The droplets could be used as test tubes to carry out biological assays and chemical processes faster and cheaper than now. The droplets can be made so small that millions could circulate on a chip and the processes could be operated at a size to suit commercial manufacturing — allowing minute control over materials, their combinations, and the processes that...
Fossil-fuel subsidies: $10 million a minute?
Global public subsidies to the fossil-fuel industry total $5.3 trillion a year, according to a May report from the International Monetary Fund. That’s $10 million a minute to feed our oil, gas and coal habit. The report, “How Large Are Global Energy Subsidies?”, calculates not only the cost in tax breaks and other direct public subsidies to fuel producers. It...
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Two trend lines coincide in this report: stagnating economies and the continuously falling cost of renewable energy. Populations, even in the developed world, are increasingly restless as income growth stalls while politicians continue lavishing favors on already-rich industries. Rising nationalist and populist movements, together with the accelerating movement among institutions to divest fossil-fuel investments, leaves the future of public subsidies...
The ‘unconference’ trend takes root
The 2015 Sundance Film Festival, a cornerstone event for young creators, brought $83 million to host Park City, Utah. That’s down $3 million from 2014. A University of Utah study claims this is because millennial visitors stayed in fewer hotel rooms and in more houses, sharing space with others. The millennial traveler wants flexibility and opportunity to personally connect when...
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An idea like “The Creators Unconference” signals that at least one hotel company understands the millennial generation. Other boutique hotel chains will follow, hosting their own conferences, concerts and millennial-focused events. Meanwhile, Airbnb’s role as disruptor will continue to harm the larger hotel chains, unless government-mandated regulation strikes the online service. Regardless, look for millennials to go where prices are...
America’s most historic intersection
The four stone structures that stand at the corners of Crown and John streets, at the heart of Kingston’s Stockade National Historic District, constitute the only intersection in the United States with pre-revolutionary stone buildings on all four corners. If those stones could speak, they could tell countless tales of military conquest, revolutionary fervor and most of all, the costs...
Where the founding fathers walked…
They were men on the run. They knew that if they were captured they’d be hung. But the dream of an independent American republic, articulated only the year before in the Declaration of Independence, was as strong as it was compelling. In the wake of the declaration, the 13 American colonies were without a single government institution. When New York’s...
All you need to know about the rally
What is Occupy Peace? Occupy Peace is unlike any other peace initiative. Formally launching at a rally at noon on September 20, 2015, at the corners of John and Crown Street in historic Kingston, NY, this peace movement is designed to create a platform to hold elected officials accountable for senselessly prompting war. It will drive a nationwide initiative to...
The rally to birth a movement
At noon on Sept. 20, 2015, Gerald Celente and the Trends Research Institute will launch Occupy Peace, a movement designed to reinstate the core values that gave birth to this nation and provide the tools for advancing peace and restoring prosperity. The Occupy Peace rally will take place at the oldest intersection in the United States. At the corners of...