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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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New Videos ⚡ Share on your personal networks and social media📱
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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: Dr. David Harries Subject: WHENCE & WHITHER CANADA’S SOVEREIGNTY? Time: 11 Sept 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: The abysmal state of Canada’s national security was fully exposed for the first time in an Ottawa speech in November 2022. This ‘inflexion point’ was sharpened in 2023 by a host of events confirming the sorry state of Canada's …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Maude Barlow Subject: Facing the Global Water Crisis with Knowledge and Hope Time: 18 Sept 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82072307258?pwd=EbUFXuxxdaKgNyCK52sAfTULABCJJB.1 Meeting ID: 820 7230 7258 Passcode: 974307 Summary: The planet is facing a twin water crisis - human and ecological. Canada is not exempt from this crisis …
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The headline from the Toronto Star on 8 July 2024: ‘Nobody has these stories’: Canada’s longest river at record low levels. The subhead tells a story that is happening around the world: “The Mackenzie River’s water levels are about two metres below average, said territorial hydrologist Ryan Connon. Only two years ago, rivers and rivers and lakes in the Mackenzie system were at all-time …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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The Department of Defense updates its plans for an Arctic defense strategy ...the Pentagon announces a new strategy to defend US interests in the Arctic. Learn how the military plans to operate in the far north... ...As global temperatures warm and new areas of navigation open up in the far north, the Arctic has become an area of increased military …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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From Politics and the English Language, an essay by George Orwell, 1946 The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idiom, like a cuttlefish spurting ink. In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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Water safety is a key challenge compounded by climate risks and data gaps Rob Hope Authors Info & Affiliations Science 15 Aug 2024 In 2020, more than 2 billion people were estimated to lack access to safely managed drinking water services (1). However, the existing data on safely managed drinking water services are scarce especially in low- and middle-income countries. …
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TRISO (TRi-structural ISOtropic) nuclear fuel cells are a type of advanced nuclear fuel designed to enhance the safety and efficiency of nuclear reactors. Each TRISO particle is a tiny, spherical fuel pellet encased in multiple layers of protective materials that act as a barrier. This barrier contains the radioactive fission products, preventing them from escaping even under extreme conditions. TRISO …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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Dive Brief: The California Energy Commission may require “any weight class” of battery-electric vehicles to have vehicle-to-grid, or V2G, charging capabilities under a bill passed Aug. 31 by the California Senate. The bill would give CEC broad authority to determine the scope, timing and technical aspects of the bidirectional charging mandate and could in theory render California’s EV fleet capable of “providing …
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Categories: Articles, Climate, Energy
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Post-Kyoto Reflections. In this long essay (12 pages), C.R. (Buzz) Nixon provided a detailed explanation of what happened at the third Conference of the Parties (COP3) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), which took place in December 1997. 1997 Series 1 Number 24 Page 9 Two and a half decades later, in 2024, with the Kyoto …
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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's New 2023 Scorecards of Electricity DistributorsThe OEB has published the 2023 Scorecards of Electricity Distributors. The scorecard measures how well Ontario’s electricity distributors are performing each year. Scorecards
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Causing environmental damage should be a criminal offence, say 72% of people in...
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The roundtable on the Human future - July 2024
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“THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA”, BY HAZEL HENDERSON Hazel Henderson© 2022 Mid the horrors of suffering of innocent Ukrainian children, and as one who personally experienced my childhood in air raid shelters, sirens, whistling of exploding bombs in the Battle of Britain, now is the time, as in this new book The Dawn of a New Era of …
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The energy industry loves a shiny new object. Something that produces hope for slowing the impacts of climate change, or an innovation that shatters preconceived limitations of The Grid. Distributed energy resource management systems, or DERMS, land squarely in that bucket. The software’s ability to autonomously control and communicate with millions of potential devices, while facilitating power market participation, could be the Swiss …
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As 'Extreme Heat Epidemic' Breaks Records, UN Asks Nations to Prepare Better. By Seth Borenstein & Sibi Arasu | News | July 25th 2024 After three of Earth's hottest days ever measured, the United Nations (UN) called for a flurry of efforts to try to reduce the human toll from soaring and searing temperatures, calling it “an extreme heat …
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The Food Industry––Good for Health or Bad for Health? Dr. Trevor Hancock Retired professor and senior scholar at the University of Victoria’s School of Public Health and Social Policy 13 February 2024 Originally published as “Reaching goal of Zero Hunger includes improving affordability of healthy food.” The tobacco industry sells a product that when used exactly as intended prematurely kills …
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Among the world's wealthiest countries, the United States leads the way in spending public money on so-called climate "solutions" that have been proven to "consistently fail, overspend, or underperform," according to an analysis released last month by the research and advocacy group Oil Change International (OCI). The group's report, titled Funding Failure, focuses on international spending on carbon capture and fossil-based …
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Kathryn brings her extensive editorial background to the Energy News Network team, where she oversees the early-morning production of ENN’s five email digest newsletters as well as distribution of ENN’s original journalism with other media outlets. (a good summary of what happened last week)
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Methane emissions are rising faster than ever!
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