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Stay Informed
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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: Darrel Rowledge Topic: Saving humanity — from itself: the case for a paradigm change. Time: Jun 7, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Everywhere we look, we find that humanity’s problems are caused by humans. Every thread we pull leads inevitably back to us, to our systems. What’s worse, these systems are dysfunctional by design. Solving man-made problems requires changing the …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Diana Beresford-Kroeger Topic: Forests and Climate Change Time: Jun 14, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89527463284?pwd=N2JFRmdtY2xBNDVEY0NLeS9reWZyUT09 Meeting ID: 895 2746 3284 Passcode: 368651 Summary: There is a trinity attached to climate change. It operates all over planet Earth, in the water, on the land, and in the atmosphere. The …
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Time to Charge your Batteries! Doing nothing often leads to the very best of something. – Winnie the Pooh Well folks, I am at a Franciscan retreat centre in Phoenix recharging my batteries. There is no smoke from forest fires here – only blue skies, hot sun, 100 F temperatures, lots of cactuses and a swimming pool to relax into. …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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Global fertility has collapsed, with profound economic consequences What might change the world’s dire demographic trajectory? Jun 1st 2023 In the roughly 250 years since the Industrial Revolution the world’s population, like its wealth, has exploded. Before the end of this century, however, the number of people on the planet could shrink for the first time since the Black Death. The root cause …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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Vast releases of gas, along with future ‘methane bombs’, represent huge threat – but curbing emissions would rapidly reduce global heating ‘We don’t feel safe’: US community in shock after record methane leak "More than 1,000 'super-emitter' sites gushed the potent greenhouse gas methane into the global atmosphere in 2022, the Guardian can reveal, mostly from oil and gas facilities. …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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Whether you are an investor, a business person, or a concerned citizen, the Drawdown Roadmap can help you accelerate climate actions that best fit your interests and capabilities and have the greatest possible impact on things you care about most. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcg-jD7FFf8 Learn more about Project Drawdown.
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. I do not mean by humility, doubt of his own powers. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful. John Ruskin, …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist. Kenneth Boulding (1910-1993) Cited by Brian Czech in his CACOR Zoom presentation on 2023 January 11 Kenneth Ewart Boulding was an English-born American economist, educator, peace activist, and interdisciplinary philosopher.
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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Greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, prevent infrared radiation from escaping to outer space. This warms the surface of the earth. More greenhouse gas means more warming. Simple enough! Alas, if you look at the numbers, it turns out that most infrared radiation is absorbed almost immediately above the ground, already at pre-industrial greenhouse gas levels. So how …
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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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“There were some pretty crazy proposals about directly supporting the development of fossil fuel generation. It was almost like there was a religious war over fossil fuels or clean energy and a lot of oddly reasoned blame being thrown around about what caused Uri or other big grid disruptions,” During its tumultuous legislative session, the Texas Legislature May 29 passed SB …
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'He has no plan': Trudeau accuses opposition of inaction as 'Canada burns'
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Re “Cutting oil and gas production would be a terrible way to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions” (June 3): Not really. Not for those who understand that unlimited economic growth on a finite planet is not possible. The cumulative combustion of fossil fuels – since James Watt invented the first thermodynamically and economically efficient steam engine in 1776 – leaves the planet …
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Hotter temperatures and reduced rainfall will also worsen the region’s dreaded haze May 17th 2023 When asked about the secret behind Singapore’s transformation from fishing village to flourishing metropolis, Lee Kuan Yew, the city-state’s founding prime minister, credited air conditioning. It made “development possible in the tropics”, he said. These days, amid a sweltering heatwave, Singaporeans are more thankful than ever …
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OPEN LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER CALLS FOR URGENT ACTION TO MEET CLIMATE TARGETS Scientists from around the world are raising the alarm on the impacts of industrial logging on Canada’s ability to meet its climate targets. In an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over 90 scientists are calling for the government to better protect Canada’s climate-critical primary forests …
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Our bodies instinctually respond to the movements and rhythms of nature, like the uplifting feeling you get when walking in a forest. Can art evoke the same emotions? Experiential artist Lonneke Gordijn takes us through her studio's stunning, nature-inspired work -- flowering lights, murmurating drones -- and reveals a mysterious piece hiding in the shadows of the TED Theater that …
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Canada’s conservatives have spent decades denying the fundamental scientific reality of climate change and disputing the central role human activity plays in creating and exacerbating it. But as those arguments became increasingly untenable with the public, they’ve had to retreat to attacking the proposed solutions for it, most notably carbon pricing. Now, it seems, they’ve landed on a new explanation …
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Electricity capacity in Ontario may not be enough to meet demand this summer, warn two energy authorities. This situation would force the province to depend on other states or provinces. The Windsor-Essex region in the South West is particularly at risk of power shortages due to the growth of its industrial sector. At its peak this summer, Ontario could consume …
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E-mobility is advancing at an increasing pace, emerging as the reference model in the automotive sector. If electronics play a fundamental role in the architecture of electric vehicles, artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming an essential component—especially for monitoring and managing the state of charge (SOC) and state of health (SOH) of an EV’s battery. AI technologies are currently used to …
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LATHAM, N.Y., June 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Plug Power Inc. (NASDAQ: PLUG), a leading provider of turnkey hydrogen solutions for the global green hydrogen economy, announced it will supply Energy Vault Holdings, Inc. with 8 MW (megawatts) of hydrogen fuel cell stationary power to deliver clean energy to the city of Calistoga, located in California Wine Country, during times of wildfires …
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