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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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You are invited to a scheduled CACOR Live meeting. Topic: Keep Our Counties Great: Implementing Limits to Growth at the Local Level. Speaker: Dave Rollo Time: 17 July 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81979933683?pwd=nMAl3pKrmgshF7DOIqJKQ4sOLOFlQ0.1 Meeting ID: 819 7993 3683 Passcode: 278756 Summary: Economic growth requires ever expanding materials and energy throughput that is unsustainable, and at odds …
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Boosting biodiversity without hurting local economies Date: June 21, 2024 Source: Duke University Summary: Protected areas, like nature reserves, can conserve biodiversity without harming local economic growth, countering a common belief that conservation restricts development. A new study outlines what is needed for conservation to benefit both nature and people. Share: FULL STORY Worth Protecting Protected areas, like nature reserves, …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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May 22, 2024 By Rachel Feltman & Anaissa Ruiz Tejada "Rachel Feltman: Picture someone who’s prepared to survive the end of the world: What are they up to? Maybe you’re imagining a “vaultie” from Fallout zipping themselves into a uniform and heading underground to hide away from the rest of humanity. Or did your mind jump to Nick Offerman’s isolationist …
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Categories: Articles, Blogs, CACOR Groups
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. Nikola Tesla, electrical engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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San Diegans in a desert community are engaged in a pilot program with SDG&E, allowing the utility to control their energy systems to reduce strain on the grid. This "virtual power plant" initiative involves managing smart devices like thermostats and solar panels to optimize energy use and distribution.
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Categories: Articles, Climate, Energy
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Dear Lillian: When your mother was the age you are now, she deeply changed my world view by wrapping her little arms around my neck and calling me "Daddy." Having watched her come into the world, before dawn, one windy November day, it was already clear that I was a father. Yet, until she spoke that word, it hadn't sunk …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Writers
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It Won’t Happen to Me Preparing for Disaster by Overcoming Optimism Bias To live is to risk. Being born is risky. Getting out of bed is risky. Crossing the street is risky. Your first date is risky. The 6th mass extinction is risky. Toxic chemicals are risky. The climate emergency is risky. And yet most of us are terrible at …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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This is our home and we are exploring and discovering what our neighbourhood looks like. Now, the jaw-dropping image has had a multiwavelength 3D makeover thanks to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This new mosaic, which is also showcased in a new NASA video, highlights the differences between the two telescopes. JWST's newer data isn't necessarily better; it merely helps …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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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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Sick Chimps Seek out Medicinal Plants to Heal Themselves
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Chapter Thirteen Encouragement of Benefit Corporations by Derek Paul (CACOR member) A benefit corporation is one whose corporate charter includes goals that are beneficial to humanity and/or the environment in addition to the goal of profit-making. In this way the benefit corporation differs very distinctly from traditional corporations, which legally have only the responsibility to make profit. Corporations can be …
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Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds
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Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Heat waves Why a hotter world might be a more dangerous, violent, and less productive one DEENA MOUSA Notes on Progress are pieces that are a bit too short to run on Works in Progress. In this piece, Deena Mousa investigates the human costs of a hotter world. The window of safe internal …
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The IESO, with support from Natural Resources Canada, is undertaking a demonstration in York Region to explore market-based approaches to secure energy and capacity services from distributed energy resources (DERs) for local needs, while coordinating across the electricity system. A key objective of the IESO York Region Non Wires Alternatives Demonstration Project is to better understand the potential of using …
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Destroying The Pacific Ocean In The Name Of Green Energy Transition
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Heroes: How these Swiss seniors won first-ever climate case in international court Heat-related deaths have spiked by roughly 30% in Europe over the last two decades. A group of older Swiss women successfully argued their government wasn't doing enough to protect them. BY RICK SPENCE ( published in Corporate Knights ) JULY 4, 2024 Switzerland may be famous for its …
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(Canada is not in the top 10, of course) The global energy storage fleet continues to grow in leaps and bounds on the back of the growing demand for clean firm capacity and rapidly falling battery storage prices. However, analysts suggest that the industry is only in the starting blocks, with exponential growth to be expected in the years to come. According to …
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As World’s Springs Vanish, Ripple Effects Alter Ecosystems
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Palm Springs breaks all-time record high temperature amidst California heat wave. LATEST July 5, 4:09 p.m. Palm Springs’ record high temperature of 123 degrees was broken Friday, the National Weather Service confirmed over the phone to SFGATE. Though the organization won’t officially record it as a record-breaking temperature until 5 p.m. Friday, the temperature reading taken at 3:53 p.m., which represents …
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