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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 # 127 on 2022-12-14
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Are you interested in becoming a CACOR sponsor and Master of Ceremonies at one of our Zoom webinars? 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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Speaker: Dr. Delon Omrow Topic: Crimes Against the Planet? Time: Jul 20, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Competing criminological perspectives weigh in on how to define crimes against the environment. The strict legalist approach adopts a very rigid definition, while the social legalist perspective embraces a more holistic approach to documenting various harms against the planet. The …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Dr. Art Hunter Topic: The Energy Transition: How Microgrids Can Help Rebuild Ontario's Power Grid and Electrify Everything. Time: Jul 27, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84842484622?pwd=QlM1ZHNhM2ZhZXNWNm9WZEVHZ25ZQT09 Meeting ID: 848 4248 4622 Passcode: 909587 Summary: Grid modernization and expanded use of renewable energy resources, like solar …
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I smell War – a Lesson from the Beehive To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. – George Washington I smell war – and it stinks. But my nose is seldom wrong. What kind of war? I don’t know? When exactly? I don’t know. I just feel this ever-building tension in the …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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Europe's major tourist sites battle climate change to survive by Alex Whitting, Horizon: The EU Research & Innovation Magazine Climate change is destroying heritage sites across Europe and globally. Ancient historical landmarks could disappear completely unless swift action is taken to protect them from environmental damage, researchers are warning. Future generations may never get to explore streets conquered by medieval knights …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise lösen, durch die sie entstanden sind. Albert Einstein Ruben Nelson's challenge: Accept that Einstein’s quip applies to us. The real challenge and barrier to change is how to ‘socially construct a personal-to-civilisational-scale transition to a …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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US technology company Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) announced that it is building the 240-MWh California Flats energy storage project next to the namesake solar farm in Monterey County, California. The storage facility will be hooked to the California Flats solar farm, specifically to its 130-MW portion that Apple contracted under a power purchase agreement (PPA) for its operations in the US …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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What can you say about governments that, in the midst of a global food crisis, choose instead to feed machines? You might say they were crazy, uncaring or cruel. But these words scarcely suffice when you seek to describe the burning of food while millions starve. There’s nothing complicated about the effects of turning crops into biofuel. If food is used …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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Tesla held a virtual power plant (VPP) workshop for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) on May 31. Gail Alfar, the writer at What’s Up Tesla?, attended and shared her thoughts. Also in May, Tesla made a request for Powerwall owners in Texas to opt into the Tesla ERCOT Demonstration to show the utility exactly how well VPPs work. Gail noted that the workshop was …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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Margaret Catley-Carlson, President of the Population Council (New York, NY, USA), gave a talk to the Foundation for International Training in June 1994. This article was based on that event. It has a focus on the human population explosion and how we might manage it. In particular, she pointed out various "sticky management issues" that had arisen: pronatalism, target-based coercion, …
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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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Renewables giant Iberdrola has inaugurated its 1.2GW Tâmega hydroelectric complex in northern Portugal that combines three hydropower plants with pumped hydro with a capacity to store 40GWh of electricity – sufficient to provide 11 million people with power for 24 hours. Construction of the facility took almost eight years and cost some €1.5bn ($1.54bn).
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What is the best home EV charger? Take a look at our top picks which include brands like Electrify America, Blink, and ChargePoint. Written by Ed Bott, Senior Contributing Editor on April 20, 2022
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I can’t thank you enough for all the data you pulled together to share it with us. Your channel was prolly the one that gave me the most conviction to buy more Tesla shares.
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The oceans’ and seas’ food security predicament is as catastrophic as is terrestrial food security. The oceans carry a significant hope for the future. Blue food (food drawn from the oceans, seas and estuaries) is the primary source of protein for billions of people yet it is not developed or managed to maximize its contribution or sustianablity. Clearly, both natural …
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Just Have a Think Climate solutions are desperately needed right now. You might not immediately think of going to the mining industry to find one of them though. But research shows shows that the unwanted by-product of the mining industry, rock dust, could be a transformational supplement to agricultural soils all over the world.
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