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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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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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The latest 'CACOR LIVE' schedule is HERE.
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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: Dr. David Harries Topic: Whence and Whither Canada’s Sovereignty? Time: Apr 30, 2025 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Biography: David Harries is a Canadian citizen who since 1958, for work and sports, has lived in 20 countries and paid one to many visits to another 93. Once an outspoken optimist about Canada, his military and civilian experience, especially …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Dr. Tom McAuley Topic: Navigating the Great Transition - Pope Francis’ Plea for an Integral Ecology and Planetary Friendship Time: 7 May 2025 at 13:30 EDT Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87651175981?pwd=mwkQzVEtGBeXixhSsAEyNxlPgMDmS7.1 Meeting ID: 876 5117 5981 Passcode: 289473 Summary: Current actions and Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement remain insufficient to …
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The elites are blind, the media asleep — but the fuse of revolution has been lit, and history is about to turn. Roger Hallam Apr 26, 2025 Shortly before I was imprisoned last year, I had the privilege of joining a Zoom call with a man living in the Central American rainforest. He had been the primary fundraiser for the Social …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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Tesla offers owners an easy-to-use battery health tool, which allows users to view the degradation of their vehicle’s battery and improve the range estimate. Battery Health Like all batteries, electric vehicle batteries naturally degrade over time as a result of the chemical reactions that occur during charging and discharging cycles. Other factors also play a role, but the number of charge …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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In today’s ever-evolving energy landscape, solar panels often steal the spotlight as the go-to solution for sustainable power at home. However, a quiet revolution is underway in the field of urban wind energy. I remember the first time I visited a wind farm in the Netherlands—the steady hum of the turbines, set against a backdrop of flat, open fields, painted …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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Do we need Adversity to Thrive? - Part 2 There should be a Science of Adversity – Dune Let’s continue to explore how adversity forces us to be more adaptable because let’s face it, we don’t really like change: its scary and its the unknown. However, one of the many lessons from Mother Nature is that any species that does …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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Consumers are different from citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities, and duties to their fellow human beings. And so long as you are using that word "consumer" in the public discussion. You will be degrading the quality of the discussion. James Howard Kunstler, American writer, who spoke to CaCOR on July 10: https://youtu.be/-4AMnViQv9A Cited by CaCOR member Andrew Welch in …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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By Richard van der Jagt Geoff Strong Opinion April 25th 2025 Politicians today are gambling with the future of the global population. Science clearly describes the seriousness of our current climate crisis, but much of it is ignored in favour of advice from the fossil fuel industry and the Trump government. The main objective of Canada’s 2020 climate plan was to reduce …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Writers
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The failure today, to bring the potential reality and implications of peak oil, indeed peak everything, into scientific discourse and teaching is a grave threat to Industrial society. The concept of the possibility of a huge, multifaceted failure of some substantial part of industrial civilization is so completely outside the understanding of our leaders that we are almost totally unprepared …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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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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Renewables in 2024: 5 Key Facts Behind a Record-Breaking Year. Global renewable power capacity increased by 585 GW in a single year, indicating a record rate of 15.1% annual growth, which surpasses 2023's growth rate of 14.3%. The increase marks a consistent trend of renewables breaking their own expansion records each year, which underscores renewables’ strong business and investment …
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Climate change will surprise us, but so-called ‘tipping points’ may lead us astray. By Robert Kopp, Elisabeth Gilmore, Rachael Shwom | March 12, 2025 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Over the last 20 years, it has become increasingly common to describe a range of phenomena—both in the climate system and in human affairs related to climate change—as “tipping points” (Lenton et al., 2023). …
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Old growth forests in eastern Canada show that the climate started changing almost 100 years ago. Alexandre Pace The Conversation April 2025 The effects of climate change are complex, especially on the water cycle. As we seek to better understand human-driven climate changes, long-term baselines for environmental data are essential. However, records of past environmental conditions are too short …
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By Alastair Marsh The private sector isn’t spending nearly enough on adaptation, leaving potentially huge returns on the table, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s global head of climate advisory. Adaptation — the process of protecting assets against the physical damages associated with weather shocks such as wildfires, floods and droughts — has taken on a new urgency with the world now on track for …
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If you’ve ever had your mind blank out while in the middle of something, you’re far from alone. In research published this week, scientists are making the case that mind blanking is a genuine brain phenomenon. Researchers from Belgium, France, and Australia conducted the study, a review of the existing data on mind blanking. They argue that blanking out should …
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We Made Big Strides in 2024 Tesla owners avoided releasing over 30 million metric tons of CO2e into Earth's atmosphere. This is equivalent to the emissions from an ICE vehicle being driven about 90 billion miles. Our global Supercharging network was powered by 100% renewable energy for the fourth year in a row. We achieved this through a combination of onsite resources …
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"What would the planet look without AMOC?" The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a vast system of ocean currents that plays a vital role in regulating the climate – especially in Europe and across the Atlantic basin. But the latest research suggests it may be weakening faster than expected. In this video, climate justice campaigner Tori Tsui is joined …
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IESO has 37.2 GW of installed capacity and 18,640 miles of transmission, both ranked seventh among the nine organized markets in the U.S. and Canada.
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x Link to | Millions Have Amnesia About the Worst of Trump’s Presidency. Memory Experts Explain Why.
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I know I just emailed y’all a newsletter yesterday, and I try hard not to take up more of your headspace than I should— but I don’t think you’ll mind this edition, because it has some really promising news. The most obvious joy, of course, came last night in Canada, where citizens of the not-51st-state rejected a Trump-lite figure named …
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