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Live differently–it’s your choice!
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The road ahead is uncertain, not smooth or straight, and has limited visibility.
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Welcome to Stay Informed, CACOR's weekly newsletter. It contains all the latest updates to the CACOR Website. Please share our Stay Informed link on your personal networks. That's also the place to catch up on previous newsletters if you missed them.
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Archived Articles Revisited:
This is your weekly personal list of three random articles extracted from our website archives. These links are unique to you and are more than one year old. The intention is to deliver a sense of what was considered a priority on that date compared with today's latest articles and presentations. You are encouraged to share these links with your social media and other networks.
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Speaker: Lalith Gunaratne Topic: Renewable Energy Adventures: Solar and Small Hydro Stories that bind Canada and Sri Lanka Time: Apr 3, 2024 Summary: The presentation will highlight a lifetime of renewable energy adventures with solar and small hydro that began with a Canadian-Sri Lankan collaboration in 1985 - continuing to date. The entrepreneurship story is captured in this chapter of …
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You are invited to a scheduled CACOR Zoom meeting. Speaker: Jamie Kneen Topic: The Perpetual Pollution Machine: Acid Mine Drainage and Mine Waste Time: Apr 10, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89368464625?pwd=NDVpdC9wM3hjUXkyMkl3M0ZRdzVIQT09 Meeting ID: 893 6846 4625 Passcode: 601485 Abstract: We use, and see around us, a huge bounty of mined metals, from the mundane …
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15 Biggest Environmental Problems of 2024 CRISIS - VIABILITY OF LIFE ON EARTH BY DEENA ROBINSONGLOBAL COMMONSJAN 3RD 202417 MINS EARTH.ORG IS POWERED BY OVER 150 CONTRIBUTING WRITERS PHOTOGRAPH BY ROY MANGERSNESWhile the climate crisis has many factors that play a role in the exacerbation of the environment, some warrant more attention than others. Here are some of the biggest environmental problems of …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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Songwriters: Alex Zivojinovich / Gary Lee Weinrib / Neil Elwood Peart Neil Peart Rush was a Canadian rock band, formed in the late 1960s in Toronto. The last and longest members of the group were Geddy Lee, the singer, who also played the bass guitar and synthesizers, Alex Lifeson, who played the guitar, and Neil Peart, who played the drums. …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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August 21, 2023 12:01AM EDT "Systematic Abuses of Ethiopians May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity Saudi border guards have killed at least hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers who tried to cross the Yemen-Saudi border between March 2022 and June 2023. Saudi officials are killing hundreds of women and children out of view of the rest of the world …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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By Colin McKerracher A Closer Look at Lifecycle Emissions My BloombergNEF colleague Corey Cantor just published a detailed report on the lifecycle emissions of electric vehicles, looking at everything from average battery pack sizes by region, battery manufacturing emissions, current and projected electricity-generation emissions, day- and night-time charging trends, and more. Corey comes to the same conclusion that virtually all other independent studies have: EVs …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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Ian Angus discusses how viruses evolve, reproduce, and jump between species, potentially causing pandemics. He highlights their impact on ecosystems, genetics, and human health.
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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How can I read the News without Cracking Up? How can I see the Opportunities Instead of the Obstacles? How can I keep my mouth shut when I want to say something “realistic” but which is actually just negative? How can really enjoy life inn Spite of the Evidence that life as we know it is probably doomed? As you …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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1996 Series 1 Number 20 Page 1 Don Dainty (retired mining researcher at CANMET) explained that the Baha'i faith could provide a model for global governance. It would involve universal suffrage, a global governing body, consultation, justice, human rights, respect, courtesy, and more. Link to | Baha'i Perspective on Global Governance.
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers
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Key indicators of how humans are changing the Earth: Sea level, species, carbon dioxide, sea ice, population, daily temperature extremes, annual climate change performance by country, air pollution, temperature records, climate change indicators, top ten emitters, historic emissions, electric vehicles.
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(3) China's One Ocean Problem - YouTube China’s rise as a global superpower hinges on its ability to project naval power. But its geography presents a challenge. Can China break free of the island chains in the Pacific and secure routes to the Indian Ocean? Or will regional rivals continue to thwart its maritime ambitions?
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Tesla had a disappointing quarter with its first EV sales decline in almost four years, but while inventory and pricing trends are not currently in Tesla’s favor, it does appear to have at least one sustainable advantage: its fast-charging network. Competitors may be starting to erode Tesla’s dominance in EVs, but its fast-charging advantage is holding firm. The pioneering automaker has a larger fast-charging network in the U.S. than all of …
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If chocolate is your pleasure, you've undoubtedly noticed it costs more these days to get your fill. You can thank the scarcity of cocoa for that. The majority of it grows in West Africa, where drought and disease have severely reduced crop yields. As a result, the cost of cocoa has tripled in the last year, hitting $10,000 US a …
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In Florida, the effects of climate change are hard to ignore, no matter your politics. It’s the hottest state — Miami spent a record 46 days above a heat index of 100 degrees last summer — and many homes and businesses are clustered along beachfront areas threatened by rising seas and hurricanes. The Republican-led legislature has responded with more than $640 million for resilience projects to adapt to …
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Standing on top of a massive boulder, a young forest firefighter surveys the damage wrought by Quebec's worst wildfire season in recent history. Nothing but thinned-out, charred trees and a stark sky surround him. The black-and-white photograph, captured last summer by Charles-Frédérick Ouellet and titled A Day in the Life of a Quebec Fire Crew has just won the North and Central American Single Photograph …
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22 March 2024 FREDERICTON (GNB) – New Brunswick farmers have access to new resources to help them conserve and enhance the resiliency of their land. The Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program encourages farmers to accelerate the adoption of land use and management practices. The program provides financial support to agricultural producers for the maintenance and provision of healthy soils and water …
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The transition to clean energy may be getting an unexpected assist from a popular landscaping tool. As detailed by Tech Briefs, engineers at Sandia National Laboratories partnered with CSolPower LLC to develop a prototype that stores thermal heat with gravel. After being heated to 932 degrees Fahrenheit, the gravel was able to maintain high temperatures for 20 hours. "The rocks have so much …
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The transition to clean energy may be getting an unexpected assist from a popular landscaping tool. As detailed by Tech Briefs, engineers at Sandia National Laboratories partnered with CSolPower LLC to develop a prototype that stores thermal heat with gravel. After being heated to 932 degrees Fahrenheit, the gravel was able to maintain high temperatures for 20 hours. "The rocks …
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Proactive and wholistic planning to modernize transmission, distribution, and the way we use electricity can set us down a path of affordable and reliable economy-wide decarbonization. April 2, 2024 By Liza Martin The power sector is changing more rapidly than ever before. At this critical moment in the energy transition, new data centers, manufacturing, and electric vehicle fleets are asking to …
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MENIFEE, California — For a decade, twin smokestacks loomed against the bright blue skies of Menifee, in Southern California’s Inland Empire. But the old gas combustion plant came down, and on the flat industrial site it left behind an army of batteries is now being assembled. When it comes online this summer, developer Calpine’s Nova power bank will store more electricity …
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