The energy revolution - VPRO documentary - 2012
220Original Title: Power to the people
There is a big revolution going on in 'the small'. We were readers and became bloggers, we now transform from consumer to producer. From energy to insurance, everything is small-scale and locally produced. In Backlight is attention for the revolutionary answer to the world of multinationals.
After the industrial and the digital revolution we are at the beginning of a new one: the energy revolution. More and more people put solar panels on the roof of their house or buy a windmill together to become less dependent on major energy suppliers. We make our own power and our neighborhood is an energy company. The excessive energy is sold and the whole neighborhood profits, as is already happening on the Danish island of Samsø. American economist Jeremy Rifkin, a longstanding advocate of sustainability, predicts that citizen capitalism will change our world within two years. The motto: do it yourself, do it together.
Originally broadcasted by VPRO in 2012.
© VPRO Backlight October 2012
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Credits:
Director: Sabine Lubbe Bakker
Research: William de Bruijn
Producer: Marie Schutgens
Commissioning Editors: Henneke Hagen en Frank Wiering
English, French and Spanish subtitles: Ericsson.
French and Spanish subtitles are co-funded by European Union.