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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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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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Speaker: Marilyn Mosley Gordonier Topic: Girls Education In Afghanistan Today. Time: Wednesday, October 11, 2023, Summary: Since the Taliban gained complete power in Afghanistan in August, 2021, girls have been banned from all schools and are restricted to their homes. Educate Girls Now has steadfastly come to their aid, providing online classes, a journaling project, English classes, the opportunity to …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Andrew Welch Topic: Our Second Chance--Changing Course and Solving the Value Crisis. Time: Oct 18, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82002720447?pwd=a05DVDYyQUtzOVdDejE4MFg1SUh0dz09 Meeting ID: 820 0272 0447 Passcode: 755643 Summary: Many solutions have been proposed for our global crises - one of the most recent and exciting being the Earth4All vision …
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Wellbeing and Regeneration This presentation was developed by a group of Club of Rome and associates with the intent of replacing Growth as the principal obsession of so many economists, businesses and others with a broader goal and some hints on how to begin to build towards it. The original impetus came from a presentation by David Korten on why …
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“If you suppress the right frontal cortex, people actually start to see living things as inanimate. They start seeing people as kind of zombies. And whereas if you do the opposite and suppress the left frontal cortex, they start to see things that wouldn't normally be considered animate as animate. They see the sun and they see it moving in …
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Drew Wilson, CACOR chairman at the time, introduced members of a panel who were to discuss Solutions for the World Problematique: The Element of Hope. Dr. Wilson first reviewed the conclusions of the previous year's symposium (Solutions for the World Problematique: First Steps Towards Solutions). Andy Clarke spoke about an approaching world food crisis. John Milne discussed the great challenge …
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Learn about the ITER Project, an international collaboration working towards clean fusion energy. Discover its goals, progress, and potential benefits.
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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Tesla's Virtual Power Plant program, which allows Powerwall owners to sell energy to the grid, is now available to San Diego Gas & Electric customers. This program aims to reduce demand and increase supply during grid stress events, offering participants the chance to earn money.
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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"I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who makes things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those …
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"Climate anxiety can feel extremely isolating, but far more people are experiencing it than we might realize. JANNA WALE MARIA SHALLARD 24.08.23 Originally published in The National Observer. "Experiencing the climate crisis? Actively pretending everything is fine despite recent climate and extreme weather events? Feeling isolated in your worries about climate change and the future? Feeling grief and trying to navigate climate …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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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 exponential growth of electric vehicles (EVs) means that ICE (internal combustion engine) sales and gasoline demand have already peaked and will be in freefall by 2030. So the end of the ICE age has begun, putting at risk half of global oil demand. This is the subject of RMI’s latest report: X-change: Cars. 1. EV Sales are growing exponentially …
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Published recently on resilience.org As the momentum toward a net-zero world increases and as wider public awareness of the risks associated with mining rises, the industry will undergo increased scrutiny for its known risk factors, inadequate proactive policies, reporting deficiencies, and failures to remediate damages. There will be increasing pressure from civil society and governments on mining companies and lending …
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Potential E-Bike Benefits in the Nation’s 10 Most Populous Cities To demonstrate the capabilities of the calculator, RMI analyzed the potential e-bike benefits in the country’s 10 most populous cities. In those 10 cities, more than 50 percent of weekly vehicle trips are under five miles. Source: Replica Reducing the number of these vehicle trips under five miles by 25 …
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The sheer number of reality TV shows about survival shows how obsessed we are with the idea of enduring in the wild. In True Survivors, Sarika Cullis-Suzuki goes on a scientific and personal journey, challenging the modern stereotype of ‘man against nature’ to get to the root of human survival. Growing up, Cullis-Suzuki loved to play ‘survival’ on the beach with her …
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Also, my estimate here is on the conservative side. I wouldn’t be surprised if Tesla is currently over 1 million battery cells per week at Gigafactory Texas, and there could have been energy density improvements pushing the capacity over 100 Wh per cell. (Editorial comment: My Tesla Model 3 can travel 1 km on 100 Wh, or one 4680 cell …
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A common criticism of heat pumps is that they do not work in cold weather. However, the Nordic region – particularly Sweden, Finland and Norway – offers a rebuttal to this assessment, as our research at the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) shows. These three European countries have the highest heat pump sales per 1,000 households in the continent. Sweden, Norway and …
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Electricity production is the biggest source of CO2 emissions in the world, but a new report suggests the grid’s dirtiest days will soon be behind it. 6 October 2023 Dan McCarthy Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. The biggest source of carbon emissions in the world is electricity production, but a new report suggests the grid’s …
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Dennis Meadows, along with Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers and William W Behrens wrote the Limits To Growth. The book is considered 'up there' with Darwin's 'Theory Of Evolution' says Richard Heinberg (Post-Carbon Institute). Less known, is that since 1982, Dennis L. Meadows has been designing board games, to rehearse thinking in categories of sustainability. One of the best known is …
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The RESCHOOL project demonstrates how two San Diego electric school bus fleets provide grid resiliency and serve as a roadmap for other school districts to follow SAN DIEGO, Oct. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nuvve Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: NVVE), a global leader in vehicle-to-grid technology and deployments, has received a proposed award of $1,910,703 by the California Energy Commission (CEC) under the CEC's Electric School Bus Bi-Directional Infrastructure funding …
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EVLO Energy Storage Inc. (EVLO), a fully integrated battery energy storage system provider and wholly owned subsidiary of Hydro-Québec, announce the signing of an equipment supply agreement with SolarBank Corporation (CSE: SUNN) (OTC: SUUNF) (FSE: GY2) (SolarBank), an independent renewable energy project developer focused on distributed and community solar projects, to supply EVLOFLEX battery energy storage systems (BESS) for three …
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