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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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To CACOR Members:
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"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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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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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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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
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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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 …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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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 …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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“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 …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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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 …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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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 …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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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 ? …
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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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