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Stay Informed
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CACOR's weekly newsletter
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Welcome to Stay Informed, CACOR's weekly newsletter. It contains all the latest updates to the CACOR Website.
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There is a new section on the Home Page "Electrify Everything"
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The complete list of the CACOR Zoom series from
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presentation #1 on 2020-04-15
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presentation # 115 on 2022-09-21
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To CACOR Members:
Are you interested in becoming a CACOR sponsor and Master of Ceremonies at one of our Zoom seminars? We seek someone who has not done this in the past and is willing to become involved. Contact Art at your earliest convenience. We can help you get involved.
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Seeking editors for the CACOR Website. Contact Art.
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Do you need to contact your Federal MP or Senator?
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(Please be advised that the wind storm damage in Ontario and Quebec on 21 May was severe enough to cause us to postpone the scheduled presentation of 25 May by Virginia Hammon. It is expected that near normalcy will return by Wednesday. David Dougherty, coordinator of this Zoom series, has tested positive for COVID and is resting with medication. Please be patient as we …
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The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think. Gregory Bateson, 1904-1980 anthropologist, cyberneticist, linguist, and social scientist
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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Climate Action Candidates win Big in Australian Election How are YOU going to vote next election? “Teal” candidates and Green party candidates won big in the recent Aussie election. Why? Simple – climate disaster are making peoples’ lives miserable. Floods. Fires. Heat waves. Species either going extinct or dying on a huge scale. Dying off of the Great Barrier Reef. …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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State of Climate in 2021: Extreme events and major impacts Past 7 years set to be the warmest on record, sea level rise at new high Global annual mean temperature difference from preindustrial conditions (1850–1900) for six global temperature data sets (see notes for editors). Geneva, 31 October 2021 (WMO) - Record atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations and associated accumulated heat …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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Julian Cribb presents to the Citizens' Climate Lobby Canberra Chapter on "Surviving the 21st Century". Julian points to ten "mega-risks" confronting humanity, not just climate change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m19htUJ0N3Y
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Climate
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Massive global energy disruptions are coming. Brace yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PJB5ClES6w Global energy disruptions are already in the news for all the wrong reasons. But according to a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency, you ain't seen nothing yet! 15 million jobs are set to be lost from the fossil fuel industry in the coming years, but more than three …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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OK Canada, it is your move now. Do something similar. By Elisa Wood The microgrid tax credit cleared the US House of Representatives in a vote approving President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act (H.R. 5376). The 30% tax credit would apply to microgrid controllers for projects that begin construction before Jan. 1, 2027. It is part of a roughly $2 trillion …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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The CACOR Global Modelling Project Team consisted of Art Hunter, Bob Fletcher, Paul Baack, Robert Hoffman, Stan Isbrandt, Allan Jones, Max McConnell, Ian Nalder, and Ed Napke. Their August 1993 report in this article advocates, in the face of a continuing failure to address the problem of societal sustainability, for better modelling. Link to | Concepts for a New Generation …
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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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Today’s college graduates can become the generation to succeed “where my generation has failed” the UN chief said on Tuesday, urging the class of 2022, not to work for “climate wreckers” in industries that continue to profit from fossil fuels.
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Just Have a Think Stirling engines have been around since the nineteenth century. They are an elegantly simple way of generating power using temperature differentials, but nobody ever found a way to make them efficient enough for wide scale use. Now a UK company has developed a heat pump system based on the principles of the Stirling Engine, but …
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Just Have a Think Solar panels are highly sensitive to what you might call 'sub-optimal' conditions...wrong angle of the sun, scattered sunlight, dust & sand, too much heat - all these things diminish the panels ability to generate power. But now a research team reckon they've overcome all those problems by creating a spherical version of the common solar PV …
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Man powers his street with ‘microgrid’ house National Post (Latest Edition) 25 May 2022 MARCO VIGLIOTTI OTTAWA • It pays to have a neighbour like Art Hunter. The retired government scientist, whose resumé includes working on the Canadarm, is providing his rural Manotick, Ont., neighbours with electricity to power their fridges, freezers, cellphones, electric kettles and much more. It’s all …
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CBC Radio contacted Art Hunter on the use of his microgrid to assist neighbours. Rick Carpenter was behind sending these media people to talk to him
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Just Have a Thinc Global energy disruptions are already in the news for all the wrong reasons. But according to a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency, you ain't seen nothing yet! 15 million jobs are set to be lost from the fossil fuel industry in the coming years, but more than three times that will be created …
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To move V2G forward, new incentives and policies are needed that allow EV owners to reap income. In some regions, demand response programs offer a way for EV owners to do that.
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