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Stay Informed

CACOR's weekly newsletter
August 27, 2022
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
presentation #1 on 2020-04-15
to
presentation # 127 on 2022-12-14
Presentation spreadsheet
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To CACOR Members:

CACOR has added a new google group [email protected]
"A CACOR group focused on GHG reduction techniques integrated into a plan to survive an extinction event." If any CACOR member wishes to join this group, contact Richard van der Jagt or Art Hunter.
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Seeking editors for the CACOR Website. Contact Art at [email protected].
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Do you want to contact your Federal MP or Senator?
List of emails for Canadian Members of Parliament and Senators. (canadiancor.com).
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Archived Articles Revisited:

This is your weekly personal list of three random articles extracted from our website archives. These links are unique to you and are more than one year old. The intention is to deliver a sense of what was considered a priority on that date compared with today's latest articles and presentations. You are encouraged to share these links with your social media and other networks.
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Latest Presentation

Upcoming Events

CACOR Zoom Presentation | Andrew Gaines | Introducing a New Paradigm for Social Change. | 2022-08-31

CACOR Zoom Presentation | Andrew Gaines | Introducing a New Paradigm for Social Change. | 2022-08-31

You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Andrew Gaines Topic: Introducing a New Paradigm for Social Change. Time: Aug 31, 2022  18:00 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Please note the time is Wednesday 6 p.m Eastern time which is Thursday 9 a.m in Australia. Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84302088720?pwd=dGRiWFBpc1p2ZmZUOE9ZUXRSVkw2Zz09 Meeting ID: 843 0208 8720 Passcode: 979273 Summary: This webinar will induce ways …

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Latest Articles

Morality: air travel

The globe has become a huge interconnected Petri dish and incubator, that we perpetuate with unnecesary international air travel. From it will come the virus that will not be stopped in time to save millions of people. Michael Steeves Member of CACOR, CMOS, and Rotary Club

Categories: Articles, Quotes

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Morality: air travel

Less is More Part I - What are YOU doing to DOWNSIZE your living space?

Less is More Part I - What are YOU doing to DOWNSIZE your living space?
Less is More Part I - What are YOU doing to DOWNSIZE your living space? Less is More – expression coined by Minimalist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Have you seen the movie Downsizing with Matt Damon? Don’t bother. It’s silly and banal, although its premise is a good one. To save the world a Norwegian scientist has figured …

Categories: Articles, What are you doing

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Ontario’s deepening hydro mess

by Mark Winfield. Originally published on Policy Options The Ford government is surprisingly unwilling to explore renewable energy projects despite the wide range of options available to it. 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 …

Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups

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High-voltage electricity poles

Heatwave is New Normal

Heatwave is New Normal
“This heatwave is the new normal,” says WMO Secretary-General Records broken across Britain. Tags: Climate   Climate change Drought Public health Pollution Published 29 July 2022 Focus on: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Without human-caused climate change temperatures of 40°C in the United Kingdom would have been extremely unlikely, according to a rapid analysis from a group of internationally renowned …

Categories: Articles, Trending

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Power beyond battery

By Logan Leo Stacked cement blocks. dissolved salt. A flywheel. compressed air Water was pumped to higher reservoirs. And… good old battery. Energy storage technologies are booming. Since renewable energies are often intermittent, it is necessary to find bridges between windy and sunny moments. Since last year, Hydro-Québec has set out to conquer the planet’s energy storage markets. Its EVLO …

Categories: Articles, Solutions

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EVLO energy storage system

Middle East wakes up to climate change destruction

Air pollution in Jerusalem, Israel
By Lee Keath Temperatures in the Middle East have risen far faster than the world’s average in the past three decades. Precipitation has been decreasing, and experts predict droughts will come with greater frequency and severity. The Middle East is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to the impact of climate change — and already the effects are …

Categories: Articles, Climate

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Questions (from Buzz Nixon)—From CACOR Archives

CW (Buzz) Nixon, past chairman of CACOR and active volunteer, mused about the myriad problems facing mankind.  This was part of The 5000 Days meeting.  He presented 33 questions, such as "Why have we managed to create a predicament which is almost precisely what we have been trying to avoid?"  He concluded by asking "Will mankind take this action ?  …

Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers

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CACOR Writers Quill Pens

How well are we doing?

How well are we doing?
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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Breaking News

How a Canadian coffee roaster is replacing container ships with sailboats to decarbonize its supply chain — and cutting costs in the process

The idea of sustainable transportation likely conjures images of futuristic technologies and electric cars, as well as scientific advances that have yet to be achieved. But there's a burgeoning industry made up of sailors, coffee roasters, olive-oil companies, and wineries that's reverting to shipping practices of the past to move toward a net-zero future. "Sailing vessels are an incredible design that dates …

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Examining the transformation to EV mobility

Accelerated by the increasing threat of climate change, interest in electric mobility has escalated over the last four years, both within companies and across societies.  At the same time, legislative and societal pressure on companies to counter climate change through new products, processes, and purpose has grown as well.  The combination of these drivers have moved e-mobility topics up the …

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How to Prepare Your House for Climate Change

From fire-proofing to backup power, there are multiple ways to ready a home for climate impacts — and save money in the process.

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Tesla's HUGE Virtual Power Plant Explained (3 Benefits to TSLA Stock)

Tesla stock stands to gain over the long term from distributed energy. With Tesla's virtual power plant in California coming online, Tesla energy is going primetime. I break down my top 3 benefits of the VPP to Tesla, why customers join with their Powerwalls, and more.

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The 'Sand Battery' that heats your home, NOT the planet

The global energy crisis is starting to really hurt, and the prospects for winter fuel prices are starting to look pretty bleak for millions of people in the Northern hemisphere. So how do we get ourselves off our hopeless dependence on fossil fuels? And if the alternative is intermittent renewables then how are we going to keep our homes constantly …

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Diet for a hotter climate: five plants that could help feed the world

Over the course of human history, scientists believe that humans have cultivated more than 6,000 different plant species. But over time, farmers gravitated toward planting those with the largest yields. Today, just three crops – rice, wheat and corn – provide nearly half of the world’s calories. That reliance on a small number of crops has made agriculture vulnerable to …

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