The Third Industrial Revolution

Started reading this book by Jeremy Rifkin which describes the progressive model being implemented by the EU and lead by Germany.  Its all about how the internet is causing power to be lateral, not top down, but distributed and collaborative, and how that will solve our energy problems and the economy on a global scale.  What are the biggest users of current energy?  1) buildings and homes, 2) beef production and animal husbandry practices, and 3) transportation.  This book makes it easy to figure out the direction our government should be taking and how one person can contribute to getting ourselves off of petroleum and leaving nuclear behind - its already a thing of the past.  The EU is so far beyond where the US is, we are still fighting over whether or not to invest/spend money to build infrastructure that supports the old energy - roads and bridges.  When we should be working on green buildings and homes, eating local, consuming less meat unless its raised locally, and then investing in electric plug in cars.  This is all about changing the central control of energy to a new system of using energy that's everywhere - wind, water and sun.  And the stuff about hydrogen?  Holy crap - this is great stuff.