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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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Speaker: Ruben Nelson Topic: The Root (Meta) Challenge of the 21st Century: Why Donât We Get It? Time: 5 March 2025 Summary: We know that our apprehension of reality determines our responses to it. Our choice, as Wittgenstein pointed out, is to âunderstand or die.â Given this, best we get serious about learning to see, explore, and reflexively understand and …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: OREC: Empowering Ontario communities with renewable energy Speakers: John Kirkwood & Dick Bakker Time: Mar 12, 2025, at 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82905457620?pwd=eEcR2Kdr1AcbwPPYimKNisrg3tAvlf.1 Meeting ID: 829 0545 7620 Passcode: 717252 Dick             John Summary Ontario's electricity …
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The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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A rapidly changing world is making complex humanitarian emergencies even more complicated and current responses less sustainable. New approaches can benefit the givers and receivers of lifesaving aid. Introduction: Confronting Unprecedented Humanitarian Needs â Ambassador Mark A. Green As a rapidly changing world creates new humanitarian needs, innovative approaches and new collaborations can help us rise to the moment. Many …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8peiLVFsLdw
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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How did we turn Life Giving Bread into Deadly Franken Bread? Since ancient Egypt bread has been considered the âstaff of Lifeâ: a poetic way of saying bread is a vital food that sustains life. Now our mass produced, over-processed bread is just another junk food that damages our health. Because bread has been so fundamental to our culture - …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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The impacts of climate change are already displacing about 20 million people a year. By the year 2050 it's likely hundreds of millions a year will need to move. By the year 2100 3/4 of the world's people will suffer dangerous climates if they don't move. This video looks at how what it happening now shows what the future will …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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The Moss Landing BESS fire has focused attention on safety considerations and concerns, as Aaron Marks, energy storage consultant at Clean Energy Associates (CEA), takes a closer look. This continues our regular series of exclusive Energy-Storage.news Guest Blog contributions from Clean Energy Associates, following Januaryâs piece, âAn object in motion: The US battery storage industry will keep moving,â from Dan Finn-Foley, CEAâs …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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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 U.S. power sector is undergoing a major expansion to keep pace with the rising demand for electricity from data centers and other consumers, and trying to do a lot at once. Keep a lid on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by adding wind, solar and other renewables. Maintain grid reliability by supplementing variable renewable energy with more around-the-clock sources like …
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A December report by the International Energy Agency suggests that the limit is the willingness to drill, rather than the available resource. The authors, which included MAGMA co-host Project Innerspace, found that there was enough accessible geothermal to meet 140 times the current global electric demand.
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Policy makers wanting to address Californiaâs affordability crisis should reject the utilityâs so-called âsolar cost shiftâ and instead partner with consumers who have helped save all ratepayers $1.5 billion in 2024 alone by investing in rooftop solar. The state should prioritize these resources that simultaneously reduce carbon, increase resiliency, and minimize grid spending. This realignment of energy priorities away from …
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Many artistic and philosophical movements have produced Manifestos, proclaiming truths that to their authors were as manifest as their five-fingered hands. This Manifesto also states self-evident truths, as obvious to us as the marvelous five-part environment â land, air, water, fire/sunlight, and organisms â wherein we live, move, and have our being. The Manifesto is Earth-centered. It shifts the value-focus …
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Information on the internet might seem like itâs there forever, but itâs only as permanent as people choose to make it. Thatâs apparent as the second Trump administration âfloods the zoneâ with efforts to dismantle science agencies and the data and websites they use to communicate with the public. The targets range from public health and demographics to climate science. We are a research librarian and policy scholar who belong …
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go to the GetCharged website
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Finance & economics | Sunburst Cheap solar power is sending electrical grids into a death spiral Pakistan and South Africa provide a warning for other countries The Economist, Feb 13th 2025 In 1812, Frederick Winsor, a madcap entrepreneur, invented the public utility. The idea behind his Gas Light and Coke company, which would supply residents of London, was that instead …
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âEVs have the potential to produce the exact same grid services as stationary storage systems for fleets or residential customers,â she said. âThis is a great way for customers to provide valuable services to the grid while gaining revenue.â  V2G, Cumming pointed out, can lower or eliminate the cost to utilities of infrastructure upgrades, leading to reductions in electricity rates.  …
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In a significant step toward a sustainable and resilient energy future, Swedenâs first hybrid solar park has been successfully launched in Halmstad. Sungrow, a leading global provider of renewable energy solutions, played a crucial role by supplying inverters and the Energy Storage System (ESS). By integrating photovoltaic (PV) technology with advanced ESS, this project showcases key advancements in renewable energy, …
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