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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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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: Walter Knitl Topic: Sustainability through the Internet of Things and AI. Time: May 17, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: We are amid a global climate crisis brought on by humanity exceeding the earth's sustainable atmospheric and biospheric capacity – compelling, profound action to achieve a sustainable future. Success will depend on societal, industrial, and governmental collaboration and many other …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Dr. Robin Sleith Topic: Connectivity between freshwater and marine ecosystems Time: May 24, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83260332243?pwd=NXd3WGpSaWc3cC9MQmtPLzRxZHRtdz09 Meeting ID: 832 6033 2243 Passcode: 569096 Summary: This talk will explore the connectivity between freshwater and marine ecosystems, using the ongoing Maine-eDNA project as a guide. …
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Ordinary Heroes: The Gardener - Peter Berti “Ordinary Heroes” is a series of interviews about ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Some people wiser than me claim that to live a life that is truly lived, a life that is beyond existing, a person must find their one gift, their one great talent and give it to the world as a …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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BRIEFING Why the world's oceans are suddenly getting hotter A temperature spike raises concerns among climate scientists Illustrated/Getty Images JOEL MATHIS MAY 1, 2023 The ocean is getting warmer, and fast. The BBC reports that "a recent, rapid heating of the world's oceans" has raised alarms among scientists who worry the sudden trend is a sign that climate change is accelerating. That …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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When I asked Thomas Merton for spiritual direction, he’d say, “How’s it going?” And I’d say, “I’m doing well!” And he’d say, “Don’t make much of it; it’ll get worse.” And other times I would go in really down about something. And he’d say, “Don’t make much of it; it’ll get better.” Life ebbs and flows, life ebbs and flows… …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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Dr. N. Gass described how there was more turbulence on the horizon for this region. The region was become unstable following the break-up of the Soviet Union. He saw no prospect for stability in the following five years (1995-2000). Link to | Will there ever be Peace in the Caucasus.
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers
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Adopted from Seth Klein’s book, A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency, Climate Emergency Unit developed a framework to determine whether governments or large institutions are in genuine emergency mode. 6 Markers of Climate Emergency Spend what it takes to win. Is the government willing and ready to budget and spend what’s necessary? Create new institutions to get …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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The Drawdown Roadmap is a science-based strategy for accelerating climate solutions. It points to which climate actions governments, businesses, investors, philanthropists, community organizations, and others should prioritize to make the most of our efforts to stop climate change. By showing how to strategically mobilize solutions across sectors, time, and place, engage the power of co-benefits, and recognize and remove obstacles, …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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A surge in illegal crossings from the United States has led to calls to shut down a rural road on the Canadian border. By Norimitsu Onishi Norimitsu Onishi reported from Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, and Cornwall, Ontario. March 2, 2023 Hélène Gravel’s house sits on Roxham Road near Canada’s most famous illegal border crossing, used by migrants leaving the United States to seek …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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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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Sometime during this century, it is highly likely that worldwide depletion of natural resources will force an entire reorganization of social and economic structures, perhaps violently.” — Walter Youngquist, ‘Our Plundered Planet’ The Tyee launches a new free newsletter with fresh reporting and curated must reads. Just in time for the big vote. We are going to have to dramatically …
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During my tenure as Auditor General, we have conducted many value-for-money audits on environment-related topics. In the course of that work, we have observed multiple changes made to legislation, regulations, operations, and the way issues affecting the environment have been addressed or not acted on. Actions to address the impacts of climate change, population growth, urban sprawl, and the desire …
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What do we know about the origins of life? From the formation of the solar system to microbes evolving into bipedal mammals with opposable thumbs, today we will look over the four major theories about how life began.
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The Truth about why Tesla chose Mexico for their next Gigafactory location and why Mexico is primed to take over global manufacturing in 2023.
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In this video, we explore Exxon's 'God Pod' and how it exploited workers and the environment. The 'God Pod' is Exxon's executive wing at the company's headquarters that has been used to describe the company's leadership style. We will discuss how this leadership style has led to exploitation of workers and the environment.
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How Big Oil is manipulating the way you think about climate change. A logic professor explains how a persistent, subtle fallacy has infected public discussion of climate change. In medieval times, gamekeepers trained dogs to the hunt by setting them on the trail of a dead rabbit they had dragged through the forest. Once the dogs were baying along the …
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Recycling ‘end-of-life’ solar panels and wind turbines is about to be climate tech’s big waste business. KEY POINTS As the Biden administration pushes for more wind power and solar energy, renewable energy industries will soon generate tons of waste. A wind turbine is recyclable, from the steel tower to the composite blades, typically 170 feet (52 m) long, but most …
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The $14-billion deal that will see Volkswagen, the world’s largest automaker, set up a manufacturing presence in Canada for the first time in history, took a year of negotiations on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Volkswagen has sold cars in Canada for decades, but it has never made them here. Still, like other large automakers, it is making the …
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