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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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Do you need to contact your Federal MP or Senator?
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Speaker: Julian Cribb Topic: Our Existential Crisis: what is to be done? Time: Aug 3, 2022 19:00 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Humanity’s capacity to inflict mass harm on itself has been accelerating since the mid-21st Century and is now approaching a state where it can wreck civilization and, potentially, eliminate our species. Julian Cribb explores solutions to our greatest existential …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Improving Environmental Protection and Public Health: opportunities during Canadian legal and policy reform Speakers: Dr. Richard van der Jagt and Dr. Meg Sears Time: Aug 10, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88453339329?pwd=Sjc4eEI4eDdlUVpLZS9DWS9BdnIzdz09 Meeting ID: 884 5333 9329 Passcode: 530174 Summary: A medical perspective on health risks …
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Some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default. J.K. Rowling, author and philanthropist, b. 1965
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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Our Global Ponzi Scheme Seems to be Approaching Its End Ponzi Scheme – A Made in Canada Debacle Charles Ponzik 1920 Did you know that the Ponzi scheme had its genesis in Canada? Since this December is the 101st anniversary of the conviction of Charles Ponzi, its probably a good time to explore the Canadian side of the world’s most …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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Dr. John Hollins, past member of the Board of Directors and long-time member of CACOR, wrote a letter to the editorial board of the Globe and Mail, 25 July 2022. This came at a time when the Government of Canada is struggling with how to reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions. He concluded that, "Ottawa has to strike a careful …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Writers
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By Blessing Phebian The global fossil fuel crisis resulting from the Russia-Ukraine war has caused many countries to seek alternatives to fossil fuels. The UK has invested heavily in nuclear power, with a goal to generate a quarter of its energy supply by 2050. Britain is investing in developing new technologies, with reports in April of the Government’s £210million investment …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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For the first 50 years after plastic was invented, the idea of only using the long-lasting material once was blasphemous, an affront to values of frugality honed over years of war and economic strife. Then, in the late 1950s, the plastics industry launched a massive marketing campaign — and single-use plastic was born. “The happy day has arrived when nobody …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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Unlike in J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world, there are no Bowtruckles or Whomping Willows at the University of Alberta — but they do have a collection of trees that Newt Scamander could be proud of. More than 80 species of trees and tall shrubs call North Campus home. Some are native, but many species hail from around the globe. See photos …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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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 heat maps for the U.S. and the globe are quite revealing as to how serious the climate crisis has now become. All governments need to act now, not a few years down the road. How do we get this across?
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Senator Manchin is supporting the bill that former vice-president, Al Gore says “has the potential to be a historic turning point”. However, there is a catch, of course: Manchin has said the legislation “does not arbitrarily shut off our abundant fossil fuels” and has extracted guarantees of new offshore and onshore drilling, including a stipulation that millions more acres of …
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Just Have a Think Carbon Dioxide removal from our atmosphere is now an unavoidable and essential aspect of our climate mitigation challenge in the 21st Century. We've left it so late that just reducing our emissions is no longer enough. Now a UK based company called Brilliant Planet has perfected a method that, at full scale, can drawdown 2 billion …
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Electric car review. Here's Why I'll Die Before I Buy an Electric Car, DIY and car review Scotty Kilmer. Electric car review. Worst electric cars to buy. Buying a new electric car. Buying a used electric car. Should I buy an electric car. How much does it cost to run an electric car. Why not to buy a electric car. …
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A 10-day trial onboard a Spar Shipping AS bulk carrier enabled a reduction of at least 75% in carbon and sulphur emissions, and further confirms technical viability of GoodFuels’ sustainable marine biofuel. The trial was the first bio-bunkering undertaken by Spar Shipping AS and its ship management partner, Fleet Management Limited. The sustainable marine biofuel supplied by GoodFuels delivers a …
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