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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: 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) Summary: Climate change is an existential threat. Temperature records keep falling, climate emergencies are declared, yet we don’t seem to be making much progress in addressing the threat. How much progress have we made? There …
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You are invited to a scheduled CACOR Live meeting. Speaker: David Hutton Subject: Whistleblower Protection and Global Warming Time: Aug 28, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join CACOR Live Meeting URL is TBD Summary: The industries most responsible for global warming are engaged in sophisticated, well-funded efforts to mislead others, in order to boost their profits by undermining …
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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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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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Consumers are different from citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities, and duties to their fellow human beings. And so long as you are using that word "consumer" in the public discussion, you will be degrading the quality of the discussion. James Howard Kunstler, American writer, who spoke to CaCOR on 2024 July 10: A Disturbing and Provocative Viewpoint on …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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Thousands of miles of canals stretch across the U.S. A pilot project on tribal land in Arizona shows the benefits of covering these waterways with solar panels. The first canal-based solar project in the U.S. is nearing completion on tribal lands south of Phoenix, Arizona. Native Americans have been using canals to irrigate the Gila River Valley for thousands of years, …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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The International Energy Agency (IEA) reports a significant increase in household investment in distributed energy resources since 2015, driven by rising incomes and technologies like rooftop solar and electric vehicles. In New York, distributed solar has outpaced utility-scale projects, benefiting local communities. Rooftop solar notably reduces energy costs for low-income families by up to 77%. Federal initiatives are directing investments towards electric vehicle infrastructure in these areas. There are calls to raise New York’s solar goal to 20 GW by 2035 for greater economic benefits.
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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From Nothing to Nothing in No Time: Reflections on Birth Control and Euthanasia. 1997 Series 1 Number 23 Page 23 Tom de Feyer characterized this essay as part of the search for the Big Picture raised in a presentation to CACOR in June 1993 by Madeline Weld (Human Population Growth). Tom said Madeline had made it clear that how to …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers
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Remembrance of wrongs is the consummation, the logical endgame, of anger – the keeper of sin, the hatred of righteousness, the ruin of virtues, the poison of the soul, the worm of the mind, to be ashamed of prayer. You will know you have completely freed yourself of this rot, not when you pray for the person who offended you, …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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Mixed approach to reforestation better than planting or regeneration alone Date: July 24, 2024 Source: Duke University Summary: Reforestation in low- and middle-income countries can remove up to 10 times more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at lower cost than previously estimated, making it a potentially more effective option to fight climate change. Most current reforestation programs focus on tree …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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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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Mere weeks removed from the havoc stirred up by Hurricane Beryl, which knocked out power for roughly three million homes and businesses, Sunrun is expanding its support of the Texas grid. Virtual power plant pioneer Sunrun has announced a partnership with Tesla Electric, a retail electricity provider operated by Tesla Energy Ventures LLC (a subsidiary of Tesla, Inc.) in an aggregated power …
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Want to exercise critical thinking skills? Ask these questions whenever you discover or discuss new information. These are broad and versatile questions that have limitless applications! Available Here...
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Fossil fuel companies pour on the pressure to weaken disclosure rules By John Woodside | News, Business, Energy | August 8th 2024 Art by Ata Ojani/Canada’s National Observer Fossil fuel companies are pressuring a financial standards agency to weaken proposed rules to report on greenhouse gas emissions. If the board caves, it could threaten Canada’s economic position through the energy …
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By Sydney Lobe | News | August 8th 2024 The aftermath of a summer 2023 fire that burned an area near Kamloops B.C. Photo by: Jennifer Osborne for Canada's National Observer. Previous story Next story Listen to article Years ago, ecologist Dr. Karen Price walked through a forest ravaged by wildfire that had been logged and replanted. It was a …
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IPCC Short Version For Policy Makers
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The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) has been considering the very expensive expansion of energy demands from growth of heat pump use in buildings, Electric Vehicle replacement of ICE vehicles, demands from data centers (IA), population growth, Climate Change damage to infrastructure, and the growing cost of large nuclear reactors and other major forces. Cost, time, reliability and flexibility are major …
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The facade of the 1960s-era apartment block on Wilson Avenue is showing its age, with weather stains on the white bricks and residents complaining that rain leaks in around the windows. Walk around to the other side, however, and the Downsview building appears brand new, with blue stucco cladding and sleek modern balcony railings. But this is no superficial facelift. Look a …
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Art, Your OREC Newsletter. (mailchi.mp)
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© 2024 Robert A. Este Cochrane, Alberta, Canada Fri 31 May 2024 Have you ever been to Baja California? Not me. More than 50 years ago, I considered driving down and "roughing it" there for a few weeks -- a bit of a romantic vision, I suppose you could call it, a dream of adventure weaving its way through the …
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George Monbiot Guardian columnist A staple of dystopian science fictions is an inner sanctum of privilege and an outer world – chemical desert/airless waste/District 12 – peopled by the desperate poor. The insiders, living off the exploited labour of the outlands, are indifferent to the horrors beyond their walls. Well, here we are. Even as extreme heat raged across …
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