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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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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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Speaker: Dr. Madeline Weld Topic: Green Growth: the Mantra of Our Cognitive Dissonance. Time: Jul 13, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: The Canadian government lays out plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and implement green energy policies, while at the same time massively increasing immigration levels in order to drive rapid population growth. This population growth has …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Dr. Delon Omrow Topic: Crimes Against the Planet? Time: Jul 20, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88098422645?pwd=L0NDdnpod21ZTlFvTUU1ZmZUWVBNQT09 Meeting ID: 880 9842 2645 Passcode: 717773 Summary: Competing criminological perspectives weigh in on how to define crimes against the environment. The strict legalist approach adopts a very rigid …
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World Population Day: India will overtake China in 2023, says the UN By Stephanie Hegarty Population correspondent Share IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES Image caption, People jostle for space in a crowded street in Delhi India is set to become the world's most populous country next year, overtaking China with its 1.4bn people, according to UN figures. By this November, the planet …
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It’s a beautiful day in the Neighbourhood, so why am I never Content? Welcome to Mr. Roger’s View of the World Today’s question is this: “Can you & I shift our perspectives so that we are content with ourselves and content with living in our “neighbourhood”? I was not a fan of Mr. Rogers, the American kids show superstar, …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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By Amanda L Gordon It feels like a precipice moment for Palm Beach, a Florida town in the throes of a waterfront mansion-building mania just as the impacts of climate change start pushing in. At the town council’s regular meeting this past week, officials talked about the need to raise the grade of a beloved bike trail—and, at the same …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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An NPR/Ipsos poll released in January revealed that the overwhelming majority of Americans believe that U.S. democracy is “in crisis and at risk of failing.” What the poll does not disclose, of course, is the anomalous situation of the United States in comparison to other democracies. For starters, the U.S. is a very conservative and militaristic country, with a two-party …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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As heat ramps up ahead of what forecasters say will be a hotter than normal summer, electricity experts and officials are warning that states may not have enough power to meet demand in the coming months. And many of the nation's grid operators are also not taking climate change into account in their planning, even as extreme weather becomes more …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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It is time to recognize that the climate change crisis is but a symptom of a complex of interrelated problems that threaten life on Earth, the root of which is humankind’s failure to comprehend that economic growth, as indicated by year-over-year increases in Gross Domestic Product, cannot be sustained on a planet with a finite endowment of material resources. Robert …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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Walter Lichem, Austrian Ambassador to Canada, gave a lunchtime talk to CACOR in May 1994, which was the basis for this article. He pointed out that there was a large amount of information about our global environmental crisis but that there was an intellectual gap between intellectual analysis and public policy. We knew what the problems were, but we were …
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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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X-energy’s flexible, safe, scalable design that meets several of Canada’s clean energy goals as an enabler in a large electricity system or as an all-in-one solution for self-sufficiency in remote communities including district heating and water desalination.
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Volkswagen is one of the many vehicle companies seeking to explore different models of electric vehicles. It wants to set a standard of innovation and sustainability, moving closely behind Tesla in electric vehicle manufacture. Each factory will operate solely on electricity from regenerative sources. Plans are in place for renewable storage systems for the energy grid. On sustainability, German Chancellor …
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Indigenous-led projects receiving funding through the Indigenous Energy Support Programs will help develop renewable generation, electric-vehicle charging, energy-efficiency measures, community energy planning, as well as skills development and training opportunities for youth. Building local capacity enables Indigenous communities and organizations to participate and take a leading role in Ontario's energy sector while also empowering future generations. Awareness and education initiatives will …
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A new year-round ozone hole has been discovered above the tropics and scientists are trying to figure out the impact on the ecosystem and humankind. The depletion of the ozone layer can lead to increased ground-level UV radiation, this can increase risk of cancer and poor immune systems, and impact agricultural productivity and ecosystems. This ozone hole is seven times …
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13 July 2022 The Honourable Steven Guilbeault, MP Minister of Environment and Climate Change House of Commons, Ottawa, Canada K1A 0A6 Dear Minister Guilbeault, Re: Carbon Capture and Storage The Canadian Association for the Club of Rome (CACOR) urges extreme caution in over-reliance on the use of carbon capture and storage (CCS) to reach Canada’s required emission reduction targets. Given …
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See what three degrees of global warming looks like. If global temperatures rise three degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the results would be catastrophic. It’s an entirely plausible scenario, and this film shows you what it would look like. The best way to deal with a 3 Degree World is not to go there. Link to | The Economist's …
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It’s time to #UnfoldTheUniverse. Watch as the mission team reveals the long-awaited first images from the James Webb Space Telescope. Webb, an international collaboration led by NASA with our partners the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, is the biggest telescope ever launched into space. It will unlock mysteries in our solar system, look beyond to distant worlds …
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Distributed Energy Resources can help a business, homes and communities use energy more efficiently by creating it on-site and storing it for use at peak operating times. Once a DER disconnects from the grid, it becomes a microgrid.
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Breakthrough Energy Source is 10X Better Than Wind & Solar. There are new designs. There is great potential to use the very predictable tides to produce power in coastal areas, which are where most of humanity lives. Link to | Tidal Power
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Just Have a Think Gravity energy storage has real potential to provide cheap reliable grid balancing electricity to compliment the ever growing volume of intermittent renewables on our power grids, but only if it's done in the right way. Two companies, Energy Vault and Gravitricity have both taken radically different approaches to the problem. So, who will come out on …
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