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Stay Informed
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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 Assistant about any topics related to CACOR's concerns. We hope you learn something new from it.
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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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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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Speaker: Sandrine Dixon-DeCleve Topic: Earth 4 All discussion. Time: Wednesday October 4, 2023 Summary: Building on the legacies of The Limits to Growth and the Planetary Boundaries frameworks, science is at the heart of our work. Leading scientists have developed state of the art systems dynamic models and run different scenarios for possible plausible futures. Earth4All is guided by a Transformational Economics Commission, made up of …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Marilyn Mosely Gordonier Topic: Girls Education In Afghanistan Today. Time: Wednesday October 11, 2023 13:00 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84835907458?pwd=M3F0bjlhclVIaE1DWTZ2K3B0MzJCUT09 Meeting ID: 848 3590 7458 Passcode: 215680 Summary: Since the Taliban gained complete power in Afghanistan in August, 2021, girls have been banned from all schools and …
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RESULTS POLICYMAKERS' SUMMARY REPORT FAQS DOWNLOADS EPI DATAVIS DASHBOARD WEIGHTING EXPLORER Return to results overview RESULTS View country details COUNTRY Afghanistan Albania Algeria Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive, and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered. Jean Piaget, (1896-1980), Swiss psychologist known for his work …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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"We've had 27 COP meetings on climate change, a half a dozen formal agreements to reduce carbon emissions. There have been several formal scientists’ warnings to humanity. This has all taken place in the last 50 years. “Yet, during the past 50 years, the pace of negative change has accelerated. So, despite the best of our science, despite the best …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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Sensitivity, Non-Linearity, & Self-Amplification in the Global Climate System The presentation was delivered from his London base by David Wasdell, Director of the Apollo-Gaia Project, on the 20th September 2013, to the Annual Conference of the Club of Rome, which took place in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. High definition, interactive, video-conferencing facilities were used to minimize the carbon footprint of …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Climate, Club of Rome
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Renewables are growing exponentially, RMI has shown. The shift is transformative, but also widely undercounted. The International Energy Agency’s latest findings — on renewables’ rise and oil demand peaking — add urgency to this transition. September 29, 2023 By Kingsmill Bond, Sam Butler-Sloss There is as much naysaying about the clean energy transition as there are ways to accelerate it. The excuses …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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Nope to Hope? The risks of a "Hopium" on our Physiology with A Children's Tale Learning to dance the cosmic dance—this is why we are here on this earth, living the life we are living. J.Finley Today I write just after my daughter gave birth to a baby boy. All children are hope incarnate, so today is certainly a …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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Growing as We Age. Responsibility to Care for Each Other and the Earth. While sorting papers and belongings in 2023, CACOR member David Dougherty chanced to come across the transcript of a sermon his mother had kept. The transcript had been saved, along with other momentos of her life. The sermon was delivered by Reverend Brian Kopke of the First …
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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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APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION LAUDATE DEUM OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS TO ALL PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL ON THE CLIMATE CRISIS When human beings claim to take God’s place, they become their own worst enemies. 1. “Praise God for all his creatures”. This was the message that Saint Francis of Assisi proclaimed by his life, his canticles and all his actions. In …
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Dagomys Declaration of the Pugwash Council Pugwash September 3, 1988 History Ensuring the Survival of Civilisation 38th Pugwash Conference Issued 3 September 1988 We live in an interdependent world of increasing risks. Thirty-three years ago, the Russell-Einstein Manifesto warned humanity that our survival is imperilled by the risk of nuclear war. The familiar challenges identified in that Manifesto and the 1982 Warsaw Declaration …
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Leon Kolankiewicz The Warning, published in 1992, started with a declaration that I have since seen repeated many times: “Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course.” It had a major section focused on population, which started out with this unflinching message: The earth is finite. Its ability to absorb wastes and destructive effluent is finite. Its …
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Talk of where banks do and don’t put their money doesn’t usually make the red carpet. But in September, 200 actors and filmmakers signed an open letter calling on the Toronto International Film Festival to stop accepting sponsorship money from RBC. As Avengers star Mark Ruffalo tweeted, “RBC is one of the biggest funders of fossil fuels with the worst …
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SAN DIEGO — Col. Thomas Bedell had been commanding Marine Corps Air Station, Miramar in San Diego for just one day, in July 2021, when he got a message from the base energy management director. The city power system was straining under a heatwave, and it was time to start up the microgrid. “So I said, yes! Start up the …
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CALGARY — The coming startup of the Trans Mountain pipeline will help boost Canadian oil production to an all-time high within the next two years, according to a new report. The report by Deloitte Canada said the extra capacity created by the currently ongoing pipeline expansion is expected to boost Canadian production by about 375,000 barrels a day over the …
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BRASILIA, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Brazil's government is preparing a task force to provide emergency assistance to inhabitants in the Amazon region hit by a severe drought that has impacted the rivers that are their life support, Environment Minister Marina Silva said. Low river levels and hotter waters have killed masses of fish seen floating on river surfaces, contaminating the …
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Dunsky is pleased to congratulate its client, the Government of Québec, on the launch of its 2023-2030 EV Charging Strategy. Supported by $764M over five years (appr. $250M of which was previously announced), the Strategy – developed with significant Dunsky support – is designed to ensure ample charging infrastructure is available to accommodate the rapid growth in EVs now required by law …
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"The speed, magnitude and extent at which these interconnectivities play out is unprecedented and profoundly complex. The implications of this human-driven transformation of Earth’s biosphere has bearings on global biodiversity, spread of species, ecosystem functioning, water cycles, and climate" This theme explores how global biophysical and socioeconomic dynamics emerge, interact, and shape the relationships between humans and nature, and what …
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Our Earth, Limits to Growth, Post Truth and the Crisis of Consciousness I am a part of the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome (CACOR) in Ottawa still following the 1970s work of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Dennis and Donella Meadows, Jørgen Randers, William W. Behrans III and team that led to the book Limits to Growth. It was serendipitous that an …
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