Bradford Beckerman was a 22-year-old rising business star when a near-fatal accident left him with Traumatic Brain Injury, reliant on 17 drugs to keep him from seizing and to manage debilitating pain. Fueled with a desire to break his dependency on pharmaceuticals, Bradford began a successful journey to find natural methods of healing and wellness...
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Reefer Money Madness
It is as big as the end of Prohibition in 1933. If the marijuana-legalization movement continues on its current track, and the Trends Research Institute forecasts that it will, pot’s future is indeed bright. It had a watershed performance at America’s ballot boxes in November. Today, recreational or medical marijuana use is legal in 28...
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Trendpost
Trends are born, they grow, mature, reach old age and die. The marijuana-legalization trend is only in its infancy. Just as the sale of alcohol began in fits and starts across different states, legal pot’s surge will not be a straight line. It, too, will meet curves in the road, but its trajectory ultimately calls...
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Welcome to The Garden of Epicurus
With stress levels and angry debate escalating all around us, where can we find a place for engaging conversation, sensual aesthetics and the keys to a more peaceful mindset? Turns out the philosophical insights taught by ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus at his personal home and garden are influencing important trends here in the 21st century....
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10 trends defining 2017
For nearly 40 years, forecaster Gerald Celente and his Trends Research Institute have established and sustained a remarkable track record accurately forecasting powerful, game-changing trends in economics, geopolitics, health, education, technology, aging, pop culture and more. Each year, the institute publishes a list of the top trends for year ahead. The Top Trends of 2017...
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Mom and Pop comeback
There’s a pall over the mall. The decline of shopping malls is a trend we forecast in 1997 when we warned that in the coming decades the mall culture would degenerate, and dying Main Street would be reborn. Now is the time for innovative OnTrendpreneurs™ to seize widening market gaps left by the decline of malls....
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Trend Forecast
The big-chains-abandoning-malls trend continues in 2017 as Macy’s, J.C. Penney, Sears – nine retailers overall – close more than 1,000 stores. As more malls lose anchors and their appeal, get ready for the big move to small downtowns, fueled by Millennial Fever. Priced out of big-city life, looking to escape crowds, noise and pollution for...
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A new energy source for a fraction of the cost?
For 25 years, Randell Mills has been quietly preparing to end the Fossil Fuel Age. Now he’s ready. On Oct. 26, 2016, he gathered his team of scientists, engineers and manufacturing partners at his lab in a suburban smear of industrial and office buildings outside of Princeton, New Jersey. They revealed the latest version of...
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Trend Forecast
Even if the SunCell technology and business plan work, ExxonMobil won’t be closing up shop any time soon. It likely will take decades to dismantle the fossil-fuel economy. Also, oil and coal industries’ lobbyists and hired politicians will scramble to find legal and regulatory ways to protect their patrons’ interests. Still, Mills’ SunCell technology has...
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Unsafe water a global crisis
Unsafe water. Poisoned water. Scarce resources for water worldwide in an era of rising temperatures, prolonged droughts and extreme weather. Exploding populations that demand water far exceeding dwindling supply.Water-delivery systems around the globe rotting away, having outlived their infrastructures by decades. And, drying up and rotting away just as fast, public funding to ensure safe,...