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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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The latest CACOR Zoom Schedule is found 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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Speaker: Dr. Meg Sears Topic: Sustainable Agriculture: Lessons from the 1930s-on, to inform a 2023 Strategy and Partnership. Time: Jun 21, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Orange skies & choking smoke expose Canada’s vulnerabilities. Climate chaos threatens food security, floods, droughts, & desertification. This spring, the GoC announced a Sustainable Agriculture Partnership, but regenerative organic agricultural practices are absent, & …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Ruben Nelson Topic: What Can We Make of the Alberta Election? Implications for Canada. Time: Jun 28, 2023, 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83958687745?pwd=aW1Ic09UT3BFU2VaQzJQeHoxcDgrdz09 Meeting ID: 839 5868 7745 Passcode: 151038 Summary: Is the political froth that marks Alberta politics today, just froth? Or is it a sign …
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What does the success of Mennonites in Belize tell us? An examination of a sustainable way of life. Mennonite boys in Belize selling drinks to tourists My brother, a Mennonite from Manitoba, is currently in Belize helping with a charity that supports orphans from Haiti. Due to the violence there they have had to move their orphans to a safe …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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Scientists are baffled why the oceans are warming so fast By Scott Dance June 14, 2023 at 12:42 p.m. EDT A steady and remarkable rise in average global ocean temperatures this year is now outpacing anything seen in four decades of satellite observations, causing many scientists to suddenly blare alarm over the risks and realities of climate change. But even …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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April 29, 2023 "Human activity is deemed to be outside the “safe operating space” for at least six out of the nine so-called planetary boundaries: biodiversity loss, chemical and plastic pollution, forest cover loss, freshwater consumption, greenhouse-gas emissions, and nutrient pollution. To mitigate rising environmental risks and create opportunity for financial returns, businesses must consider investing in nature: “You can …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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As you know, the standard silicon photovoltaic solar cell is the black-and-copper solar panel you can find on suburban rooftops and solar farms born and raised in America in 1950. Currently, 90 percent of the world’s solar panels are made from crystalline silicon, and the industry continues to grow at about 30 percent per year. Now, what if we told …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. Abraham Joshua Heschel, rabbi and professor (1907-1972)
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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Just 100 of all the hundreds of thousands of companies in the world have been responsible for 71% of the global GHG emissions that cause global warming since 1998, according to The Carbon Majors Database, a report recently published by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), throwing light on the role companies and investors play in tackling climate change. CDP is …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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John H. Walsh prepared this paper for a meeting of CACOR in October 1995. He explained that a malaise had gripped Canada because of economic policies over the previous two decades. Few people felt their children would be better off than they had been, the wealth gap had widened, and the social safety net was falling apart. He felt there …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers
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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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By Julian Cribb Jun 24, 2023 While much of humanity was glued to the unfolding drama over one tiny submarine, the Earth we all inhabit is slowly, steadily and implacably imploding around us. Ocean temperatures are raging off the scale, icecaps are melting and seas rising, forests are ablaze across continents, ‘heat bombs’ in heavily populated regions are pushing them into …
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Good news! Tesla will have the heft to finally push wireless into the mainstream. (I wish more effort had been put into this article as it reads like the author hasn't been paying attention to the wireless space since about a decade ago. Transfer efficiencies have now basically closed the gap with wired charging. Or at least so close it's …
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Just Have A Think An abrupt collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, was the plotline for the 2004 hit movie 'The Day After Tomorrow'. Thankfully the apocalyptic scenes depicted in that film are not going to happen, but the AMOC system has been weakening for decades and it is likely to grind to a halt at some …
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There’s a long-running debate in the home-electrification space: Can homes of the future, equipped with solar, battery and digital energy controls, work with cobbled-together technologies from different vendors? Or does the market need vertically integrated systems that can handle the complexity of emergency backup power, utility bill shaving, and virtual power plant participation for customers and contractors — even if …
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Switching to an EV, heat pump, heat pump water heater, and induction stove could cut your carbon emission by more than 80% and save you $5,000 per year As more people become concerned by the heat waves, forest fires, and flooding exacerbated by climate change, they're switching their carbon-emitting home appliances for electric, emissions-free alternatives. The impact of millions of …
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As wildfires rage across the country, the need for Canada to move away from its reliance on fossil fuels — a major driver of climate change, which has exacerbated this year’s fires — is becoming increasingly urgent. To meet its climate targets, the government of Canada has mandated that all new passenger vehicles must be electric by 2035 — an …
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Entropy. The second law of thermodynamics says that entropy will inevitably increase. Eventually, it will make life in the universe impossible. What does this mean? And is it correct? In this video, I sort out what we know about the arrow of time and why I don't believe that entropy will kill the universe.
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Hyundai Motor will consider making its vehicles more readily compatible with the charging standard Tesla is pushing for in North America, the South Korean automaker’s CEO said on Tuesday. Tesla’s Superchargers make up about 60% of available U.S. fast chargers and Ford and General Motors have in recent weeks struck deals with Tesla to use its charging technology, now dubbed the North American …
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As countries around the world strive to achieve net-zero carbon emissions targets, the role of microgrids in this transition is becoming increasingly important. Microgrids, small-scale power grids that can operate independently or in conjunction with the main electrical grid, offer a promising solution to the challenges of integrating renewable energy sources, improving energy efficiency, and enhancing grid resilience. By enabling …
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Our speaker today is Darrel Rowledge, a public policy analyst who investigates the causes of crises. He is known for his research & advocacy on issues related to domestication & disease. He presented to the 2018 One Health Congress on the factors causing most human diseases, including the novel coronavirus (SARS2). He predicted & has been fighting the policy disaster of chronic …
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