In a nutshell, Rifkin argues that as the ability to tap, generate and distribute power shifts from the exclusive province of governments and lease-holding corporations toward individual actors and communities armed increasingly with solar panels and wind turbines and smart grids, so too will bedrock relationships between producer and consumer, the government and the governed, be forever changed.
To do this, I've established the 5 Rs as my bedrock: respect, relationships, resilience, responsibilities and rights.
This threatened the "control principle" that is the bedrock of the relationship between intelligence agencies.
The discovery has left Jenny feeling that he deceived her about the bedrock of any relationship – his identity.
Speaking at his Senate confirmation hearing this week, Gen. Colin L. Powell, Mr. Bush's choice for secretary of state, stressed that NATO "is the bedrock of our relationship with Europe".
As if to respond to that concern but not willing to concede the apparent contradiction that withdrawing troops would affect NATO, General Powell said in his testimony that NATO was the "bedrock of our relationship with Europe".
There are affectionate references to my parents in my diary too – revealing the bedrock of the relationship, which was to come good in the end – but much of the time, I didn't endear myself to them and things were fraught.
Even now, the simple transaction of buying a newspaper creates the bedrock of a relationship between reader and writer — a fistful of small change in return for a trove of articles, crosswords, analysis, columns, news, features, photographs, sport, culture, even the funnies.
"The bedrock of any relationship is to communicate, and Deb and I have always done that, discussing whatever's going on, good or bad". .
