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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. It contains all the latest updates to the CACOR Website. Please share our Stay Informed link with your personal networks. That's also the place to catch up on previous newsletters if you missed them.
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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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Have you met CACOR's new AI Assistant yet? If not, it's not too late! You can find the AI Assistant in the bottom right corner of our website. Look for the little green icon:
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CACOR's AI Assistant is very friendly and knows a lot. In fact, it knows almost everything that has been posted on the website, which is about four thousand posts! Talk to our AI buddy about any topics related to CACOR's concerns. We hope you learn something new from it. If you have a minute, please send us feedback by replying to this email.
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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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Climate Proofing your Life Being Safe is being Prepared West Kelowna on Fire with downtown Kelowna in foreground, August 2023, where 2 of my daughters live The Climate Emergency is getting personal. Life has always been dangerous. Ask your ancestor as he/she was living in a cave as saber tooth tiger was outside growling. So the fact that life …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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The author Terry Lepage, a Pastor and hospice chaplain, asks: How can we facing climate and social chaos with calm and courage ? You can order the book in pdf of hard copy from the author directly or book distributors like Amazon. I prefer to buy direct from the author so she gets more of the total price. https://opendoorcommunication.org/eye/get-the-book "Fear …
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Categories: Book Reviews, CACOR Writers
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The extreme weather events of 2023 Extreme weather events are becoming more common thanks to climate change, and "they're affecting every corner of the world" The number of extreme weather events has seen a "staggering rise" in the past 30 years, said the United Nations, and experts warn climate change is "supercharging these extreme events," per The Associated Press. Intense heat as well …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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By Peter H. Gleick We’re living in a pivotal moment in history, on the cusp of either sinking into a dark period of growing poverty, accelerating ecological destruction, and worsening conflict, or moving forward to a new age of equity, sustainability, and stewardship of the only planet in the universe where we know life exists. I believe a positive future …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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..."At the same time, challenges faced by our communities grow—with multiple emergencies occurring simultaneously and the impacts of each compounding. How can public health, emergency management, and healthcare work to strengthen their partnerships in support of communities? The time is now to talk about it, examine response systems, and take steps to deepen relationships. "About the Preparedness Summit "The Preparedness …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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By Howard Rhodes Solar microgrids are emerging as a promising solution to the challenges of providing reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy to the millions of people who lack access to electricity. These decentralized energy systems, which generate and distribute power locally using photovoltaic (PV) technology, offer a viable alternative to traditional, centralized power grids that often fail to meet the …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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Politics is ethics done in public. Bernard Rowland Crick, a British political theorist, 1929-2008, sought to arrive at a "politics of action", as opposed to a "politics of thought" or of "ideology".
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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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Question : The role of misinformation and fake vigilantes, who provide false explanations about recent wildfires? Jem Bendell : In this essay I will show how not only all of those claims are nonsense, but that the fake video vigilantes for freedom are actually doing the work of the public relations agencies that serve the oil industry and undermine the …
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Ours is a critical time in the cultural evolution of humanity that is likely to shape our long-term future, or lack thereof. As a species, we have been on a self-destructive trajectory that has led us to our current polycrisis of unlivable economic conditions, worsening climate disasters, and the potential of an unspeakably devastating war, as the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report …
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Tesla has received approval from the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) to launch two virtual power plants for Powerwall owners in Texas. Virtual power plants (VPP) are becoming one of Tesla’s most underappreciated products. Tesla is using its existing and growing fleet of Powerwalls to aggregate their power capacity and offer electric grid services to utilities while compensating homeowners …
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“Vanishing Oasis” — First-Place Winner of the Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — documents how massive withdrawals from rivers that feed the Great Salt Lake are threatening the survival of millions of migratory birds and creating bare lake beds that generate plumes of toxic dust. “We have such a huge responsibility to ensure the lake’s survival..." filmmaker Jaxon Derow says, …
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Levels of water scarcity in major economies such as the US and China are soaring, with world annual water use rising by billions of cubic metres over the last century. The British Standards Institution says that without action, 75% of the world's population could be facing drought by 2050. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVVqiIPaiyA
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you can download the full report at https://www.postcarbon.org/issue/the-great-unraveling/ Weaving a New Tapestry: How to Respond to the Great Unraveling Faced, as we are, with the rapid unraveling of the tapestry of our environmental and social systems, it is hard to imagine doing anything but trying our best to stitch that fabric back together again. It’s natural to want the world …
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A cargo ship that makes use of giant sails set out on its maiden voyage this morning, as industry watchers cheered the new ship’s potential to help decarbonise the shipping sector. Pyxis Ocean, chartered by US-firm Cargill, uses British-made sales dubbed ‘WindWings,’ which are fitted to the deck of the ship and measure up to 37.5 metres in height. Estimates suggest …
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Gas companies in two of Canada's largest provinces are relying on reports with erroneous numbers and deleted information that make natural gas appear more sustainable and cost-effective than it actually is as they race to lock in fossil fuel infrastructure for decades. On Tuesday, Canada's National Observer reported a supposedly independent, third-party report that Enbridge — Ontario's gas utility — commissioned to argue …
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Paul Beckwith explains another recent paper by Hansen et al. https://youtu.be/E-YobPD8D_E
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With catastrophic weather events rapidly becoming the norm each year in Canada and around the world, young people are increasingly worried about their futures. But experts say resources to support their mental health are unlikely to keep up with demand. Speaking to CBC News in Victoria, with a haze of wildfire smoke hanging in the backdrop, Hannah Fessler, 16, expressed worry …
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