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Stay Informed
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CACOR's weekly newsletter
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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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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: Dr. Peter Carter Topic: An Intensifying Global Climate Emergency and What Must Be Done. Time: Nov 15, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: We live in the age of abrupt and accelerating collapse. According to NOAA's The Power of Greenhouse Gases, "We are committing Earth, and ourselves, to climate chaos for thousands of years." Dr. Carter will present the …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Please note the late start is 16:00 EST Speaker: Dr. Shivam Saxena Topic: What Next on V2X in Ontario: Lessons Learned from Pilots. Time: Nov 22, 2023 16:00 Eastern Standard Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: #172 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84913226007?pwd=QTRlYTJzZHRHRDROSG4rSTI0dzROdz09 Meeting ID: 849 1322 6007 Passcode: 745110 Summary: Bidirectional electric vehicles (EVs) can be a …
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Broken Healing our Broken Relationships with the Japanese Art of Kintsugi The Great Unravelling within us has begun. Am I broken? Yes. Are all people broken? Yes. Is our natural world broken? Yes. Can we all be repaired? Yes. Is this painful? Yes. Can this process make living better? Yes. But it won’t happen until we can admit to ourselves …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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"Economic Information Bulletin No. (EIB-260) 43 pp November 2023 "U.S. Agricultural Policy Review, 2022 "by Katherine Baldwin, Brian Williams, Christopher Sichko, Francis Tsiboe, Saied Toossi, Jordan W. Jones, Dylan Turner, and Sharon Raszap Skorbiansky "This is the 2022 edition of the annual series documenting developments in U.S. agricultural policies, with a focus on policies related to agricultural production, agrofood value chains, and food and nutrition assistance. Developments …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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Carbon mineralization is a promising solution for long-term CO2 storage, offering an environmentally friendly approach to combat climate change. This process involves converting CO2 into stable, solid minerals that can be stored underground. Various techniques, including direct, indirect, and bio-mineralization, are being explored to accelerate this process.
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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Wireless charging for electric vehicles is a promising technology that could revolutionize the way we power our cars, offering a convenient and efficient solution. By eliminating the need for physical connections, wireless charging simplifies the charging process and allows for integration into public spaces. Furthermore, it has the potential to enable dynamic charging, extending the range of electric vehicles. However, challenges such as power transfer efficiency and cost must be addressed for widespread adoption.
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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BP's electric vehicle charger unit is investing $100 million in Tesla chargers for the U.S., marking Tesla's first independent network deployment. This move creates a new revenue stream for Tesla and supports BP's plan to invest $1 billion in charging stations by 2030.
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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Dr. Nicole Morgan explained how the 19th century saw a change in perceptions of space. She believed the 20th century and the early 21st century are seeing a change in the perception of time, the 4th dimension. By the end of the 19th century, humans had occupied virtually the entire land surface of Earth, thus completing the space enclosure. By …
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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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Humans are an interesting mixture of altruism and competition. We work together well at times and at others we will fight to get our own way. To try to explain these conflicting tendencies, researchers have turned to the chimpanzees and the bonobos for insight. Once overlooked, researchers are recognizing bonobos as more similar than chimpanzees to humans. Which, considering their reputation as …
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Community energy—what does that even mean? It's that sweet spot nestled between individual homes and massive utility-scale projects. Think of it as a group effort, where people collectively own power generation and storage. This could be solar panels on local buildings, shared wind turbines, or even medium-scale community batteries. These community batteries, found in towns and villages, store excess power …
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WHAT WE'RE BUILDING We’re creating a new “we” in our City. It is an organization of 85 organizations, including congregations, civic institutions, unions and other non-profit organizations that are made up of people. It is a vehicle for our institutions to be able to act more effectively on their respective missions to do justice and improve our world. We have …
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The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms. Executive Summary The Lancet Countdown is an international research collaboration that independently monitors the evolving impacts of climate change on health, and the emerging health opportunities of climate action. In its eighth iteration, this 2023 …
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The province’s gas plant expansion plan is a blueprint for a made-in-Ontario public health failure. It will unravel previous climate progress, leading to increased illness, lives lost, and economic fallout further raising our cost of living. This summer saw the hottest global temperatures in recorded human history, triggering the worst wildfires in Canadian history. Ignoring the escalating fossil fuel-driven climate …
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Research unveiled a surprising plateau in plants’ ability to absorb carbon through stomata, which could mean more carbon left in the atmosphere. By Emily Shepherd. Gram for gram, a plant loses far more water every day than any terrestrial animal—99% of the water taken in by roots is released into the air as water vapor. While the stomata are open, …
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CACOR member TD Dougherty has just published a climate fiction (cli-fi) book series. In a recent presentation, he describes the genesis and development of the stories, the latest of which is 'The Young One'. The two other titles are called 'The Rich One' and 'The Odd One'. Self published on Amazon, the series is literally home grown. TD Dougherty tells …
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All in-production Rolls-Royce engines for long-haul and business jets are compatible with 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), the manufacturer has announced. Compatibility testing found that “there are no engine technology barriers to the use of 100% SAF”, the announcement said. A ground test on a BR710 business jet engine at the company’s facility in Canada completed the test regime. Other …
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In 1972, a team of MIT scientists got together to study the risks of civilizational collapse. Their system dynamics model published by the Club of Rome identified impending ‘limits to growth’ (LtG) that meant industrial civilization was on track to collapse sometime within the 21st century, due to overexploitation of planetary resources. The controversial MIT analysis generated heated debate, and was widely …
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In the 1972 bestseller Limits to Growth (LtG), the authors concluded that, if global society kept pursuing economic growth, it would experience a decline in food production, industrial output, and ultimately population, within this century. The LtG authors used a system dynamics model to study interactions between global variables, varying model assumptions to generate different scenarios. Previous empirical-data comparisons since then by …
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