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June 15, 2024
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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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David Longworth | Preparing for Pandemics. | 2024-06-12 | CACOR Live

David Longworth | Preparing for Pandemics. | 2024-06-12 | CACOR Live

Title: Preparing for Pandemics. Speaker:  Dr. David Longworth Time: Jun 12, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) David Longworth is a retired economist. He had a 36-year career at the Bank of Canada. From 2003 until 2010, he was a Deputy Governor there—one of two responsible for issues related to financial stability and financial markets. From 2005 to 2010, …

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Nandita Bajaj | Confronting population denial amid the unraveling polycrisis | 2024-06-19 | CACOR Live

Nandita Bajaj | Confronting population denial amid the unraveling polycrisis | 2024-06-19 | CACOR Live

You are invited to a scheduled CACOR Live presentation. Speaker: Nandita Bajaj Topic: Confronting population denial amid the unraveling polycrisis Time: Jun 19, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82541105918?pwd=WDVSRE9nV1RhcHlPaGJrK2luZ0RaQT09 Meeting ID: 825 4110 5918 Passcode: 973499 Summary: Human population has doubled in the last 50 years, growing from approximately four billion in 1970 to eight …

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Latest Articles

Best 10 Energy Storage Initiatives

Energy storage is crucial for the shift to renewable energy, providing a reliable power supply despite weather variations. This technology improves grid resilience and stability, meeting the increasing demand for energy storage driven by renewable energy requirements.

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Best 10 Energy Storage Initiatives

Triple threat to the Environment.

Triple threat to the Environment.
Break free from pollution, climate chaos and ‘biodiversity decimation’, UN chief urges United Nations June 2024 © UNEP/Todd Brown A woman helps restore degraded land in Ecuador. 4 June 2024  Climate and Environment The UN Secretary-General has called for safeguarding Earth’s vital ecosystems from rampant pollution, worsening climate impacts and “biodiversity decimation”. In a message marking Wednesday’s World Environment Day, António …

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Foreign Affairs: A UN Trusteeship for Palestine

A Temporary Fix That Can Lead to an Enduring Peace By Lloyd Axworthy, Michael W. Manulak, and Allan Rock  May 15, 2024 "The current crisis in the Middle East, sparked seven months ago by Hamas’s attack on Israel, shows worrying signs of worsening. Tit-for-tat strikes between Israel and Iran in April, unprecedented in their directness, threaten to turn the long-standing …

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‘Any utility today can have a VPP program’: Sunrun virtual power plant head

‘Any utility today can have a VPP program’: Sunrun virtual power plant head
Learn about best practices for VPP design, the grid value of demand response and why targeting early adopters could lead distributed energy providers astray.

Categories: Articles, Climate

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If you think you can or if you think you can’t, you’re right.

If you think you can or if you think you can’t – you’re right. Henry Ford

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The Future is Ours to Choose

The Future is Ours to Choose The world is full of wondours and miracles but men takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing. - I. B. Shem I’ve been struggling to find some way of seeing the glass 1/2 full instead of mostly empty as I observe the desolation we are inflicting upon each other and …

Categories: Articles, What are you doing

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Can Science Bring Us Peace?—From CACOR Archives.

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Can Science Bring Us Peace? 1997  Series 1  Number 23  Page 1 Jerzy Wojciechowsky, from the Department of Philosophy at U Ottawa, delivered the paper at the Interdisciplinary Conference on the Evolution of World Order, which was sponsored by Ryerson Polytechnical U in Toronto and the Caledon Centre for Culture and Education of SDI Canada. Abstract The development of science …

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How well are we doing?

How well are we doing?
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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Diving into the Future of Virtual Power Plants

" When we completely electrify California and we eliminate all gas, that load will become almost three times as much equaling the whole western United States system, we will go from about 60,000 to 160,000 MW. So, the paradigm that we are going into, the way I see it, is that the high-voltage grid that will require dozens of super …

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Note from the top 2

Thursday 13 June 2024 7:47PM by Bob Este, CACOR member In my last note of yesterday, I neglected to mention that during our road trip through Banff and Jasper National Parks, and then West on Hwy 16 to visit our disabled grandson in BC, we saw the three bears. No goldilocks, though—although, yes, by the side of the road, we …

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Sargassum seaweed invasion across Caribbean beaches

Huge Blobs of Seaweed Are Choking the Caribbean’s Iconic White Sand Beaches Massive blobs of sargassum seaweed are taking over Caribbean beaches. The seaweed explosion is fueled by pollution washing into the ocean from rivers in the Americas and Africa. The Sargasso Sea is often referred to as a golden, floating rainforest for its vast floating sargassum blooms and the …

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The world is facing a 'semi-dystopian' future

I am not a prophet. I don’t know what will happen tomorrow, much less next year or beyond. However, as a scientist, I read scientific literature and books about ecology, agriculture and dynamic systems and, at this point, I am compelled to say that the collapse of civilizations is, at least, possible. Given my attachment to family and friends, my …

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Swift Solar nabs $27M to chase solar efficiency holy grail: perovskites

Generating clean electricity from solar photovoltaic technology is the success story of the clean energy transition so far, but entrepreneurs and investors are still plumbing the science for improved performance and cost. Startup Swift Solar banked a $27 million Series A financing round this week to commercialize a new light-absorbing class of crystalline materials known as perovskites, which have the potential to improve upon today’s utterly dominant technology — …

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Powering Canada: A blueprint for success

Canada Electricity Advisory Council: Final report May 2024 Letter from the Council Chair Canadians come at energy from different perspectives. Some are primarily concerned about affordability and competitiveness, others about the effects of long-term climate change on our children’s future. For many, it's a matter of reliability — keeping the proverbial lights on. And for many Indigenous peoples, it's about …

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The Great Energy Transition, Challenges and Opportunities

Empire Club of Canada June 12, 2024 Lesley Gallinger President and CEO, IESO CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY • Thank you, Sal, for inviting me to provide context for today’s conversation. • And we are delighted to have our new Associate Minister of Energy-Intensive Industries, the Honourable Sam Oosterhoff, joining us today. • I appreciate the Empire Club facilitating this important dialogue …

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How can more companies use 24/7 clean energy? Hourly matching is ‘not the hard part,’ analysts say

Decarbonization leaders say we have the technology to match emissions with energy generation on an hourly basis. Insufficient data and renewable generation represent the real barriers, they say. LevelTen Energy, which runs a marketplace for power purchase agreements and other renewable energy assets, has also begun work on a marketplace for trading time- and location-specific renewable energy certificates, which they …

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What Are Runaway Climate Events?

Steven Earle, PhD, has worked in the Earth Sciences, has developed and taught university Earth Science courses for almost four decades. His is also author to two books, Runaway Climate and A Brief History of Earth’s Climate. Unlike most climate scientists, Earle is able to convey the complexities of climate science to lay readers. A part of his study, is …

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Beyond mainstream economics. Towards Social Ecological Economics?

How to challenge conventional economic paradigms? " My hope with mainstream economics is that I have no hope with the mainstream of economics. It’s because I've moved. And the reason I developed social ecological economics is because I gave up on trying to communicate with the mainstream. You know, I was trained in this kind of economics, I understand it. …

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