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Live differently–it’s your choice!
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The road ahead is uncertain, not smooth or straight, and has limited visibility.
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The latest 'CACOR LIVE' schedule is HERE.
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Welcome to Stay Informed, CACOR's weekly newsletter. The latest website updates, announcements and upcoming events. Please share our Stay Informed link on your personal networks. That's also the place to catch up on previous newsletters if you missed them.
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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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Topic: Transforming our Way of Life: Lessons from a Franciscan Time: Jan 15, 2025 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Biography: The Rev. Canon Jeff Golliher, Phd. is a cultural anthropologist and Episcopal priest, formerly of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the Anglican Communion Office at the UN. Today, he is Assisting Minister Provincial for Sacred Ecology …
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You are invited to a scheduled CACOR Live meeting. Speaker: Jake Brooks Topic: Achieving reliability in a Net Zero Ontario electrical grid. Time: Jan 22, 2025 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89516327629?pwd=56GQieRi8NaEiwkMVtdJ4g87OqHgL9.1 Meeting ID: 895 1632 7629 Passcode: 219052 Summary: Although low carbon sources of bulk electricity are becoming increasingly straightforward and economic to source, ensuring …
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Refusing turn off the oil taps means keeping the taps on for sea level rise. Accelerated ice melt and ocean expansion to has already caused the rate of sea level rise to double in the last 30 years. Unless leaders double down on transitioning away from fossil fuels, the terrible impacts of sea level rise will only increase further â affecting every …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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Preparing for a Future of Extreme Weather Alice Hill August 25, 2023 The planet has broiled this summer, with July winning the unwelcome title of the hottest month since records began, in the nineteenth century. Indeed, climate scientists think that it was possibly the hottest month in the past 120,000 years. Given the rapid pace of climate change, however, July …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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The ongoing wildfires in Southern California, particularly affecting areas like the Pacific Palisades and Pasadena, highlight the devastation climate change brings to local communities. The author reflects on their personal ties to the region and the increasing intensity of wildfires, linking them to global warming trends. Recognizing the inevitability of climate change exceeding 3°C, they advocate for a pragmatic approach termed âclimate realism.â
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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The speed of the human brain's ability to process information has been investigated in a new study, and according to scientists, we're not as mentally quick as we might like to think. In fact, research suggests our brains process information at a speed of just 10 bits per second. But how is this possible, in comparison to the trillions of …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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What Is Overtourism and Why Is It a Problem? In 2016, Skift published an article titled âExploring the Coming Perils of Overtourismâ that discussed the hazards of excessive tourism in popular destinations. In the years following, the term âovertourismâ appeared in countless media headlines worldwide. International tourism had been growing rapidly and exponentially, more than doubling between 2000 and 2019 and the need to …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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Correspondence Improving calculations of energy return on investment. Charles A. S. Hall  & Graham Palmerâ SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, USA. Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia. Nature Energy (2025) 10 January 2025 Maintaining energy supply is a critical challenge as we strive to transition away from fossil fuels. Energy return on investment (EROI) is a tool widely used by …
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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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Sunwealth has secured a $289.7 million loan guarantee for a scheme to deploy up to 1,000 solar PV and battery energy storage systems across 27 states. (ed:Â VPPs are not constrained by political state borders)
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Toxins in air, land and water.  Then there are the mud slides.
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Working with Britainâs National Electricity System Operator (NESO), this initiative will use Hypervolt EV chargers to support the grid at times when it is facing challenges maintaining the required frequency, EDF said. The offer aligns with NESOâs Clean Power 2030 Report, emphasizing quicker responses to maintain system frequency near 50 Hz and increasing services through frequency markets, according to EDF. …
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As of January 13th, Tesla has added even more manufacturers that will soon be able to charge at its Superchargers. Six manufacturers already have access to Teslaâs Superchargers in North America, and a handful more are on the way. Today, Ford, Rivian, General Motors (GM), Volvo, Polestar, and Nissan have access to Teslaâs Superchargers through the third-party vehicle access option in …
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Mark Carney, Canadian economist and former Governor of the Bank of Canada and Bank of England, chats with Jon Stewart about his countryâs response to Donald Trumpâs desire to annex Canada: âItâs not going to happen.â They also discuss the impending financial crisis Canada faces if Trump follows through on his tariff threats and how the countryâs upcoming election involving …
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Though the Lone Star State is known for its fast interconnection process and abundant sunshine, Texan solar also faces challenges that leave retail-based solar buyback programs as the primary option for homeowners. But a bold new solution to Texasâ solar paradox just came online. Solrite Energy, a solar and storage financier, and sonnen, a virtual power plant (VPP) and battery storage company, …
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Cara Chapman, an environmental engineering student at the University of British Columbia (UBC), says reading about climate change in the news can often feel "isolating and hopeless. Students might feel like thereâs nothing they can do. But the passion project sheâs part of at school has made her realize that this is far from the truth. Every weekend, Chapman and …
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Virtual power plants can play an essential role in meeting rising electricity demand, but to do so, utilities must bring them into the heart of their planning and rapidly take it to grid scale. Distributed capacity procurement (DCP) is a new model for utility-led and funded VPPs. Through DCPs, utilities plan for, site, dispatch and deploy DERs as capacity resources …
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0:00 I have not paid for electricity in a year 1:15 How does solar work 4:56 Why I picked the Tesla solar tiles 7:28 Numbers/specs time! 11:06 Summer 13:01 Fall 13:59 Winter 16:25 Spring 17:17 Eight Sleep 18:39 The money question 22:35 Quirks and Features 27:11 Conclusion (ed:Â The Manotick Microgrid used traditional rooftop solar panels, but this video is …
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âI drive an EV every day, and my winter is almost as harsh as yours ,â he said. âThe anxiety around winter and reduced range, while itâs not inaccurate, is just a bit overhyped.â EVs arenât the only cars to suffer performance issues under frigid conditions. Conventional gasoline cars lose between 10 percent and 20 percent of their driving range …
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