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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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The latest 'CACOR LIVE' schedule is HERE.
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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: David Hutton Subject: Whistleblower Protection and Global Warming Time: Aug 28, 2024 Summary: The industries most responsible for global warming are engaged in sophisticated, well-funded efforts to mislead the public, in order to boost their profits by undermining efforts to combat climate change. Whistleblowers – insiders who witness such deceptions and help expose them – can be a …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Dr. Art Hunter Subject: Project Payback. Financial benefits of a microgrid as part of a virtual power plant Time: 4 Sept 2024 13:30 Eastern Standard Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85009414092?pwd=N0NWWU4ycE92ellRSlQ5MmpFT1F3dz09 Meeting ID: 850 0941 4092 Passcode: 412906 Summary: Home rooftop solar panels and home batteries provide a microgrid …
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The truth is the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it. Sir David Attenborough
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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The Future is Now I am just back from an almost 3 month long road trip so this is going to be as short as my time away was long. There was one evening in particular which hit me like a ton of bricks that all we have been discussing at CACOR and COR is no longer theory - it …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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By Thomas R. Insel, Pamela Y. Collins, and Steven E. Hyman January/February 2015 Four years ago, a team of scholars from the Harvard School of Public Health and the World Economic Forum prepared a report on the current and future global economic burden of disease. Science and medicine have made tremendous progress in combating infectious diseases during the past five decades, …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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The Rocky Mountain Institute's (RMI) Contrail Impact Task Force has released a report urging the aviation industry to improve its understanding and management of contrails due to their significant non-CO2 climate impacts. This report emphasizes the need for "radical collaboration" among aviation stakeholders to mitigate the sector's overall climate footprint. Recommendations Contrail Prediction Models: Airlines are encouraged to use advanced …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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The Ontario government is transitioning to a zero-emissions electricity system by phasing out natural gas power stations and replacing them with battery energy storage systems (BESS). This transition aims to accommodate the electrification of various sectors by 2050 and will utilize renewable energy sources like solar and wind. The focus is on ensuring that the development of BESS and renewable energy facilities considers the needs and concerns of local communities.
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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A Visitor's View of the Earth. 1997 Series 1 Number 23 Page 28 C.R. (Buzz) Nixon wrote this one-page essay several years before its publication. In it, he muses about Carl Sagan’s famous Pale Blue Dot in the form of the photo of Earth from an astronaut’s viewpoint. He related that a extra-terrestrial observing Earth from space might well determine …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers
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Coastal cities must adapt faster to climate change A new study investigating the status of climate change adaptation in coastal cities worldwide discovers progress and shortcomings Date: August 27, 2024 Source: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Summary: Coastal cities play a key role in the global economy and have important functions for society at large. At the same time, they are severely affected …
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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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PowerSecure, a distributed energy infrastructure provider and key player in the microgrid industry, announced today that its Durham, North Carolina, campus microgrid is launching a 100% renewable fuel initiative. The Durham campus will use hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) to power the PowerBlock generator connected to the site’s existing hybrid microgrid. PowerSecure’s PowerBlock systems are renewable fuel ready, so no generator …
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LDES systems integrate with renewable generation sites and can store energy for over 10 hours. e-Zinc’s battery is one example of a 12–100-hour duration solution, with capabilities including recapturing curtailed energy for time shifting, providing resilience when the grid goes down and addressing extended periods of peak demand to replace traditional peaking power plants and transmission and distribution infrastructure. To …
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Cody Chiverton has spent a decade lighting fires. As a former firefighter with the US Forest Service, he participated in dozens of prescribed burns across the American West, in which fire-prevention teams use drip torches to ignite vegetation, leaving flames and smoke in their wake. But in June, Chiverton did a prescribed burn with no flames and no smoke. Instead, …
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Tesla is committed to helping fire departments and first responders safely handle emergency situations involving all Tesla products. Emergency disconnects are available to safely de-energize the vehicle when extraction is necessary to rescue passengers. For Vehicle Owners In the event of an accident, follow these instructions: Turn Off Your Vehicle Roadsters: Turn off the vehicle and remove the key. Model …
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Canada’s 2023 wildfires produced more emissions than fossil fuels in most countries!
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Green Mountain Power’s VPPs provide capacity, resilience, and ancillary services, as well as resource adequacy, reliability, and customer empowerment. For the bring-your-own-device program, Green Mountain Power handles offtake, customer enrollment, and customer payments. Customers who sign a 10-year enrollment contract receive up-front incentives of $850 per kW for three-hour discharge, or $950 per kW for four-hour discharge, up to $10,000. …
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David Suzuki Foundation accuses Electricity Canada of ‘misinformation campaign’ By John Woodside News Politics August 29th 2024 #0 of 9 articles from the Special Report: Powering Up Share this article Illustration by Ata Ojani Illustration by Ata Ojani/Canada's National Observer Listen to article A battle over Canada’s clean electricity future is heating up as the David Suzuki Foundation accuses a …
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Canada drawn further into China trade war as Trudeau announces new tariffs on Chinese EVs By Cloe Logan John Woodside News August 27th 2024 Share this article Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves a media conference at the Federal ministers cabinet retreat in Halifax, Monday, Aug. 26, 2024. Photo by: The Canadian Press/Kelly Clark Listen to article Clean transportation advocates say …
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Indigenous Of Australia. Fighting Wildfire For 60,000 years!
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Thanks to its ballasted steel foundation, the PairTree can be installed within a single workday with just two workers using standard hand tools–more than 30 times faster than conventional solar canopies. Plus there are no moving parts, no motors to fail, and no annual maintenance.
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