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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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A CACOR Live presentation Speaker: Ruben Nelson Topic: Permacrisis, Polycrisis, Metacrisis: An attempt to Clarify the Human Problematique – Just what are we in for? Time: Jul 31, 2024 01:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Confused and inadequate conceptualizations lead to wrong-headed understandings. Confused and wrongheaded understandings lead to well intended prescriptions which often make things worse. Since our …
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You are invited to a scheduled CACOR Live meeting. Speaker: Raymond Leury Subject: Part 3: Do we have the Materials for a Green Transition? Time: Aug 7, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join CACOR Live Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84785107906?pwd=eEhYRjgrOEZ3Nmpvcnk2SVc1aW5MQT09 Meeting ID: 847 8510 7906 Passcode: 734316 Summary: Climate change is an existential threat. Temperature records keep falling, climate emergencies are …
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June 06, 2024 Riley Callanan "Tucker Carlson has called for an invasion of Canada to liberate America’s northern neighbors from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but it turns out that Canadians are liberating themselves and invading the US in droves. "Well, they aren’t invading, but they are emigrating at a rate not seen in years. "According to the US Census Bureau, …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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(Editor: This article is from the blockchain community looking at innovative ways to build Virtual Power Plants. Art) Energy is a collection of highly regulated monopolies in the US today, and one we believe is ripe for disruption. In recent years we’ve seen a secular shift towards broader deployment of distributed energy resources (DERs) like solar panels, batteries (often in a Tesla powerwall-like …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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1.1 The Human Predicament Humanity is facing its greatest emergency, a crisis consisting of many, interlinked, catastrophic risks. The crisis is already here, and will get worse. Its combined scale and impact are so great that few grasp it. Together, these risks endanger our ability to maintain a civilization, possibly even to survive as a species. Global solutions are …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is taking significant steps to reduce emissions from federal buildings, leveraging $3.4 billion from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. This initiative aligns with President Biden's goal for the federal government to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, focusing on decarbonizing construction and operations in over 8,800 buildings.
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives. Anna Laetitia Barbauld, poet, essayist, and editor (1743-1825)
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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Greenwashing – the deceptive tactics behind environmental claims https://www.un.org/en/climatechange Greenwashing presents a significant obstacle to tackling climate change. By misleading the public to believe that a company or other entity is doing more to protect the environment than it is, greenwashing promotes false solutions to the climate crisis that distract from and delay concrete and credible action. Greenwashing manifests itself in …
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This paper by John Walsh was abstracted from a longer document entitled The American Technological Renaissance and the Role of Government in Technology with Special Reference to the Carbon Dioxide Problem. The purpose of the original paper was to suggest that two influence influential but distinct establishments exist in the USA: the usual business-political-legal-economist hegemony; and a more amorphous scientific-technological-military-medical …
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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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How wildfires and climate change can affect your health By Courtney Howard | Opinion | August 4th 2015 #1 of 119 articles from the Special Report: Wildfires As an ER doctor in Yellowknife who often sees patients for respiratory ailments, I've taken a special interest in the rash of climate-induced wildfires this summer. A few weeks ago my computer screen …
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Expanding industrial logging into remaining unlogged forests is not the solution; more broad forest management is. The wildfires pictured on July 24, 2024, in Williams Lake, B.C. Tom Cameron, who sent this photo to The Hill Times, said the fire was about 500 metres from his home. 'One minute we were sitting down to dinner and the next we were …
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Pumping more oil while the house burns down: how long will the fantasy last? Fossil fuels still hugely contribute to provincial coffers and the federal treasury, but too so would green energy alternatives if given a chance to flourish instead of being undermined by the Alberta government. Last summer's forest fires in Alberta. With a few exceptions, our politicians are …
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by Francesco Amato: Business Development Manager, Latitudo 40 Sponsored article Francesco Amato of Latitudo 40 explains how cities can harness the power of satellite imagery analysis and AI to provide meaningful geospatial insights. Satellite data can be used to inform heatmaps that help to combat the urban heat island effect Satellite data is increasingly being utilised by cities to monitor key …
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Duke’s projects, and the others being proposed today, are nothing more than traditional gas plants with environmentally friendly verbiage. State regulators and the financial community need to evaluate them on that basis. In the body of this report, we will examine three key hurdles that will slow and perhaps entirely halt the widespread use of hydrogen as a replacement for …
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44 Nations Sign Anti Deep-Sea Mining Accord
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Digital twins30 Jul 2024by SmartCitiesWorld news team MILC Metaverse and Ion Power Grid Association aim to combine the technologies to build a decentralised global energy infrastructure and energy exchange system. bookmark_border MILC Metaverse and Ion Power Grid plan to create “a perfect, virtual smart city” as a model for future cities MILC Metaverse has partnered with Ion Power Grid (IPG) Association …
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THE Philippines has so far achieved 93.12% electrification as of the first quarter of 2024. By the end of the year, the country aims to increase this to 94.83%, and achieve full electrification by 2028. But to plug-in electricity for all homes throughout the country, the government needs to address various challenges including the $1.23-b (PHP72b) funding needed from 2024 …
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Electricity retailer Nectr is offering a “never before seen” feed-in tariff of 50c/kWh for energy sent to the grid between the hours of 4pm and 9pm, but only for customers who sign up to its new virtual power plant. The deal, which also dangles a one-off $100 sign-up credit, marks the third VPP offering from Nectr – a subsidiary the …
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As climate change leaves parts of the world baking in temperatures dangerous to human life and devastating to ecosystems, the Saskatchewan government continues to resist every sensible Government of Canada policy aimed at addressing the crisis. The World Meteorological Organization has just declared the period July 2023 to June 2024 the hottest 12 months in 174 years of record keeping. It has …
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