“Jeremy Rifkin’s The Green New Deal presents the most comprehensive and compelling narrative to transition the U.S. energy, telecommunications, and transportation sectors into a smart Third Industrial Revolution. While our national leaders have been unable to find common ground, Rifkin provides a bipartisan means to accelerate our nation’s path toward decarbonization.”
—Robert Wilhite, Managing Director, Navigant Consulting (Navigant Global Energy is the largest energy and sustainability consulting team in the industry)
“The United States is falling behind the European Union and now China in the race to prepare our economies for the low-carbon future. Rifkin’s new book gives the US the crucial narrative it needs to confront the ‘carbon bubble’ of stranded assets increasingly threatening the stability of the global financial system. And his advice is not just for the US. The 9,200 cities that are part of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy have a lot to learn from Rifkin’s work with pioneer smart cities and regions in Europe.”
—Maroš Šefčovič, Vice President of the European Commission and Co-Chair of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy
“Rifkin is bold, prescient, and revolutionary. The urgent global public health and humanitarian impacts of Climate Change are well upon us and accelerating. Rifkin charts a tough and achievable path forward—distributed, open source, glocal and green—and brings us to the threshold of a New Beginning.”
—James Orbinski, MD, former International President of Doctors Without Borders
“The Green New Deal is impressive in its ability to connect the dots of environmental, political, social, and geographical issues that define our sustainable future. Rifkin has laid out a vast Green New Deal plan that is radical and defensible for a historic twenty-year retrofit of the nation’s millions of buildings to reduce global warming emissions, taking us into a green century.”
—Gordon Gill, Principal, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (ranked the number one architecture firm in the United States of America by Architect magazine)
“In The Green New Deal, Jeremy Rifkin presents a survival imperative for the millions without work and for a planet that needs healing. In this timely book, he defines the urgent steps that will need to be taken to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy and reclaim public infrastructure.”
—Dr. Vandana Shiva, feminist, ecologist, and recipient of the Right Livelihood Award