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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. The latest website updates, announcements and upcoming events. 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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The latest 'CACOR LIVE' Schedule is HERE.
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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: Dr. Amir Hakami Topic: The Buy-one-get-one-free of Climate Policy. Time: May 15, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Climate change and air pollution share many common drivers and sources. However, policies to address each are often developed independently and without coordination. Further, broad public support for aggressive decarbonization measures has been elusive in Canada, and long-term climate …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Julie Johnston Topic: Greening the Heart of Education. Time: May 22, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83911403834?pwd=Qkx5UkR1djRoTlJnNlJZdnVLVnl2QT09 Meeting ID: 839 1140 3834 Passcode: 391646 Summary: Because our global economy hasn’t chosen sustainable (or, as Dennis Meadows now calls it, survivable) development, we have continued developing unsustainably. By extension, …
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May 14, 2024 "This event was an introduction to our new Resilience+ Deep Dives, a series of events and curated materials that can help anyone better understand important aspects of the climate crisis. Resilience+ is a new area of resilience.org where you can dive deeper into selected sustainability topics and access extras like exclusive live discussions. We’ll be rolling out …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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"When you think about health, your mind probably goes to things like doctor’s visits, medications, or vaccines. You probably think of preventative health measures like eating well and exercising. You’ll likely consider COVID, allergies, viruses, bacteria, injury, or maybe even bug bites as the main daily threats your body could face. For most of us, today’s greatest threat to human …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes. Fred Rogers, television host, songwriter, and author (1928-2003)
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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Published: April 30, 2024 8:22am EDT "The United Nations’ latest report on hunger makes for grim reading. On April 24, 2024, the international body released its annual Global Report on Food Crises, showing that 281.6 million people faced acute hunger in 2023. "And indications for 2024 suggest worse may be to come. In March, the United Nations’ highest technical body …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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Salome Janelidze from GNERC discusses the importance of zero-emission renewable energy, with a focus on virtual power plants as a key solution in the fight against climate change.
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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A study found that most Americans believe in human-caused global warming but have knowledge gaps. People are interested in learning how to limit global warming and its impacts, with solutions being the most popular topic.
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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1998 Series 1 Number 26 Page 9 Human Values and Capitalism. This was a reprint (with permission) of an article by Dr. Henryk Skolimowski in the journal World Affairs: The Journal of International Issues (Vol. 1, No. 4, 1997). "As both capitalism and communism have failed, we have to seek new paths beyond selfishness and aggression. We have to …
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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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May 17, 2024 Resilience for a Sustainable Society With the recent advancements in Internet of Things (IoT) devices, various elements such as vehicles, robots, power sources, and distribution centers are interconnected to form a large network system that encompasses society, cities, and facilities. Examples include robot networks operating in factories and cities, power networks supporting local energy needs, and logistics …
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With climate change continuing its relentless march, the world faces not only rising temperatures and extreme weather but also an insidious threat to our homes: invasive termites, and the bill could be steep--invasive termites currently cost over US $40 billion annually. In a new study published in Neobiota, Ph.D. student Edouard Duquesne and Professor Denis Fournier from the Evolutionary Biology & Ecology lab …
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– By Geoff Strong and Richard van der Jagt – Time is short for gaining control over our climate before it hits a tipping point, after which we lose the opportunity to turn things around. While our emphasis is the destructive impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on our warming climate, fossil fuels also release toxic air pollutants (such as carbon …
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Scientist raises concerns after climate models fail to explain record heat last year: 'We need answers for why 2023 turned out to be the warmest year.' In 2023, the global average temperature was 58.96 degrees F, about a third of a degree warmer than the previous hottest year. The world faced its hottest year on record in 2023. Alarmingly, one …
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Denmark has legislation to limit how much carbon can be emitted from buildings. The country is planning to align that legislation with the Paris Agreement. They'll need to reduce emissions by 96%. They have 3 to 7 years to do it. If only all countries would plan for us staying within the planetary boundaries! Link to | Danish Construction Industry …
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NOAA released its April 2024 climate data and it's again the hottest for the month in the database. May will be another record (the 12th straight record month). Global Land and Ocean Average Temperature Anomalies (1901-2000 mean) Note that the anomaly from the reference point at the end of the 19th century is about 1.6 ⁰C, not 1.3 ⁰C. Link …
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Jo-Anne McArthur, acclaimed animal photojournalist and founder and president of We Animals Media, an organization whose photographers document the lives of unseen and ignored animals caught within human systems of exploitation and oppression. Highlights of this episode include: photography as a tool, to catalyze social change and to raise awareness about animal exploitation. The experiences of animals who are caught …
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On the warm spring night of April 28, Houston had a problem. Denizens of the most populous region in Texas were cranking up air conditioning to beat the early burst of summery heat. Texas’ nation-leading solar fleet had wound down for the night, passing the baton to the nation’s largest fleet of fossil-fuel-burning plants to keep all those air conditioners going. Gas …
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For the second year in a row, Sunrun is demonstrating how uniquely capable, reliable and readily available its solar-plus-storage systems are as an essential grid solution. In the summer of 2023, Sunrun’s Peak Power Rewards program supplied Pacific Gas and Electric Company up to 32 megawatts of power during evening peak hours from 8,500 customers’ batteries. This summer, Sunrun is …
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Canadian Banks Scale Back Fossil Fuel Funding, but Not Declining Nearly Fast Enough. Canada’s biggest banks cut down on financing to the fossil fuel industry in 2023, according to a new report from a coalition of environmental groups. However, the analysis of 60 major global lenders found Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS.TO), Canadian Bank of Imperial Commerce (CM.TO), Bank of …
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