Trillions magazine is a unique publication that focuses on what matters most and provides real-world and useful information for personal and business success in a time of rapid change and growing challenges. Trillions is published monthly by the North America Procurement Council (NAPC).

Arkansas Moves to Ban Monsanto's Dicamba Herbicide

June 26, 2017

Monsanto friendly Arkansas has taken the bold move of trying to ban the extremely destructive herbicide dicamba.

Housing Starts Decline for Third Month in a Row

June 19, 2017

The level of new home construction declined for the third straight month.

Widespread Snowmelt in West Antarctica

June 17, 2017

An area of West Antarctica more than twice the size of California partially melted in 2016, an international group of researchers has determined.

Time to Boycott Whole Foods & Form a Cooperative Grocery?

June 17, 2017

Whole Foods is being purchased by Amazon. Time for a better alternative.

EPA Workers Call Out Pruitt on Dismantling of Vital Agency

June 17, 2017

EPA employees are not going quietly into the night as the head of their agency supports the destruction of his own agency.

Contractor or Employee Gets Murkier Under Trump

June 9, 2017

The IRS and U.S. Dept of Labor have long had stringent but fuzzy requirements for when a worker can be classified as a contractor and those requirements have just been pushed back, maybe.

Trump Pushes Destructive Coal Mining in Roadless Forest in Colorado

June 9, 2017

Trump is keeping his promise to destroy America by approving another filthy, unwanted coal mine on public land, against the public's wishes.

U.S. Justice Dept. Considers Tracking CyberCrime - Comments Needed

June 8, 2017

Despite the fact that cybercrime already results in losses in the trillions of dollars, the U.S. Justice Dept. Bureau of Justice Statistics if just now considering tracking it.

Trump's Budget: A Plan to Reduce Waste or Loot and Destroy America?

June 7, 2017

Donald Trump recently released his proposed budget entitled "A New Foundation for American Greatness - President's Budget FY 2018".

War: America's Growth Industry

June 7, 2017

War has long been big business for the United States and is now the country's largest industry by far. The U.S. is also the world's largest arms exporter.

Abusive Leaders May Suffer From Their Actions

June 7, 2017

We all know that power can corrupt, making people act in ways that harm others. But new research from the University of Florida shows that when some of the powerful misbehave, some of them hurt themselves, too.

U.S. Household Debt Worse Than in 2008

June 7, 2017

According to a survey report by the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, household debt in the U.S. has risen to a level higher than the worst peak of the financial crisis in 2008.

Protecting the World's Seeds While Global Temperatures Soar

June 7, 2017

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault was designed to protect against almost anything either Mother Nature or human beings could throw at it. In May 2017, however, its makers found out the hard way that there was one big thing they had underestimated: climate change.

More Bad Cops

June 7, 2017

A percentage of America's law enforcement personnel continue to engage in criminal activity. Following are just a few of the more recent ones that got caught.

Inspector General Investigating Monsanto's Corruption of a Top EPA Official

June 7, 2017

The investigation is not likely to get very far under Trump's rule but at least the corruption is being recognized at the federal level.

House Approves Bill to Eliminate Clean Water Act Pesticide Protections

June 6, 2017

The corporate war on America continues as the corrupt U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation recently that would eliminate critical Clean Water Act safeguards, allowing more toxic pesticides to be sprayed directly into streams, lakes, rivers and drinking water supplies.

Corrupt U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Puts Us All at Risk

June 6, 2017

After the disaster at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, American nuclear plants were required to undergo a review to see if something similar could happen in the U.S. What they found and what did not happen after should frighten everyone.

U.S. Navy Admiral Given 18 months in Massive Navy Bribery and Fraud Case

June 6, 2017

U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Robert Gilbeau was sentenced recently to only 18 months in prison for lying to investigators to conceal his 20-year partnership with Leonard Glenn Francis (Fat Leonard), the owner of Singapore-based Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA), a foreign defense contractor at the center of a major bribery and fraud scandal.

Vermont DMV Keeps Breaking the Law With Illegal Facial Recognition Program

June 6, 2017

Vermont is one of the few states that have made it illegal for government agencies to use biometric identifiers (facial recognition technology). Too bad they don't enforce it on themselves.

Brazil Drives New School Meals Programs

June 6, 2017

While the United States goes backwards on school meal programs and many kids are getting increasingly lower quality school lunches and Trump is trying to end all funding for school meals programs abroad, Brazil is showing how school meals should be done and it's not just the kids who benefit.