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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. Signup and previous weekly newsletters are available here.
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There is a new section on the Home Page "Hoffman Hall of Honour" Where CACOR shall honour those that make noteworthy contributions to the CACOR Mission. Robert Hoffman is the first. The eligibility, selection process and frequency of update is still under development but it is available for viewing.
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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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Speaker: Virginia Hammon Topic: Money Matters: A Fulcrum for Change. Time: Jun 15, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Usually when we think about money matters we think about not having enough, but digging deeper, the money system has a formative influence on societal developments. It can work for or against the general welfare. It can hinder or support our …
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You are invited to a scheduled CACOR Zoom meeting. Speaker: Ruben Nelson Topic: Transcending Our MTI Form of Civilization: Exploring the New Core Work of the 21st Century. Time: Jun 22, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81210114068?pwd=Y3UzMXRzK0FYZFFmMk42d21UM3J2dz09 Meeting ID: 812 1011 4068 Passcode: 867344 Summary: I will start where Bill Rees often finishes: “We must …
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DUE NORTH Climate change is widening the Northern infrastructure gap and putting communities at risk. The fourth report in our Costs of Climate Change series finds that climate change threatens Northern infrastructure that is already in poor condition from decades of neglect, with potentially catastrophic costs and devastating impacts to Northern lives and livelihoods. See: https://climateinstitute.ca/reports/due-north-costs-of-climate-change/ for the summary and …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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The world’s economies are encountering biophysical limits that are showing up in many ways, already disastrous for species such as the Pinta Island Tortoise, the Eastern Cougar, the Pyrenean Ibex, the Formosa Clouded Leopard, the Vietnamese Rhinoceros, the Christmas Island Pipistrelle, the Chinese Paddlefish, the Alaotra Grebe, the Long Jaw Tristamella, the Yangtze River Dolphin, the Black-Faced Honeycreeper, the Golden …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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To be Anti Growth is to be Pro humanity DeGrowth or Bust – The Implications for our Immigration Policy Do you consider this a radical thought? Being pro continual exponential growth is like being pro cancer: it means you worship the God of Growth at any cost – even you own death. Now, there are implications if you realize that …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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Adrian Harewood, the host of Our Ottawa on CBC, interviewed CACOR's own Dr. Art Hunter about putting his microgrid to good use during the massive, city-wide power outage caused by the derecho on May 21, 2022. The devastating storm in Ottawa took out much of the power grid but the Manotick Microgrid was not impacted and was used to assist …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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Keep calm & shine on! ☀️ We’re excited to announce our partnership with @SunPower, a leading #solar tech & #energy services provider, to offer home solar solutions enabling California IKEA Family members to generate renewable energy at home. Learn more: https://t.co/agvfVV2xgq pic.twitter.com/BWDM9ignoR — IKEA USA News (@IKEAUSANews) May 12, 2022 Swedish furniture-giant IKEA wants to bring the power of the sun …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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What's happening There have been five mass extinction events in Earth's history, and some researchers say we're in the midst of a sixth. Why it matters Once we lose a species, it's gone forever. Species losses could have dire consequences for humans, scientists say. What's next People can help prevent extinctions in ways like volunteering with a conservation organization or …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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In April 1994, Dr. Digby McLaren, former President of the Royal Society of Canada and a CACOR director at the time, gave this lecture to the Faculty of Management at the University of Calgary. It includes a wide-ranging review of our society, including its recent history, and its effects on the Earth, plus a brief exploration of economics. Dr. McLaren …
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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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The warnings were certainly there. In 1998, former utility executive John Casazza predicted that "blackout risks will be increased" if plans for deregulating electric power went ahead. And the warnings continued to be heard from other energy experts and planners. So it could not have been a great surprise to the electric-power industry when, on 14 August 2003, a blackout …
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It’s clear that damage to the power grid, whether the work of enemies or due to some natural disaster, would be disastrous to our country. Unfortunately, according to the report of the congressionally funded EMP Commission, power grid failure for one year would result in the death of nine out of every 10 Americans.
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1. Nature Has Everything You Need The Indians had to get everything they needed from nature, and they did. Whether it was flint to start a fire or animal skins to make clothes, they found everything they needed in the world around them. Few of us would be able to survive if we were just dumped in the wilderness with …
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On the left is energy Home Usage of 17.1 kWh with the Manotick Microgrid. Typically for this time of year I guess it is 20 kWh but that is with air conditioning and EV charging. In the above, there is no EV charging or air conditioning running in this 24 hours. What you do see are 4 spikes during the …
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Paraphrasing Isaac Asimov, the overpopulation issue operates under its own weather system and is so detrimental to humanity that the best way to keep it on track to wipe us and our fellow creatures out is to do nothing. He points out that at least with nuclear war we have to do something. We are very busy doing nothing, and …
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Our electricity planners are doubling down on their plans to make Ontario’s climate problems worse. Just as cities across Ontario clean up from the terrible storms that raced across the province a few weeks ago, the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) is gearing up to add NEW polluting gas-fired power plants to our electricity system.
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In June 2022, it was fifty years since the first United Nations conference on the human environment took place--the 1972 Stockholm Conference. The Government of Sweden hosted a UN, high-level meeting on 2-3 June 2022 to commemorate this anniversary. The aim was to contribute to accelerating a transformation that leads to sustainable and green economies, more jobs, and a healthy …
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With the rapid reduction in the costs of renewable energy generation, such as wind and solar power, there is a growing need for energy storage technologies to make sure that electricity supply and demand are balanced properly. IIASA researchers have come up with a new energy storage concept that could turn tall buildings into batteries to improve the power quality …
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With over half the world’s population now living in urban areas, making cities safer is a long-term challenge that can be achieved. Cities are engines of national growth and dynamic in their governance systems and capacities. Throughout history, disaster events have disrupted urban life. An extreme and changing climate, earthquakes, and emergencies triggered by man-made hazards are increasingly putting pressure on people and threatening the prosperity …
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