Jeremy Rifkin

Utne Reader

Jeremy Rifkin makes technofiles and beaureaucrats extremely uncomfortable. The President and founder of the Foundation on Economic Trends, he has been influential in shaping public policy on a variety of environmental and technology issues, testifying before congressional committees as well as in litigation to counter irresponsible government policy. The author of Entropy, Algeny, Time Wars, Biosphere Politics and Voting Green (co-authored with fellow activist and wife, Carol Grunewald Rifkin) his social commentary and activism have helped catapult environmental issues into the public domain.