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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: Nandita Bajaj Topic: Confronting population denial amid the unraveling polycrisis Time: Jun 19, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Human population has doubled in the last 50 years, growing from approximately four billion in 1970 to eight billion currently. There is rising public awareness that overpopulation and rampant overconsumption are driving climate change, resource scarcity, and biodiversity …
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You are invited to a scheduled CACOR Live meeting. Speaker: Paul Martin Topic: Hydrogen, Hopium, and Scale. Time: Jun 26, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89832559767?pwd=WjJvV1ZGV0FYQ1VNcmVkUE5xUWxTZz09 Meeting ID: 898 3255 9767 Passcode: 613791 Summary: EV vs hydrogen trucks and the materials and primary energy fallacy myths. Biography: Paul Martin is a Toronto based chemical engineer with …
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The most at-risk regions in the world for high-impact heatwaves Open access Published: 25 April 2023 volume 14, Article number: 2152 (2023) Cite this article Heatwaves are becoming more frequent under climate change and can lead to thousands of excess deaths. Adaptation to extreme weather events often occurs in response to an event, with communities learning fast following unexpectedly impactful events. Using extreme value statistics, …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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May 13, 2024 Canadian Minister of National Defense of Bill Blair discusses the updated defense policy, explores US-Canadian bilateral relations, addresses Canada's role in transatlantic security, and more. For further information, please visit: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/event... ..."Atlantic Council is a nonpartisan organization that galvanizes US leadership and engagement in the world, in partnership with allies and partners, to shape solutions to global …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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The concept of virtual power plants, in which electric cars can serve as batteries to help balance electricity demand and supply, has the potential benefits such as reducing reliance on fossil fuels and optimizing renewable energy usage.
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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In 2024, about $2 trillion will be invested in clean energy projects — a first for the rapidly expanding sector. The amount is nearly double what will be invested in oil, coal, and gas this year, according to the International Energy Agency’s new report “World Energy Investment 2024.” Since 2015, the ratio of spending on clean energy compared to fossil fuels has completely flip-flopped. The reason …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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The author of this article, Robert Theobold, was one of the founders of the QLN Network, which aims to create a future with a high quality of life based on ecological integrity, effective decision-making, and social cohesion. His latest book was Reworking Success (New Society Publishers). 1997 Series 1 Number 23 Page 14 There are two competing visions for the …
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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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‘What if there just is no solution?’ How we are all in denial about the climate crisis. You are in denial about the climate crisis. We all are, argues the American scholar Tad DeLay. Right-wing climate deniers are not the only ones with a problem, he says when we speak in early June after the release of his …
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Bloomberg contributor David Fickling has an interesting perspective on the world of energy. He writes that the seven largest solar companies today are already supplying more total energy to power human civilization than the seven largest oil and gas companies. That is probably a surprise to most CleanTechnica readers, so let’s unpack his findings to see how he arrived at that conclusion.
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https://econ.st/3RBbbQo The exponential growth of solar power will change the world
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Network company Western Power says virtual power plants have “huge potential” to solve some of the grid’s thorniest problems, including doing away with the emergency solar switch-off button, and could remove the need for subsidies by helping batteries pay for themselves. A future where DER is integral to a safe, reliable and efficient electricity system, and where the full capabilities …
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A new age in the human experience on Earth is under way. It is an age of change as profound — and possibly more so — than the Industrial Revolution, when the steam engine introduced the concept of post-animal labor, known as shaft horsepower. Some things will change totally, like work: It will end much menial work and a whole tranche …
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Calgary's water emergency is just the start
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Re: City needs to take real action on climate change, 2024 June 19, A4 Thank you, Randal Denley, wonderful sarcasm, richly deserved. Part of the problem, of course, is that the municipality is chronically underfunded by its political master, the provincial government, whose own record on the climate file is a blank. On top of that, the federal government has …
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An antique collection of wheat from around the world could breathe new vigor into the staple. When plant breeders created modern wheat during the 19th and 20th centuries, they focused on crossing and selectively breeding a few key varieties, creating a finicky racehorse of a crop: high yielding but vulnerable to disease, heat, and drought and reliant on a liberal …
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Yale Environment 360 The world is awash with greenhouses growing fresh vegetables year-round for health-conscious urbanites. There are so many of them that in places their plastic and glass roofs are reflecting sufficient solar radiation to cool local temperatures — even as surrounding areas warm due to climate change.The extent of this accidental climate engineering is becoming ever more apparent …
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Leaders | The solar age An energy-rich future is within reach Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. It is 70 years since at&t’s Bell Labs unveiled a new technology for turning sunlight into power. The phone company hoped it could replace the batteries that run equipment in out-of-the-way places. It also realised that powering devices with light …
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