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Stay Informed
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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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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) Summary: A medical perspective on health risks of environmental toxins and costs to the Canadian taxpayer illustrates the urgent need to improve environmental public health. Fortuitously, …
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"Plan to Survive", a CACOR publication is available. PDF link...
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The area is totally disfigured. We're heartbroken, we're exhausted. (This fire) is the last straw. Jean-Louis Dartiailh, Mayor of Hostens Hostens is a commune in the Gironde department in southwestern France, 35 km south of Bordeaux. Ce mercredi matin (10 aout), on déplorait 6 000 hectares de forêt brulés sur le secteur d'Hostens. Une telle vitesse de propagation est inédite. …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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Did life on Earth begin on land or in water? Ancient rocks are helping to piece together the origins of life Photo via @newscientist Did life on Earth begin on land or in water? Ancient rocks are helping to piece together the origins of life Redrawing the geological timeline of Earth’s first billion years is casting new light on whether …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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Every society is a social experiment that we can learn from. – Jarrod Diamond The bigger they are, the mightier they fall. Germany is an industrial power house and the dominant player as Europe tries to lead the world towards a sustainable future. However, for the moment, that bright light is fading. Angela Merkel, the former German Chancellor, made what …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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This research paper – drawing on insights from 200 experts – highlights that, within the current decade, climate hazards are expected to have increasingly serious disruptive impacts. While many hazards may now be inevitable, action on adaptation has the potential to limit the worst expected climate impacts, at regional and global levels. The 10 hazard-impact pathways of greatest near-term concern …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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Researchers from the University of Glasgow have developed a new type of heat pump, a flexible heat pump technology, which could help households save on their energy bills and contribute toward net-zero emissions goals. Heat pumps are a low-carbon alternative to gas boilers. They draw energy from external low-temperature sources, most commonly outdoor air, in order to heat indoor spaces. …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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There's a lot to like about ammonia. This colorless fuel emits no carbon dioxide when burned. It's abundant and common, and it can be made using renewable electricity, water, and air. Both fuel cells and internal combustion engines can use it. Unlike hydrogen, it doesn't have to be stored in high-pressure tanks or cryogenic dewars. And it has 10 times …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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Peter Krek, a prize-winning undergraduate student at Guelph, wrote this article about our life and lives. He delved into ozone depletion, with a focus on the effects of ultraviolet light on plants, animals, and humans. He felt that we were failing ourselves at the time. Link to | Environmental Choices and Human Perspective
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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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Water. Energy. Food. Health. And money. I’ll call them, for simplicity’s sake, the Five Pillars of Human Civilization. A society like Britain is running out of water, and yet nobody seems too bothered, until it happens, personally, to them. This surreal horror nightmare of indifference, incompetence, a total lack of any kind of plan, agenda, or solution for the problem is …
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This is the story of a massive infrastructure development. Operations and security are massive employment generators. It is still under development with another tunnel. Interestingly, they use UVC (ultraviolet band C) radiation to kill off all bacteria, viruses. molds and other pathogens at several points along its delivery routes.
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Communities interested in cleaner energy, as well as greater control over their electric supply and reliability, are increasingly turning to microgrids — miniature power systems that serve an individual facility or area with electricity, either on its own or in concert with a larger power grid. Typically, a microgrid consists of energy generation and energy storage that can power a …
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Finland is the first country in the world to devise a system to permanently store all the radioactive waste generated by its nuclear power plants. Currently power plants have only temporary — and sometimes dangerous — solutions.
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Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives went into the 2018 Ontario election campaign promising, among other things, to fix the province’s “hydro mess.” In practice, fixing the hydro “mess” turned out to be a lot more complicated than it sounded. In the end, the first Ford government did little more than double down on its Liberal predecessor’s mistakes and then added a few …
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Chances are good that you’re heard of cognitive dissonance theory, but how well do you know the ins and outs of it? My job today is to demystify cognitive dissonance. By the end of this video, you’ll have a better sense of what cognitive dissonance is and what effects it produces. Even more, you’ll know more about why and when …
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As the planet gets hotter, engineers are racing to find ways to store energy on a massive scale, clearing the way for a transition to renewable electricity.
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On Aug 5, 2022, at 12:56 AM, Andrew Gaines wrote: I asked a young friend of mine how concerned she was about climate change. She thought for a moment, and gave me two answers: Part of me is really freaked. 10 +. And for part of me it is about 7. I noticed a similar response in myself when I …
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