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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: Ralph Torrie Topic: Climate change response scenarios for Canada Time: Apr 9, 2025 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Ralph Torrie will present an illustrated summary of what an emergency response to climate change would look like for Canada. This new analysis includes province-by-province simulations of a transition to zero emissions by 2050, with a focus on the …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Dr. Ralph C. Martin Topic: Oligarchs and Overshoot, Forcing Feast to Famine. Time:, 16 Apr 2025 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86932510352?pwd=60jRgXZLmPjTHwIbPhWnF00ag2RdrE.1 Meeting ID: 869 3251 0352 Passcode: 835631 Summary: Dr Martin reviews the impact of wealthy corporations on agriculture and aspects of overshoot related to agriculture. …
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The unpalatibility of the carbon tax on retail gasoline and diesel was the reason given by Mark Carney for axing the C-tax. I consider that to be a weak reason, although I acknowledge that it was brilliant politics. I would argue that there is a much better reason: the carbon tax has not reduced the consumption of gasoline. We have …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Writers
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Ayesha Tandon 28.03.2025 | 2:30pm Arctic sea ice has recorded its smallest winter peak extent since satellite records began 47 years ago, new data reveals. Provisional data from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) shows that Arctic sea ice reached a winter maximum extent of 14.33m square kilometres (km2) last week. This is 1.31m km2 below the 1981-2010 …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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"The laws of electricity were not established by scientists. They were observed and discovered. Nobody can tell an electron what to do. That's the way it works. And the laws of electricity favor distributed generation." Achim Ginsberg-Klemmt, Vice President of Engineering at Gismo Power
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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April 7, 2025 12:20pm EDT The United States' historical approach to climate change is failing. American clean technology industries lag dangerously behind their international competitors, threatening U.S. geopolitical and economic influence, and climate change is on track to exceed internationally agreed targets, endangering U.S. national security. CFR’s new Climate Realism Initiative, led by Senior Fellow Varun Sivaram, will chart a …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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Latest edition of MPI’s Handy Guide to Key Immigration Statistics Is Out WASHINGTON, DC — For the first time since 1850, when the U.S. Census Bureau started recording nativity data, immigration accounted for the entire growth of the U.S. population between 2022 and 2023, amid falling U.S. birth rates. This finding is just one of many included in the latest …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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How to talk about climate change Facts alone are not enough. If we want to engage everyone in climate action, we need psychological strategies. By Bruce Grierson | 9 MIN | November 21, 2024 This is where we are in the climate emergency. The data is in. The facts are incontrovertible. There’s no denying that we’re in a crisis of …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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As we face the pressing challenges of sustainable growth, it's essential to understand how our resource consumption impacts the planet. The CACOR Live convergence video dives into the relationship between human growth and the urgent need for systemic change. Explore how grassroots movements can empower individuals to take action and foster a sense of community in the fight for sustainability.
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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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A recent breakthrough in transparent solar panels could seamlessly integrate clean energy into building design by transforming ordinary windows into power generators. An international team of researchers at CITYSOLAR recently announced an efficiency record for transparent solar cells. The panels combine organic solar cells with perovskites to achieve an efficiency of 12.3%, moving closer to the average 21% efficiency of non-transparent panels. “We are the first …
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For Base Power, the real money is almost certainly in so-called grid-balancing operations. Thanks to the way Texas’ power market works, the startup can be paid — handsomely in some cases — to tap the batteries it has installed to send electricity back to the grid. By installing residential batteries, Base Power appears to have found a speedy way to build …
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While many governments and industries have adopted BESS for various green energy goals, there is also concern about the safety hazards surrounding BESS plants, especially among locals who live near operating plants or future plant sites. Unfortunately, these fears are not unwarranted: Over the last few years, there have been several fires at battery plants. Recently, in January of 2025, a fire occurred …
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Biodiversity loss in all species and every ecosystem linked to humans. Sweeping synthesis of 2,000 global studies leaves no doubt about scale of problem and role of humans, say experts. Humans are driving biodiversity loss among all species across the planet, according to a synthesis of more than 2,000 studies. The exhaustive global analysis leaves no doubt about the devastating …
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Feeling Broke? Blame Big Oil. Canada’s affordability crisis and fossil fuel company profits are linked, says report. Zoë Yunker 26 Mar 2025 The Tyee Surging oil were the single largest driver of early pandemic inflation raising prices on everything from gas to groceries, according to a report published last week from the Centre for Future Work. The report found that …
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Small Modular Reactors Are the Most Expensive Way to Create Electricity. Link to | Small Modular Reactors Are the Most Expensive Way to Create Electricity.
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Why Aren’t We Losing Our Minds over the Plastic in Our Brains? New research on microplastics in brains reminds us that while scientists compile safety data, our leaders should still act. By Megha Satyanarayana February 14, 2025 Scientific American Our brains are full of plastic. This was the fun news I read earlier this week while picking up dinner take-out, packed in …
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Donald Trump’s tariff announcement on April 2nd has drawn mockery for its spurious maths. Any bilateral trade deficit is treated as gross unfairness; the tariffs are set by taking the measure as a share of goods imported from each country, and halving it. But there are other oddities too, from the fact that the tariff rates appear to be calculated …
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In 1 min 40 seconds, microgrids and Virtual Power Plants are introduced.
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