Event - Your Booking Agent for Jeremy Rifkin
		Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, is the author of 16 books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment.
		Rifkin's monthly column on global issues appears in many of the world's leading newspapers and magazines, including the Los Angeles Times in the U.S., The Guardian in the U.K., Frankfurter Allgemeine in Germany, Espresso in Italy, El Pais in Spain, and Le Monde in France.
		Rifkin is the founder and president of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, D.C. To book Jeremy Rifkin or to get information about booking Jeremy Rifkin for your event, wedding or meeting please submit this form:
	www.grabow.biz /Speakers/JeremyRifkin.htm (622 words)

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