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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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To CACOR Members:
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Four CACOR members have volunteered to make occasional posts into our Breaking News listing.
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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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Title: The Electric Throttle for our Energy Transition 20 Advantages of Community Microgrids Introduction: After nearly a decade of study, design, development, operations and living in a single home microgrid while interacting with grid managers and delivering presentations, the presenter continues monitoring the world as it makes exponentially growing advances in electrifying everything. Aggregation of multiple single building microgrids leads …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Walter Knitl Topic: Sustainability through the Internet of Things and AI. Time: May 17, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88680415461?pwd=R2ZkQlQ5QmNLeGhGemRRbzVsOXJjdz09 Meeting ID: 886 8041 5461 Passcode: 172138 Summary: We are amid a global climate crisis brought on by humanity exceeding the earth's sustainable atmospheric and biospheric capacity – compelling, …
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By Jeff St. John David Deon doesn’t downplay the challenge trucking companies will face in complying with California’s sweeping new mandate to decarbonize its trucking sector. But as president of Velocity Truck Rental & Leasing, a major provider of commercial trucks, he is preparing to help them do it. “I believe zero-emissions vehicles are the future. You can’t ignore it,” he said. And now that the …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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Thawing permafrost may unleash industrial pollution across the Arctic Climate change threatens to cause toxic substances from thousands of sites to flow free By Nikk Ogasa APRIL 26, 2023 AT 8:00 AM As the Arctic’s icebound ground warms, it may unleash toxic substances across the region. By the end of the century, the thaw threatens to destabilize facilities at more …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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CACOR member N. (Fred) Németh explored our continuing inability to avoid wars. He surmised that we needed to be able to resolve our conflicts so that we can get to the essential job of protecting the ecosphere. Link to | Global Conflict Resolution.
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers
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Could and Should GAIA worship become a new religion? Let start with a definition of “God”: the mystery, the unknown, the unknowable, your highest priority, what guides your decision making, that which creates common values within a society and allows for trust and cooperation, the meaning between the lines, the negative space of physical reality, the beyond rational, that which …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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Protesting is an act of love. It is born of a deeply held conviction that the world can be a better, kinder place. Saying "no" to injustice is the ultimate declaration of hope. Amy Goodman, investigative journalist, columnist, and author (b. 1957)
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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TABLE 40, From page 277. AVERAGE DIETARY ENERGY SUPPLY (KCAL PER CAPITA PER DAY) World (Average per capita) 2000–2002: 2 711 2004–2006: 2 742 2009–2011: 2 831 2013–2015: 2 894 2014–2016: 2 911 2015–2017: 2 923 2016–2018: 2 934 2017–2019: 2 945 2018–2020: 2 950 (Editorial comment) These highly variable numbers suggest a flattening of the curve although the per capita …
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Categories: Analysis, Articles, CACOR Groups
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Europeans are increasingly concerned about the climate crisis and are willing to support both personal and government-led measures to combat it, according to a recent YouGov survey. However, the level of support decreases as the measures become more likely to impact their lifestyles. The survey, conducted across seven countries including the UK, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, and Italy, tested …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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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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Sodium cells will be the (near) future for about 80% of the EVs. Much cheaper. More cycles than NCM but probably a little less than LFP. Sodium cells allow high currents, which means fast charging. And sodium cells are less sensitive for low temperatures than LFP cells and are not prone to thermal runaway. Yes, gravimetric and volumetric energy density …
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Should we worry about overpopulation or, as Elon Musk has argued, should we worry more about underpopulation? How many people could live on our planet and how close are we to reaching the "Limits to Growth"? In this video we look at how much we know and what we can conclude from this. The full interview with Elon Musk is …
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Paul Beckwith states: About ten years ago Alex Smith called me for the first time to invite me on his radio program “EcoShock Radio” or “Radio EcoShock”; I always interchange the two words. Since then, I’ve chatted with Alex on his program two or sometimes three times per year. I’ve always thought that his interviews are the best, since he …
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DID HUMANS ALREADY BREAK THE WEATHER? A tornado destroys Rolling Fork, Mississippi. Not just any tornado. Some people found it’s track for 90 miles (145 kilometers). The U.S. Weather Service counts 59 miles of tornado damage along the ground (95 kilometers)––all struck with powerful EF4 strength. Are tornadoes worse due climate change? Yes, but not the way you think. We …
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Sweden’s early shift from fossil-fueled heating to electric heat pumps suggests a carrot-and-stick approach of incentives and regulation could help Canadians achieve the lowered costs and 95% drop in building heating emissions that Swedes have enjoyed since the 1990s. “In the 1970s, three-quarters of Swedish homes were heated with oil boilers,” reports CBC News. Now, electric-powered heat pumps have almost entirely …
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Arctic temperatures are rising as much as four times faster than the global average, and we've all heard about the reduction in the surface area of sea ice. Now a new study has identified an abrupt decrease in the thickness of ice too. But what are the consequences and why should we care?
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