Rifkin's TIR, pillar 1/5: shifting to renewables

Remember my first article on Jeremy Rifkin? I was announcing the follow ups and here is the first: details about the third industrial revolution's first pillar, shifting from fossil fuels and nuclear energy to renewable sources of energy.

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Humanitarian aid's efficiency

This week I keep up the momentum on humanitarian aid, but today I question the relevance and efficiency of the humanitarian aid model. Indeed, humanitarian action is being planned in international, political environments and it seems no developped country can oppose to contributing to this system, for obvious reasons. But as these actions are ultimately determined by political issues, how can we be sure they are efficient at meeting their objectives?

To know more about it, please follow this link to the article on my blog Business with impact. Hope you'll enjoy the reading!

Mobiles as tools for the good

Today's article is about how our mobile phones can support doing the good in the world, be it in the context of humanitarian aid or plain economic development. Digital humanitarianism has been introduced to me a few months ago by Paul Conneally's TED talk. I've kept it in mind since then and finally am able to share it on my turn.

Here is the video. To read my article, please follow this link to my blog Grids at work.

Rifkin's Third Industrial Revolution

Today, I'd like to share one of my last readings. In his book "The third industrial revolution: how lateral power is transforming energy, the economy, and the world", Jeremy Rifkin offers us his vision on the way renewable energies on the one hand, and the internet on the other hand may/will radically transform the world as we know it in the next 50 years.

 

This article focuses on Jeremy Rifkin and the global theory he develops in the book. The five pillars he has identified for the "TIR" will be the subject of five coming articles.

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Petites définitions

Pour bien démarrer l'année sur Business with impact, je reviens aux sources et reprends les définitions du social business et de l'économie sociale et solidaire. Bonne lecture !

Car sharing : having access to rather than owning a car

If you liked my post about Autolib' last week, I bet you're going to like this one too!

Today, I focus on car sharing, a new transportation usage that is born from applying collaborative thinking to a traditionally private good.

Source : http://www.green-and-energy.com/blog/carsharing-the-situation-in-germany/

Here is the article, published on my blog "Grids at work".

Autolib', pour démarrer 2013 sur les chapeaux de roue

Meilleurs voeux pour 2013 !

Pour bien commencer l'année, je vous propose un article sur Autolib', dont les bluecars n'auront pas manqué d'interpeller les parisiens en 2012 et ne manqueront pas d'intéresser les autres. Le service proposé est en effet innovateur : alliant écologie et partage, deux nouvelles façons de penser qui s'ancrent de plus en plus dans les mentalités de demain.

Source : http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2012/01/02/01016-20120102ARTFIG00265-autolib-deja-victime-de-pannes-et-de-vandalisme.php

Bonne lecture !