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Stay Informed
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CACOR's weekly newsletter
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Welcome to Stay Informed, CACOR's weekly newsletter.
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It contains all the latest updates to the CACOR Website. Signup and previous weekly newsletters are available here.
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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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Art Hunter, CACOR director of the Communications Committee, made a presentation to the Carleton Federal Liberal Association (CFLA) on microgrids and what is happening around the world but not in Ontario. This technology is coming but not until political will opens the door. PDF of presentation slides... https://youtu.be/qRax6Pg_I0Y
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Dr. Jack Alpert Topic: Civilization's “Running Out of Gas” Story Time: Apr 26, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82951104122?pwd=T3p0RlA4TFArV2JtMFpWRG9hR2hmdz09 Meeting ID: 829 5110 4122 Passcode: 501721 Summary: 8 billion people live today because energy and materials can produce their food and services. If in 80 years fossil fuels cannot …
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Life is tough and will “trim” you to make you better, faster, stronger, smarter The Trick is to keep your Dreams and Passions alive while this happens Wine vines must be trimmed for a bountiful harvest of grapes Today we are going to connect a beautiful winery tour I went on in Kelowna to a very funny British comedy movie …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. J.M. Power
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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CLIMATE AND NATURE 5 ways businesses can implement the new Global Biodiversity Framework Feb 21, 2023 The Global Biodiversity Framework sets out ambitious targets and businesses play a key role. Image: Unsplash/Scotty Turner OUR IMPACT What's the World Economic Forum doing to accelerate action on Climate and Nature? THE BIG PICTURE Explore and monitor how Biodiversity is affecting economies, industries and global issues The …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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Surface limitations facing the expansion of photovoltaics in Germany have led to a bold vision: installing PV arrays along motorways and creating a vast DC smart grid in the process. The plan could even be implemented across Europe. In addition to floating PV arrays and agrivoltaic systems, motorways could be an ideal solution for the surface problem of photovoltaics. …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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"For more than a decade, Makarieva has championed a theory, developed with Victor Gorshkov, her mentor and colleague at the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI), on how Russia's boreal forests, the largest expanse of trees on Earth, regulate the climate of northern Asia. It is simple physics with far-reaching consequences, describing how water vapor exhaled by trees drives winds: winds …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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Architect Chris Benedict is on a rooftop in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn, New York, explaining to a camera how energy recovery ventilators provide fresh air without losing heat. It’s windy, it has been raining, and everything is soaking wet, but she forges on with her message: decarbonizing our drafty, aging building stock is one of the most critical problems …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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The federal budget provides an estimated $80 billion for clean technologies but doesn't shift support offered to oil and gas. By Mitchell Beer An array of new tax credits for clean energy development and a pledge to secure Canada’s place in a global green economy are at the centre of this year’s federal budget, released Tuesday afternoon by Deputy Prime …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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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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Calgary Co-op is taking steps to enrich our member communities and invest in our planet. We’re excited to share a few of the initiatives that we think the planet, and you, our members will appreciate. We’re capturing harmful carbon emissions and converting them into all-natural, beautifully scented biodegradable soaps. Calgary Co-op is the only grocery store in Western Canada to …
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Tesla has released a very detailed update on its 4680 battery cell program, which is expected to be critical for its future electric vehicles. The 4680 battery cell format has taken the industry by storm since Tesla unveiled its own cell strategy at Battery Day in 2020. The automaker claimed a potential to reduce battery cost by over 50% with …
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How Microgrids, Storage and EVs Can Help Accelerate the Modernize the Power Grid Through Electrifying the Economy - Graphic Edition This presentation on Microgrids is broken down into some of its many major parts that must work together as a system Section 1 – Grids and Microgrids Section 2 – Geothermal Section 3 – Solar, Wind, & Storage Section 4 – …
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An excellent explanation of Climate Balancing By Geoff Strong is found here. Our weather systems, for example are in dynamic balance; for example, a developing storm reaches a limit defined by the physics, thermodynamics, and the topography, so that storms never continue to develop and expand out of control, say to cover half the Earth. Nature is such that the …
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This dramatic shift in the transportation sector presents an opportunity. Cars don’t have to just be cars anymore—they could actually be used to strengthen and enhance the nation’s energy infrastructure. But making this a reality within the next decade will require careful planning in how—where and when—drivers charge their electric vehicles. If left unmanaged, electric vehicles will strain the grid, …
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Most utility leaders believe their companies have a broad role to play with microgrids, yet say they face deterrents that prevent them from playing their rightful role. Core concerns include: Costs, capital and financing Regulatory barriers Technology risks Customer interest Fit with the utility business model Support from key stakeholders and management Finding the right partners When utilities are deterred …
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In natural history programs, if you just show what animals do, the conflict animals have, the problems that animals have, the way they interact, how birds fly, how they court, what insects are doing to the trees. All these are interesting stories, and people are potentially really interested in them, no question about that. The temptation is just to show …
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