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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: Paul Beckwith Topic: Live Climate Change Updates from COP29 in Baku and much more… Time: 13 November 2024 Summary: - COP29 negotiation updates - Live from Baku - US election realities and impacts on climate - acceleration momentum of solar, wind, battery storage… - recent extreme weather/climate disruptions: California fires, Spain flooding, Hurricanes Helene and Mitch, Taiwan Hurricane, Cuba Hurricane… …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Dr. Ruth Waldick Topic: Is ‘going local’ the solution? Navigating climate adaptation in small, rural communities Time: Nov 20, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85781499714?pwd=dFhBSHhPcnMwbHFhdjhValYvNUJSZz09 Meeting ID: 857 8149 9714 Passcode: 431529 Summary: The literature is increasingly advocating for “bottom-up” and “community-led” climate adaptation. Yet, detailed …
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Elections change lots of things, but they don't change the laws of physics Andrew Steer President and CEO of Bezos Earth Fund
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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Eye on the Storm Extraordinarily warm ocean temperatures in the Atlantic are helping to fuel an unusually active hurricane season. by Jeff Masters November 13, 2024 October 2024 was Earth’s second-hottest October on record, according to an analysis of global data going back to 1850, NASA and NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information reported November 13. The month fell just 0.05 …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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Globalization and Governance: The View from the Chateau de la Muette. 1998 Series 1 Number 26 Page 5 Dr. Kimon Valaskakis was, at the time he wrote this paper, Ambassador of Canada at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The Chateau de la Muette, in Paris, was the headquarters of the OECD. In this essay, Dr. Valaskakis examined …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers
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Scientists have issued yet another clarion call regarding our seemingly unstoppable momentum toward climate catastrophe. In a recent article, The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth, some of the world’s leading climate scientists lay it out. By Patrick Mazza, originally published by The Raven October 31, 2024 “We are on the brink of an irreversible climate …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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We’re all Addicts I am supply teaching at a local Ottawa High School today and have made an obvious observation about human beings: we’re all addicts. The addiction I am observing today is cell phones – it’s so hard for the students here to turn them off. It doesn’t help that this particular school’s “interpretation” of the new provincial rule …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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A study from MIT highlights the positive impact of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations on local businesses. It demonstrates that businesses near these chargers experience increased sales, making the case for investing in EV infrastructure. The findings suggest that as EV adoption grows, so too could the economic ecosystem surrounding them.
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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Our Suicidal Culture Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem It’s a perfect day. So, being retired, I continued reading a perfectly written book - “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry” to make the perfect day completely perfect. Then, bang, on page 284 it happened: I learned that Harold’s son had committed suicide 20 years in the past. …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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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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Now awaiting action before the Virginia State Corporation Commission, the concept tries to resolve what’s known as the “last man standing” practice, which can heap massive costs on one developer. This happens when DER projects use up all of the hosting capacity at a location on a utility’s distribution grid, requiring physical upgrades to poles, wires, substations and software before …
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Another company has taken an even more risk-averse approach. Eavor, based in Calgary, Canada, calls its geothermal technology ‘advanced’ rather than ‘enhanced’, and foregoes fracking altogether. Instead, the company has developed a sophisticated magnetic guidance system, in which the drill heads from the two boreholes guide each other and form closed loops underground. “There’s no GPS when you are four …
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A Russian-controlled segment of the International Space Station is leaking, allowing pressure and air to bleed out. The situation has reached a fever pitch as cosmonauts scramble to patch problem areas and officials from Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, and NASA disagree about the severity of the problem. The football field-size space laboratory must remain pressurized and filled with breathable gases to host …
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A ‘Cop of peace’? How can authoritarian, human rights-trashing Azerbaijan possibly host that? The ‘theme’ chosen for Cop29 must be some kind of dark joke. This summit, like those before it, is a mere act of greenwashing Cop meetings have proven to be greenwashing conferences that legitimise countries’ failures to ensure a livable world and future and have also allowed …
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For utilities, VPPs are the Swiss Army knife of grid management. They act as shock absorbers for the grid, maintaining supply-demand balance and reducing blackout risks during peak usage and extreme weather. The potential is massive: VPPs could cut U.S. peak demand by 60 gigawatts by 2030, expanding to 200 GW by 2050. The financial benefits are equally compelling. By leveraging …
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A type of lithium-ion battery called lithium iron phosphate, or LFP, is becoming increasingly prevalent in EVs around the world. Manufacturers like Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Rivian, Tesla, and others are now offering these packs as an alternative to, or an outright replacement for, the nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) and nickel cobalt aluminum oxide (NCA) chemistries that have dominated for years. While LFP cells made …
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It’s already official: You’re living through the hottest year on record. According to the European Union's climate agency, 2024 is also the first year to breach a key climate threshold. Nine months ago, the oceans became bathwater. As historically hot sea temperatures forced corals to expel the microorganisms that keep them alive, the world endured its fourth mass coral bleaching …
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Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less dystopian and more real-world as companies like Waymo, the driverless arm of Google parent Alphabet, expand into more cities. And now Waymo is partnering with Hyundai in a multiyear deal that will bring the next generation of Waymo's technology into IONIQ 5 SUVs. In the years to come, riders will be able to summon the all-electric vehicles …
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The system that moves water around the Earth is off balance for the first time in human history. The water cycle refers to the complex system by which water moves around the Earth. (CNN) — Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance “for the first time in human history,” fueling a growing water disaster that will wreak havoc on economies, food …
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Megawatt Mosaic secures consent for BESS Visit https://megawattmosaic.com/ for further information Megawatt Mosaic, the BESS project developer, has secured planning consent and grid connection for a portfolio of four 99MW BESS sites in Italy - two in Sardinia and two in Tuscany - which will form part of the Tyrrhenian Link, a planned subsea transmission connection. (a very interesting mega …
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