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A diverse range of breakthrough technologies, including “artificial leaves” that turn CO2 into fuel, and a technique that harvests water from air, could soon be playing a role in tackling the world’s most pressing challenges, according to a list published today by the World Economic Forum. The technologies were selected by the World Economic Forum’s Expert […]
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June 2017 Trend Events
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MONEY IS NOT THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL “We live in a society that loves money, loves having money and glorifies those with money. Many people have made money their priority, and this is the problem. I have said this before and I will say it again: Money is a tool or resource for your […]
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2017-February-TrendEvents Newsletter
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2016 FALL TRENDEVENTS – Final
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MORTON COUNTY — Ceremony, aromatic sage and drumming song welcomed the eight tribes of Washington State into the encampment of Native Americans supporting the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Tribes with new and unusual names — Yakama Nation, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, Lummi Nation, Puyallup Tribe, Nisqually Indian Tribe, The […]
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This issue of Trend Events features information about our upcoming June event, introduces the Technocracy interns, Solar Innovation, Technocracy concept and organization, and closes with Technocracy Then and Now. 2016-06-10 TrendEvents
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This issue of TrendEvents covers both the old and new of Technocracy, with news about our winter Think Tank, a memorial for Paul Cordesmeyer, and information about the Technocracy concept and organization. Click on the link below! TrendEvents_2016_01_Winter
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This issue of TrendEvents features news about economics, water, smart homes and space, followed by information about the Technocracy concept and organization. I am pleased to announce that we have some new blood—two articles by volunteer freelance writers Justin Lazzara and Joshua Moore. See the issue here: TrendEvents_2015_09_Autumn
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Most humans live near oceans. Yet even in coastal communities, there are often severe water shortages. Hence, desalinization of seawater into fresh water is the “holy grail” of unlimited water supply. Yet, present desalination processes require tremendous amounts of energy, making such processes very expensive. Nanotechnology has been proposed many times as the means to […]
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(Source: Bloomberg, 4 Nov. 2015) Saudi Arabia “once grew so much of the grain that its exports could feed Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Yemen. The circular wheat farms, half a mile across with a central sprinkler system, spread across the desert in the 1980s and 1990s, visible … as green spots amid a […]
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When people complain about ineffective government they often use the word “change”. What they most often mean by this is that they want to “fix” the current system so that it works better than what they now see but still looks pretty much the same. But what do they think when the closer and more […]
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Review by Ron Miller “There is a real trend towards something called variously urban agriculture, indoor farming or vertical farming,” says Cary Mitchell, a horticulturist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. The original idea was for skyscrapers filled with plants but was never realistic. Skyscrapers don’t come cheap. In New York City, a company […]
