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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 the SEED community:
Welcome to the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome.
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Everything we do to help humanity live in harmony with the natural world that gave rise to and sustains us gives our lives meaning and promise.
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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. Madeline Weld Topic: Is Natural Population Decline a Concern? Time: Jul 26, 2023, 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Natural population decline is examined considering collisions with the neoliberal economic systems of perpetual growth. Further, the impacts of an aging population are considered. Biography: Dr. Madeline Weld is president of Population Institute Canada (www.populationinstitutecanada.ca) which seeks to inform the …
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You are invited to a scheduled CACOR Zoom meeting. Speaker: Gordon Kubanek Topic: Beyond Denial – a Franciscan Perspective Time: Aug 2, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82827371244?pwd=YitINVV0Vi9NUHA5T1RkcU9Ya1lMQT09 Meeting ID: 828 2737 1244 Passcode: 550192 Summary We will explore how the path set by St. Francis can help us walk between the twin catastrophes of …
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Our Desire to Return to Normal: The Psychology of Reactance Normal is over. Admitting to it is another thing. Clearly the hordes of tourists in southern Europe have not admitted to it. Clearly the thousands moving to Florida every day have not admitted that Normal is over either – even when the water off Miami has been measured to be …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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NATURE AND ENVIRONMENTINDIA Keeping homes cool on a warming planet Natalie Muller | Neil King 06/27/2023June 27, 2023 Rising temperatures are leading to a surge in demand for cooling. But, ironically, the more we rely on energy-intensive air conditioners, the more the planet warms. What are the other options? Note: air conditioners shift heat.... in many countries cooling the rich while the …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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19 June 2023 By MICHELLE STARR "The impact of human activity on the Earth system could result in unpredictable chaos from which there is no return, physicists have calculated. "Using a theory conceived to model superconductivity, a team of physicists led by Alex Bernadini of the University of Porto in Portugal showed that, after a certain point, we will not be …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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"If the goal is to insure that the planet remains habitable, what is the right degree of panic, and how do you bear it? By Jia Tolentino July 10, 2023 ...“For years, you read all the articles,” Wehage told me recently, over the phone. “You look at pictures of the pollution, you think about the greed that fuels it, and you feel …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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Dunsky Energy + Climate Advisors is pleased to announce that our President, Philippe Dunsky, has been appointed Chair of the Government of Canada’s new Canada Electricity Advisory Council. The Council will act as an independent, electricity-sector focussed, evidence-based advisory body that will provide advice to the Minister of Natural Resources to accelerate investment and promote the growth of sustainable, affordable …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head. Theodore Roosevelt, (1858-1919) 26th US President
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Categories: Articles, Public Policy, Quotes
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In July 2023, the Chairperson of CACOR's Board of Directors, Jean Dougherty, wrote to Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change offering congratulations on a new policy to end subsidies for fossil fuel development. The government had just announced a change in policy whereby it would move to end some subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. Link to | Letter …
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Categories: Articles, 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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The IESO estimates that meeting this demand will cost $400 billion over the next 27 years, excluding the costs of converting households and businesses to electrify. Moreover, much of this investment is allocated to unproven prototype technologies, such as the construction of four 300-MW enriched uranium light-water reactors in Darlington. However, it should be noted that a global energy transition …
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Writer Fred Pearce reports on how, despite more than a century of logging, the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin has a thriving forest that has become a model for forest managers worldwide. Rather than harvest the best trees, the Menominee do the opposite. “We come in every 15 years, take out the weak trees, the sick trees, and the ones that …
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CACOR's Board of Directors has congratulated the Government of Canada on moving to end certain subsidies for fossil fuels. Letter to Minister Guilbeault on Fossil Fuel Subsidies. - Canadian Association for the Club of Rome (canadiancor.com)
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July 26 (Reuters) - Seven major automakers on Wednesday said they were forming a new company to provide electric vehicle charging in the U.S., in a challenge to Tesla (TSLA.O) and a bid to take advantage of Biden administration subsidies. The group includes General Motors (GM.N), Stellantis (STLAM.MI), Hyundai Motor (005380.KS) and its Kia affiliate, Honda (7267.T), BMW (BMWG.DE) and Mercedes Benz (MBGn.DE) - brands representing about half of U.S. vehicle …
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Yes, it stands to reason that the shift to electric vehicles and heat pumps will add new electricity consumption to the system. But there is a global energy transition underway, and while electrification is a central theme, so too is the development of technologies, materials and techniques that reduce the amount of electricity and the peak consumption required to meet the demand for …
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Edited by Martin Locret-Collet; Simon Springer; Jennifer Mateer and Maleea Acker Over the last several decades, scholars and practitioners have progressively acknowledged that we cannot consider cities as the place where nature stops anymore, resulting in urban environments being increasingly appreciated and theorized as hybrids between nature and culture. To view cities as entities- made of socio-ecological processes in constant …
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Just Have a Think The energy transition solutions of the 21st Century will take many forms, with a complex mix of different power producers. Moving energy across ever greater distances will overcome much of the intermittency of renewables like wind and solar. The way we will achieve that is via truly mind boggling high voltage direct current transmission systems. The …
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The following URL expresses well why slowing down and consuming less would be a better alternative than forever growing energy supplies to meet the seemingly endlessly rising demand. It compares current human actions with those of the animal people around the tar pits in California.
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"ongoing engagements with international and national debates on climate justice are a result of an intellectual journey over the past two decades that has brought me time and again to the complex intersections of environmental protection and social justice." About India "Markets are designed to facilitate the accumulation of surplus in the hands of those who can channel it higher …
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Just Have a Think Arctic temperatures are rising at least three times faster than the global average. That's causing a whole raft of very unwanted consequences in our global climate system. Now a new research paper has analysed the fundamental long term changes in the way heat is carried into the Arctic Ocean from the much warmer Pacific and Atlantic …
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