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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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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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Topic: The Value Crisis – Re-visioning What We Know Speaker: Andrew Welch Time: Sep 14, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: The amount of intellect and information represented by CACOR and its guest speakers is huge. Are the problems that we wrestle with really so intractable? Or are some of the answers hiding in plain sight? Basing this talk …
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Special time: 19:00 EDT Please note that the Zoom presentation next week will not be at the usual time. We are accommodating our special guest from Australia. The session will start at 19:00 EDT. The ZOOM door will open at 18:30 EDT. This will be on the evening of Wednesday, 21 September, 2022. This is Thursday morning (09:00) in Australia. You …
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World Is 'Heading in the Wrong Direction' as Impacts of Climate Change Worsen, UN Warns Abigail Adams Tue, September 13, 2022 at 2:50 PM·3 min read LEANDRO LOZADA/AFP via Getty The world is "heading in the wrong direction" when it comes to climate change, according to officials. The World Meteorological Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations, is warning …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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Pessimism is often indicative of exceptional privilege The planet we make will reflect the people we are. – Erle C. Ellis Want to know more about what pessimism and beavers have to do with our efforts to stop our destruction of life on Earth? Read on! Recently I have been accused of being a “doomer” by focusing too much on …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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… the rarest commodity at the White House, 10 Downing Street, the Élysée Palace, and 24 Sussex Drive is time. Presidents and prime ministers have recurring demands on their agenda, telephone calls to make, documents to read, political party matters to attend to, appointments to make, documents to read, meetings with foreign heads of state or government, meetings with their …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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As organizations move toward net-zero carbon initiatives, microgrids have become a driving force in the overall sustainability trajectory because of their expansive application across industries. Jana Gerber, microgrid North America president at Schneider Electric, explains. by Jana Gerber The need for advanced electrical storage and distributed energy resources to supplement the expansion of an industry’s energy and productive output, especially from renewable …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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In this article, AH (Drew) Wilson, past-President of the Engineering Institute of Canada and chairman of CACOR, touched on the dangers to the planetary ecosphere, but also to CACOR itself. He saw the risks to the planet as stemming from too many doing too much, and the risks to CACOR coming from opposing points of view. He concluded that, "It …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers
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By James Dyke, Robert Watson and Wolfgang Knorr Sometimes realisation comes in a blinding flash. Blurred outlines snap into shape and suddenly it all makes sense. Underneath such revelations is typically a much slower-dawning process. Doubts at the back of the mind grow. The sense of confusion that things cannot be made to fit together increases until something clicks. Or …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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“We must not believe those, who today, with philosophical bearing and deliberative tone, prophesy the fall of culture and accept the ignorabimus. For us there is no ignorabimus, and in my opinion none whatever in natural science. In opposition to the foolish ignorabimus our slogan shall be: We must know — we will know!” —David Hilbert What is Global Dimming? …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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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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It’s easy to believe life on Earth is getting ever worse. The media constantly highlight one catastrophe after another and make terrifying predictions. With the never-ending torrent of doom and gloom about climate change and the environment, it’s understandable why many people — especially the young — genuinely believe the world is about to end. But the fact is that though problems …
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Smart thermostats, solar-charged batteries, EVs and other household devices can shore up the stressed grid. Why isn’t the state going all in on incentives? Original article is here.. At around 5:45 p.m. on September 6, as state grid operator CAISO was preparing to initiate rolling blackouts to stave off grid collapse, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services issued a statewide text message alert asking people …
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Solid state batteries are a promising technology, although technical problems must be solved before they can be manufactured at an industrial scale. A new type of solid-state battery pioneered by startup Adden Energy points to a leap in performance and reliability. The startup uses an exclusive technology license from Harvard’s Office of Technology Development to develop solid-state battery systems for …
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Tesla’s Supercharger network in Iceland covers the whole island, enabling Tesla owners to drive all around it. The automaker has yet to expand the program to North America, where it will need an adapter to allow non-Tesla EVs to charge on the Supercharger network. But with its access to government subsidies predicated on expansion to other EV charging , it …
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Globally, an astonishing 298 long-term weather stations––including 265 in China––set their all-time heat records in August. Amazing data and graphics from around the globe. Link to | Hottest summer on record for Europe and China during Northern Hemisphere’s 2nd-hottest summer
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The founders have given the entire company away. It will continue operations and all profits will go to limiting climate change. Link to | Patagonia Has Been Donated
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In this captivating talk, journey into the surprisingly colorful nights of the Amazon Rainforest, as artistic entomologist Leo Lanna and designer Lvcas Fiat introduce us to the shapeshifting wonder of a creature they've fallen in love with: the praying mantis. Using an innovative approach that fuses science, art and conservation, Lanna and Fiat uncover the unimaginable biodiversity in this natural …
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Rising inequality and growing political instability are the direct result of decades of bad economic theory, says entrepreneur Nick Hanauer. In a visionary talk, he dismantles the mantra that "greed is good" -- an idea he describes as not only morally corrosive, but also scientifically wrong -- and lays out a new theory of economics powered by reciprocity and cooperation.
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Their findings are published in Cell Reports Physical Science. While researchers have been exploring the possibility of converting carbon dioxide to ethylene for more than a decade, the UIC team's approach is the first to achieve nearly 100% utilization of carbon dioxide to produce hydrocarbons. Their system uses electrolysis to transform captured carbon dioxide gas into high purity ethylene, with other carbon-based fuels and oxygen as byproducts. …
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Whisper Valley is a new eco-friendly master-planned community in Austin offering healthy lifestyle amenities and zero-energy capable homes starting from the $230s. Homes include solar panels to generate electricity and a high-energy efficient geothermal heating and cooling system to save up to 65 percent on typical monthly energy consumption. The entire community is connected together by an innovative geothermal loop …
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