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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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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: Julie Johnston Topic: Greening the Heart of Education. Time: May 22, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) 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, if we don't consciously choose to educate for development that is sustainable, by default we are educating for unsustainability. …
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You are invited to a scheduled CACOR Live meeting. Speaker: Paul Beckwith Topic: Global Tipping Points: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Time: May 29, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87149637250?pwd=R2R5UlVXMVNXdkxBdUJhUUxJem1ZQT09 Meeting ID: 871 4963 7250 Passcode: 399099 Summary: The Good Tipping Points include renewables like solar PV and wind power, battery storage, electric cars, …
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By Paul Fenn Al Norman’s recent column on the proposed Wendell megabattery is spot on . Investing in more centralized grids in an era of technological miniaturization is building backward. Gov. Maura Healey and the state’s attorney general are following the Biden administration’s anachronistic playbook written by the utilities that own the grid, have blocked climate action efforts for decades, …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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In the U.S., buildings produce a third of greenhouse gas emissions. An EPA study proposes a 63% energy consumption reduction by 2030 for these buildings.
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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More people care about climate change than you think The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this share. By: Hannah Ritchie March 25, 2024 Cite this articleReuse our work freely People across the world, and the political spectrum, underestimate levels of support for climate action. This “perception gap” matters. Governments will change …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape. Bono, musician and social activist (b. 1960) I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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May 09, 2024 John Ivison "Former Republican nominee hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy was mocked for his proposal during one GOP debate to build border walls with Mexico and Canada. "The problems at the southern border are well-documented. In January, US Border Patrol reported 124,200 encounters with migrants trying to enter the country illegally – and that is a 50% drop from …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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The Problematique Resolved. This six-page essay by Keith Wilde was based on a lunchtime presentation to CACOR in September 1998. 1998 Series 1 Number 27 Page 19 He began with this: “I propose that a relatively simple and effective solution is hand the problematique identified by the Club of Rome 30 some years ago. It relies on techniques which fall …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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Investing in Culture for Development: The Role of Cultural Expression through Television. 1998 Series 1 Number 28 Page 13 David Nostbakken examined how international development agencies need take into account local cultures and cultural diversity. Link to | Investing in Culture for Development: The Role of Cultural Expression through Television.
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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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Last summer’s temperature rise could be worse than we thought. The 19th century, used as a baseline for global heating, may have been a quarter of a degree cooler than previously believed. Since 2015, when the world’s governments promised to work to try to keep global temperatures from rising 1.5 ⁰C above pre-industrial levels, it has always seemed likely they …
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One of the UK’s first Virtual Power Plant’s (VPP) is set to be added to a pioneering 300-home scheme in Dudley. Equans is set to deliver Europe’s first net zero carbon neighbourhood in Brockmoor, Dudley, comprising a mix of privately owned and social housing properties. The scheme is acting as a pilot to find a scalable solution for decarbonising neighbourhoods …
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The NSW Government will launch a new incentive to make household batteries more accessible and affordable for NSW residents. Households and businesses with solar panels on their roofs will be able to buy a cheaper, subsidized battery to store solar energy generated when the sun is shining. This will help get the most out of their solar, by allowing them …
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The way forward on the climate crisis Renewable energy microgrids are best initiated at local scales, ignoring fossil fuels, and allowing market forces to dictate reductions in fossil fuel demand. The logical way forward is through renewable clean energy through microgrids to satisfy increased demands for electricity as fossil fuels are phased out, write Geoff Strong and Richard van der …
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States have legal duty to cut greenhouse emissions, says top maritime court. Wealthy states must cut emissions faster than their developing peers, court says, in major step for climate justice. Greenhouse gases are pollutants that are wrecking the marine environment, and states have a legal responsibility to control them, an international court has stated in a landmark moment for climate …
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Slavery Poisons Solar Industry’s Supply Chains. KEY TAKEAWAYS Roughly 80% of solar components are manufactured in China using slave labour. The onus lies with US companies to provide clear and convincing evidence that their imports from Xinjiang were not produced using forced labor. There should be no opportunity for Chinese goods made with slave labor to enter American markets. Behind …
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For all of the mobility they offer, cars, in general, spend most of their time sitting still. The average American spends around an hour a day driving, according to AAA, and in a country with roughly one vehicle per person, that’s a lot of cars just sitting around doing nothing. Electric vehicles create an opportunity to put that downtime to use. …
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No rooftop? No problem: Inside Germany’s ‘balcony solar’ boom. Apartment dwellers, who don’t have their own private rooftops, have been largely left behind in the global solar boom. That’s starting to change—at least in Germany. In numbers: More than 400,000 households across the country have installed mini solar systems on their balconies, with over 50,000 added in the first quarter of …
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A renewable energy company based in Gatineau, Que., is getting a second crack at garnering the local support it needs for a proposed battery storage facility in west Ottawa. Evolugen wants to build a battery facility south of Fitzroy Harbour for storing excess energy. They're one of many companies that have pitched projects to Ontario's Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO), which is …
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Virtual power plants (VPPs) are attracting a lot of attention at the moment. Our upcoming 50 States of Grid Modernization Q1 2024 report documents numerous policy and program actions taken by several states, and our very own Autumn Proudlove moderated a session on VPPs at the 2024 North Carolina State Energy Conference. Additionally, the U.S. Department of Energy published an extensive report on …
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