By Making It on 14 February, 2012
Jeremy Rifkin explains how the five pillars of a third energy-communications revolution will create the foundations for the next great wave of economic growth
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged business, Christiana Figueres, climate change, communication/energy nexus, consumers, debt, different energy system, economic competitiveness, electric plug-in and fuel cell vehicles, energy internet, European Commission, European Parliament, European Union, fossil fuel energies, Foundation on Economic Trends, government, Green Industry initiative, hunger and starvation, incentivize transformation, industrial civilization, Industrial Development Organization, infrastructure, issue 9, Jeremy Rifkin, ldc, least developed countries, living standards, Making It magazine, micro-power plants, mobile phone and ict sector, national policies, new economic narrative, new energy systems, oil, our low-carbon future, poverty, renewable energy technologies, smart and just grids, Sustainable Energy for All, sustainable industrial development, technology, third industrial revolution, UN, UNFCCC, UNIDO, United Nations, universal access to modern energy services
By Making It on 4 January, 2012
Imagine a future where the power of green technology drives a new economic revolution, and where everyone, all over the world, has access to clean, safe, and affordable energy services. Does this sound far-fetched? Not according to our contributors. Jeremy Rifkin, whose latest book, The Third Industrial Revolution, is making a big impact, sees developments [...]
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By Making It on 10 May, 2011
Fátima Fialho, Cape Verde’s Minister of Tourism, Industry and Energy, on how her country graduated from the list of LDCs, and how it plans to develop as a middle-income country
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged African Development Bank Group, African development progress, article, beach hotels, Benito Mussolini, botswana, business environment, Cape Verde, commerce, conditions, deficit, develop, Donald Kaberuka, Economic Development, employment, enterprise, entrepreneurship, Fátima Fialho, FDI, feature, fisheries, foreign investment, GDP, global crisis, government policy, government services, Industrial Development, Industry and Energy, international trade, issue 5, ldc, least developed countries, light manufacturing industries, Making It, middle-income country, Minister of Tourism, money, ODA, official development assistance, oil, organization, poverty, private sector, privatization, remittances, resource, revenue, Sal, services sector, small population, trade, transport, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, World Trade Organization, WTO
By Making It on 23 February, 2011
Simon Maxwell on how to avoid the downsides of climate change – and how to capture the possible upsides too!
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By Making It on 13 January, 2011
India’s Minister of New and Renewable Energy pushes to transform the promise of boundless and clean energy into reality
Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged aero-generators, biogas plants, biomass gasifiers, carbon intensive, China, clean, clean energy, coal, community, costs, development, domestic investors, economic growth, energy, energy sources, environment, Farooq Abdullah, finance, foreign investors, fossil fuel, germany, inclusive growth, India, Indian Minister of New and Renewable Energy, innovation, irrigation, Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, JNNSM, lighting, oil, policy, power generation capacity, regulation, renewable, research and development, solar, solar cookers, Spain, supply, sustainable, taxes, technology, USA, wind energy
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