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CACOR's weekly newsletter
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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.
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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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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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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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Speaker: Lierre Keith Topic: Bright Green Lies. Time: Sep 6, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Once, environmentalism was about saving wild places and wild creatures from destruction. Now, it’s about finding a new power source to continue their destruction. The “bright greens” believe three lies: that industrial civilization can be sustained if we simply switch fuels; that alternative energy can …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Julia Barnes Topic: The Imminent Threat of Deep Sea Mining Time: Sep 13, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87152131570?pwd=V1BNYlFvU1huekNCZDJFaXIyUlliUT09 Meeting ID: 871 5213 1570 Passcode: 464406 Summary: As the ocean struggles under the assaults of industrial fishing, ocean acidification, warming, and pollution, corporations are rushing to exploit it …
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Why is the brain divided? The difference between right & left hemispheres has been puzzled over for centuries. In a book of unprecedented scope, McGilchrist draws on a vast body of recent brain research, illustrated with case histories, to reveal that the difference is profound—not just this or that function, but two whole, coherent, but incompatible ways of experiencing the …
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Categories: Analysis, Books & Reviews, Trending
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Comparing Recovery from Drug Addiction to Recovery from Exponential Growth Addiction “If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.” – Michael Jordan Right now I am helping out a friend who is a recovering drug addict. It’s hard to help an addict and often makes me feel incapable and frustrated. It …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller Richard Buckminster Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. Creator of the geodesic dome. Commentary, Dr. Edward W. (Ted)Manning, Member, Club of Rome: Needs are very insensitive to price …
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Does carbon capture work? What Chatbot says - followed by a new article focused on Canada. Chatbot: Searching for: carbon capture Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a process that involves capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial sources, treating it, and transporting it to a long-term storage location 1. The aim of CCS is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate …
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A new report from RMI, formerly known as the Rocky Mountain Institute, claims that renewable energy — wind and solar — is on track for exponential growth that will lead to a disruption of the electricity sector worldwide this decade.
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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By Carien du Plessis, Anait Miridzhanian and Bhargav Acharya August 24, 2023 Summary Bloc adds Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt, Argentina and UAE Expansion could lend global clout to BRICS Group leaves door open to further expansion JOHANNESBURG, Aug 24 (Reuters) - "The BRICS bloc of developing nations agreed on Thursday to admit Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt, Argentina and the United Arab Emirates …
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Distinguished professor Dr. Jersey Wojciechowski provided his view of the future in this wide-ranging essay. He covered the essence of our environment and the concept of nature, evolution, knowledge, systems, and our possible worldviews. This interesting article contained the following table (amended to reflect an error in the righthand column that was corrected in the next issue of the Proceedings--humans …
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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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Mass extinction is accelerating... this makes it clear that even if we could "lick" climate change we have many, many other destructive effects from our "civilization" that require us to live completely differently - tinkering at the edges with renewables may be a good first step, but that is all it is, a beginning.... "Growth for the sake of growth …
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Early this year, India surpassed China as the most populous country in the world, with the latter having 850,000 fewer people by the end of 2022, marking its first population decline since famine struck from 1959 to 1961. While this reduction may seem modest considering China’s 1.4 billion population currently, an ongoing decline is anticipated, with UN projections suggesting that China’s …
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Choosing a Way Forward The Future Management of Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel (455 pages pdf) VISION Our vision is the long-term management of Canada’s nuclear waste in a manner that safeguards people and respects the environment, now and in the future. MISSION The purpose of the NWMO is to develop collaboratively with Canadians a management approach for the long-term care …
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It seems that we are not the only species on the planet increasing GHGs. Perhaps all our human centric thinking needs to start including other species? That would be hard to model! The climate-driven advance of beavers into the Arctic tundra is causing the release of more methane -- a greenhouse gas -- into the atmosphere. Beavers, as everyone knows, …
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In Radiation and Revolution political theorist and anti-capitalist activist Sabu Kohso uses the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster to illuminate the relationship between nuclear power, capitalism, and the nation-state. Combining an activist's commitment to changing the world with a theorist's determination to grasp the world in its complexity, Kohso outlines how the disaster is not just a pivotal event in postwar …
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In this photo essay, Luigi Avantaggiato explores an unusual solution to this dilemma that is now gaining traction — feeding insects to livestock and, potentially, humans. The European Commission says that insects could replace soy-based animal feed, helping to slow deforestation, or even supply an alternate source of protein for humans. Studies show that insects can furnish the same amount …
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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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Authoritarian and Democratic Technics, revisited “The viability of technology, like democracy, depends in the end on the practice of justice and on the enforcement of limits to power.” – Ursula Franklin I. Is technology a problem for democracy, or is democracy a problem for technology? When times are good that is the type of question that academics and activists wrestle with, …
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After a summer of raging wildfires linked to climate change, and in a province that is the automotive hub of the country, Ontario can and should do much more to accelerate the electrification of heavy buses and trucks. And investing in the electrification of school buses is a good place to start, especially when you consider that transportation is the single …
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Long-duration energy storage is a tough business, but it’s vital to decarbonizing the grid. Eos thinks its zinc-based batteries are the best candidate for the job. To make the switch to clean energy, U.S. power grids are going to need a lot of batteries — including those that can store power for far longer than the two to four hours that lithium-ion batteries …
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