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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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Samrat Bharadwaj recently posted some creative YouTube Short videos
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Welcome to the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome. How can we become more relevant to your mission? More pertinent news items will be posted here from time to time.
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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. Carmen Hust and Gordon Kubanek Topic: Social Density Stress as a Missing Limit to Growth. Time: Time: Jul 19, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary Consider the possibility that Chronic Social Density Stress should be included as one of the key Limits to Growth. Social and psychological issues affect our ability to honestly face our challenges and may be …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Dr. Madeline Weld Topic: Is Natural Population Decline a Concern? Time: Jul 26, 2023, 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85999726070?pwd=UDV1QXU1MEFuTGl5OEtSazhkYUlFUT09 Meeting ID: 859 9972 6070 Passcode: 755526 Summary: Natural population decline is examined considering collisions with the neoliberal economic systems of perpetual growth. Further, the impacts of an aging …
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Saving the World and your Sanity through Co-housing and Multi-generational living Authentic Belonging means you can finally become who you really are Who are you? Who am I? Are you living an authentic life? Am I? The honest answer: probably not. Have you sold your soul to the Devil to achieve material “success”? Have I? The honest answer: probably yes. …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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Surviving a drought may help forests weather future dry spells After a drought, California’s forests withstood a second one surprisingly well Conifer forests in California hurt by a severe drought in the late ’90s and early 2000s weathered a second severe dry spell about a decade later better than forests that hadn’t experienced the earlier drought, a new study finds. …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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"The earthquakes that struck southeastern Turkey and northern Syria in early February 2023 have killed at least 47,000 people and disrupted everyday life for some 26 million more. "Survivors of big disasters like these earthquakes – among the worst in the region’s history – certainly need food, water, medications, blankets and other goods. But they also need psychological first aid – that is, …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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This is an essay by Don Chisholm based on the manuscript entitle A Troubleshooter's Analysis of the Human Predicament. Don concluded that we have to modify the way we govern ourselves, the way we think of ourselves--our worldview needs to be transformed for us to survive. He suggested the people of an enligthened nation (he was thinking of Canada) could …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers
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By Teju Ravilochan Some months ago, I was telling my friend and GatherFor Board Member Roberto Carlos Rivera that I had come across unpublished papers by Abraham Maslow suggesting changes to his famous Hierarchy of Needs. Roberto, Executive Director of Alliance for the 7th Generation, was familiar with the subject and turned me on to something else I didn’t know: Maslow’s …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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This series of visualizations shows how some of Earth's key climate indicators are changing over time. The concept and research conducted by Randal Jackson and Holly Shaftel focused on six areas: sea ice sea level carbon dioxide global temperature ice sheets ocean warming For more information and to view the interactive, visit NASA's Global Climate Change website.
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly, a healthy society permits more satirical comments than a repressive one, so if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility …
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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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Jim Massa - "effects and impacts that burning fossil fuels have on marine life. As I extensively wrote in the recently published paper, there are several major factors that cause mass extinction events (MEEs) in the oceans. Increase in ocean temperatures, Increasing acidity, decreasing oxygen levels, decreasing (primary) productivity, increasing stratification. One or two of these is sufficient to result …
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Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The Jarawas, an indigenous tribe of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands have been inhabiting the islands for over 2,000 years. Contact with the outside world had put them at risk of deadly diseases including cholera, typhoid and measles. Since late 90’s, Dr Ratan Chandra Kar, alumnus of NRSC Medical College in Kolkata, treated and protected the …
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Human impacts prior to the Industrial Revolution are not well constrained. We investigate whether the decline in global atmospheric CO2 concentration by 7–10 ppm in the late 1500s and early 1600s which globally lowered surface air temperatures by 0.15∘C, were generated by natural forcing or were a result of the large-scale depopulation of the Americas after European arrival, subsequent land use …
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A home battery is a perfect companion to your solar installation, and this video details 5 reasons why Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:33 Daily Usage Consumption vs Solar Generation 2:16 Level 1 - Load Shifting 6:01 Level 2 - Time of Use Tariffs 12:26 Level 3 - Plunge Pricing 16:01 Level 4 - Demand Flexibility Schemes 19:30 Level 5 - Virtual …
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It’s not just flooding in Vermont, Japan, and Mexico, new study documents deluge rains to Greenland
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Wilo has revealed its new hydrogen microgrid system, the H2Powerplant, integrating electrolysis, storage, and fuel cells to offer decentralized clean power. The German company has had the system in operation at its headquarters, the Wilopark in Dortmund, and will now roll it out to all of its locations while making it available to market in a modular arrangement for varying …
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The letter below, published in the Globe today, is an example of advocacy by the Group of 78. Roy Culpepper does this several times a year. Doing this at his initiative means that he can respond promptly to an item published by a newspaper, an important criterion for successful letter-writers. I find that newspapers are a bit like politicians, they tend …
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Just Have a Think Solid state batteries? When will they ever actually arrive? Well, according to a Florida based start up called Amptricity, they have arrived already and they are available right now for delivery to your home in 2023. So has this news caused Elon Musk to quake in his entrepreneurial boots, or is the marketing hype getting a …
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A study published today in Current Biology is the first to examine the environmental effects of mining cobalt-rich crusts. These rock-hard, metallic layers, which form on the side of underwater mountains called seamounts, are among three deep-sea resources that have been proposed to the ISA as a target for mining. In 2020, a two-hour operation funded by the Japanese government …
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Elon Musk Unveiled All You Need To Know About Super Tesla Model 2! (MIX) How does Tesla manage to make a super affordable hatchback with the same quality as priced SUVs? Musk said at Tesla’s Annual Shareholders Meeting. He also claimed that new car would be head and shoulders above anything else that is present in the industry in terms …
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