The Center for Regenerative Design and Collaboration, a Costa Rica venture, has figured out a way to grind up junk plastic and mix it with concrete to make bricks, cinder blocks, and similar building materials. The waste plastic doesn’t have to be sorted by type. The conglomeration is mixed with minerals to create a plastic-limestone...
Author: Trends Journal (Julian Dzienio)
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ELECTRIC POWER TO THE PEOPLE
In October, New Hampshire became the latest state to pass a law allowing counties and towns to generate and distribute electricity, following in the steps of Washington, Vermont, and California, among others. This growing “community power” movement pools several motivations. For some, grid power from a centralized utility is too expensive, with rates that increase...
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MICROPARTICLES FIGHT MALNUTRITION
From vitamin B12 in your cereal to iodine in table salt, adding nutrients to food is an old idea. But it doesn’t always work. Long storage, changes in humidity and temperature, and other variables can slash the additives’ potency. That’s a special problem when transporting food to places where famine has taken hold, often in...
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VENEZUELA: GUAIDÓ BLOCKED, GUAIDÓ BACK
On 5 January, Juan Guaidó, the opposition leader who proclaimed himself the rightful President of Venezuela last January, despite an internationally observed electoral victory by President Nicolas Maduro, was denied entrance to parliament by government security forces. A video was released of Guaidó climbing a fence outside the parliament building and being restrained by security...
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LETTER TO SUBSCRIBERS FROM GERALD CELENTE
Dear Subscriber, In my 40 years of trend forecasting, I have never been more concerned about today’s current events forming future trends. This Trends Journal Special Report details the U.S./Iranian crisis, which I have been writing and warning about for several years. Should the current trend lines continue, I forecast we are on the path to WWIII....
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TRUMP PLAYS THE WILD CARD: FIRES FIRST SHOT OF WWIII
Last Thursday, Iran’s top military commander, Major General Qassim Soleimani, was killed by a U.S. Reaper drone strike outside the Baghdad International airport. Soleimani had just arrived on a commercial flight to attend the funerals of Iraqi soldiers killed a few days earlier in American air strikes, and he was also scheduled to meet with...