Dry California Whine
California is suffering from another year of drought, which appears to be getting worse. It’s affecting consumers, agriculture, and industry.
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Ecology
Wizards, Prophets, and Other Wall Street Fairy Tales
Is your email overflowing with urgent messages from “get-rich-quick wizards” or “prophets of doom”? It’s amazing how many otherwise-smart people
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Diamond Becomes the New Material of Choice
For centuries, diamonds have been valued for ornamentation, as well as use in manufacturing applications where their hardness enables them
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It’s a Big Fracking Deal
Because of the enormous transformational implications built into the economics of the North American Energy Revolution, its promoters and opponents
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Linking Weather Events and Climate Change
Twenty years ago, the Trends editors predicted that the economic case for the “climate change crisis” and related solutions championed
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The Green Implosion
Two of the biggest stories of the current decade are actually flip sides of the same story. On side one
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Turning Environmental Trash Into Treasure
In rough times like we’ve experienced since 2000, and especially since 2008, many want to say, “The system is not
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