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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. Please share our Stay Informed link with your personal networks.
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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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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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Do you want to contact your Federal MP or Senator?
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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. David Lapen Topic: Reducing the environmental footprint of agriculture via nature-based activities and beneficial management practices. Time: Aug 9, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: The environmental footprint of agriculture is considerable. Yet there are on and off-farm solutions that can reduce agriculture’s impact on the health of humans and the environment. Nature-based solutions, seizing the ecological goods …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Dr. Peter MacKinnon Topic: Artificial Intelligence is on the Rampage: A Call for Guardrails & Regulation. Time: Aug 30, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87981719463?pwd=dWlTTTRoY2JGVGtwUTJldFZTblBtUT09 Meeting ID: 879 8171 9463 Passcode: 157623 Summary: The AI rampage started in the public eye less than a year ago with the release …
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We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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Giving Back to Live Well when we Retire It is in giving that we receive – St. Francis of Assisi I am retired and so in my minds eye these words are primarily directed to an older audience. However, since we all get old, what you read here may also be of interest to younger readers. Right now I am …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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The Calm Before the Storm The calm before the storm Was what I felt today The silence was so perfect That it filled me with foreboding Yet when I looked all around me All I saw was peace and beauty Then suddenly over the mountain top a flash of sheet lightning blinded me And froze me like a deer in …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854 – 1900
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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If we lack the empathy to see global existential threats through the eyes of our children, we are badly failing in our responsibilities as ancestors. Is not this the greatest of all crimes against humanity… risking the continuity of our own species?
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Garth Mihalcheon, member of CACOR, has a passion for philosophy and critical thinking.
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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Nature Bats Last, Guy McPherson "On the afternoon of 27 July 2023 I again spoke with radio personalities Michelle Witte and John Kiriakou on Political Misfits radio. We discussed hot marine waters off the Florida coast within the context of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Our conversation begins at the 39:40 mark." Hear the full interview at the 39:40 mark here.
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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By Kathy Hitchens Founded in late 2022, Swedish startup Solar Power Accelerator has hit the ground running. The company has announced that it’s just commissioned its first greenfield microgrid in Lomma, Sweden. Solar-as-a-service Solar Power Accelerator is a Swedish microgrid developer that installs commercial utility scale rooftop solar. It’s expected that the Lomma microgrid will immediately generate revenue for the …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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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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Ottawa Citizen 11 Aug 2023 MOHAMMED ADAM Mohammed Adam is an Ottawa journalist and commentator. Reach him [email protected]. Even with the promise of a full return to service of the Confederation Line next week, it is hard to find a silver lining in Ottawa's unprecedented LRT cock-up. For one, we do not know for certain that the fix OC Transpo, …
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During the first day of the Amazon Summit - the consensus points of Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, drawing upon contributions from civil society highlighted during the Seminar on Sustainable Development of the Amazon, which took place in May in Brasília, and from federal government agencies. This declaration embeds a series of commitments that encompass overarching …
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TORONTO, Aug. 8, 2023 /CNW/ - On August 14, 2003 a blackout across the northeast left more than 50 million people across eight U.S. states and most of Ontario without power. The Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) is the provincial agency that operates Ontario's power grid in real-time, and led the system restoration efforts from its operations control centre. As Reliability Co-ordinator for the province, the IESO oversees …
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There's an art to writing effective chatbot prompts to get the results you want from your friendly neighborhood AI. Here's how to up your prompt-writing game. Let's dive a bit deeper into the arcane art of AI prompt writing. There be secrets here, for those who dare enter.
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How many times does Mother Nature have to slap us in the face before we wake up? Knoxdale-Merivale Councillor Sean Devine Ottawa received more than 77 millimetres of rainfall in six hours on August 10 CBC News, 2023 August 10
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Geoff Strong 1 and Richard van der Jagt 2 1 Climate scientist, Duncan BC; 2 Adjunct Prof. of Medicine, U of Ottawa ON Federal tax dollars directed to Carbon Capture and Storage at Source (CCS) are a direct subsidy to a very profitable but toxic fossil fuel industry. The Canadian government has poured billions into this unproven technology, ostensibly to …
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A new film by Cristóbal Santamaría, Diego Gamero, Manuel Novillo, and Solange Yépez. They met and learned about Darwin’s frog at the Santiago's WFAL, a training workshop for young Latin Americans. Worldwide, amphibians are going extinct — victims of habitat loss, climate change, pollution, and fungal diseases. Yet in Valdivian, temperate rainforest of southern Chile, Darwin’s frog persists in small …
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Everyone with an EV should want to maximize battery life. Understanding why Li-ion batteries degrade allows one to select operating regimes that minimize degradation and maximize battery life. Dr. Dahn explains the general rules of thumb for operating your EV to maximize battery life. At the end of the talk, he briefly touches on what we can expect from the …
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I expand on my last video on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) Shitdown and Catastrophic Consequences to Humanity. The key chain of events is as follows…. 1) Global warming hole south of Greenland and warming water off East coast of North America, isotopic analyses of sediments, physical monitoring of ocean column, and other proxies all show that the AMOC …
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Perhaps the deadliest pandemic ever to strike humanity is the plague of deliberate misinformation, mass delusion and unfounded beliefs which is engulfing 21st Century society. Whether generated by the fossil fuels lobby, certain media or other corporate interests, the anti-vaccine lobby, religious fanatics, politicians, ideological extremists, well-meaning simpletons or nutcase conspiracists, a global deluge of utter nonsense is rapidly inundating …
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