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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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Speaker: Michael Dowd Topic: The Big Picture: Beyond Hope and Fear Time: 3 May 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: No one needs convincing that we are living in an age of chaos and breakdowns. Even those without an ecological understanding of history feel the stress. How do we cope? How can we escape the seesaw of hope and fear? …
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Topic: Public confidence on the road to net zero: a key ingredient for emissions reductions success. Speaker: Dr. Monica Gattinger Time: May 10, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Meeting ID: 892 0215 8096 Passcode: 236278 Join the Meeting : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89202158096?pwd=cEJmMGpPd0tKc2tjaWNVVVVBNXZHQT09 Summary: Canada is at a pivotal moment on energy and climate: there is far greater consensus about the …
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"New computer systems aim to peer inside our heads—and to help us fix what they find there. By Dhruv Khullar "In the nineteen-sixties, Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer scientist at M.I.T., created a computer program called Eliza. It was designed to simulate Rogerian therapy, in which the patient directs the conversation and the therapist often repeats her language back to her... "Weizenbaum …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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Ordinary Heroes: The Poet - Mary Oliver Don’t Hesitate If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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Positive environmental stories from 2023 so far Our favourite positive environmental story from 2022: World's oldest two-headed tortoise celebrates 25th birthday. - Copyright REUTERS/Pierre Albouy By Euronews Green • Updated: 25/04/2023 We're going to be regularly updating this page with good news about our planet in an effort to combat climate anxiety. Eco-anxiety, climate doom, environmental existential dread - as green journalists, we see these terms …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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Thomas Beery, Guest Editor (Faculty of Education, Man and the Biosphere Research Group, Kristianstad University, Kristianstad, Sweden) "Dear Colleagues, "Ongoing social science understanding of climate change is critical for addressing the complexity and seriousness of the climate crisis. While the study of climate change is inherently interdisciplinary, we wish to acknowledge that the drivers of greenhouse gas emissions are rooted …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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This essay by H.E. Károly Gedai was presented to CACOR at a luncheon in March, 1995, and was subtitled Crisis, Challenges, and Opportunities. Mr. Gedai was the Hungarian Ambassador to Canada at the time. The main argument was that it was our long-term obligation to find peaceful ways to resolve our myriad economic, social, and environmental challenges of the day, …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers
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Instead of the branches and shattered portions of tree trunks left behind at logging operations being burned, the company told the public, the local town council, the provincial government and others that the material would be trucked to town to make pellets. But what was promised and what was delivered are two very different things. Local resident and longtime provincial …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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Oh, the comfort -- the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person -- having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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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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A follow-up to Rev. Michael Dowd's "Main Drivers of Collapse, Ecocide, and Likely NTHE" video, this 44-minute video makes the rather audacious claim that each of the four main drivers of collapse: (1) Civilization, (2) Science & Technology, (3) Progress & Development, and (4) Growth Economics arise from and remain grounded in anthropocentrism (human-centeredness), which is itself caused by being …
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In a talk from the cutting edge of technology, OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman explores the underlying design principles of ChatGPT and demos some mind-blowing, unreleased plug-ins for the chatbot that sent shockwaves across the world. After the talk, head of TED Chris Anderson joins Brockman to dig into the timeline of ChatGPT's development and get Brockman's take on the risks, …
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Tesla Energy will soon overtake Tesla Auto in earnings.
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Just 10 countries of 178 nations are meeting the basic needs of their citizens in a sustainable way, according to a new study that looks at the water use and carbon emissions of 178 nations. They are both using water and producing carbon emissions at a sustainable rate, while also meeting the basic needs of their citizens, according to the …
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Are we separate and superior to nature? This question has been a driving force behind humanity's industrialization and economic progress for centuries -- but it's brought us to the brink of an ecological crisis, says filmmaker Damon Gameau. In an impassioned talk, he calls for a new story that recognizes our interconnectedness with nature and moves towards a thriving, regenerative …
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Electric Vehicles (EVs) may significantly affect the stability of microgrids. To incorporate EVs with Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) capability into the frequency control, existing approaches have primarily focused on the charge level of batteries to derive the participation level of individual EVs. However, examining only the State of Charge (SoC) does not provide an effective evaluation measure to distinguish between EVs with …
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After three years of La Niña in the South Pacific supressing the effects of global warming, the ENSO system is now turning towards El Niño conditions, which do the exact opposite. According to the worlds meteorological agencies, this El Niño is shaping up to become a potential record breaker – and not in a good way. So, what's happening and …
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Tesla is working on their 3rd platform now for cybertruck and their $15k next gen vehicle. The key innovation relates back to the original GM skateboard. Steer by wire. No drive shaft, no steering column, all by wire. Put that on top of the structural battery pack skateboard design and you can now build the whole car in modules and …
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