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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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Speaker: Julian Cribb Topic: The Age of Renewable Food. How we can feed everyone, bring peace, and end extinction. Time: Sept 21, 2022 19:00 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: The world food supply is balanced on a knife edge—growing less and less secure as our numbers and demands increase. The climate in which agriculture arose is now extinct, half the topsoil …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Dr. Karen Shragg Topic: Sprawling Over America: Why the Endangered Species Act Isn't Enough. Time: Sep 28, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82043410851?pwd=SFVnVG5pamtGNHNHQlh2VHQ4aG1LUT09 Meeting ID: 820 4341 0851 Passcode: 068550 Summary: Dr. Karen Shragg will illuminate the missing piece for why wildlife is losing the battle of survival, our …
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The theme this year is ‘Women as Agents of Change.’ It reminds us of the potential in our societies that is yet to be fully unlocked, and it encourages us to find ways to allow all girls and women to play their full part. Queen Elizabeth II Meeting of Commonwealth Heads of Government in Perth, Australia, October 2011
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Categories: Articles, Quotes, Women Issues and Perspectives
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Slow Down if you want to Save the World Nature never hurries, yet much is accomplished. – Lao Tzu My brother was doing some research on voter interest on the environment and climate action. It seemed to come down to this: when economic times were good in rich countries people had the “luxury” of actually caring and demanding legislation …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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GLOBAL RISKS 2022 Download Report The Global Risks Report 2022 The World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2022 presents the results of the latest Global Risks Perception Survey, followed by analysis of key risks emanating from current economic, societal, environmental and technological tensions. According to the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2022: Top risks are climate crisis, growing social …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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Dr. Digby McLaren, past President of the Royal Society of Canada and past chairman of CACOR, outlined his correspondence with Nathan Keyfitz regarding Nathan's paper on Demographic Discord. The main point was that classical economics deserves to be kicked aside because it is fundamentally dangerous. We need to stop the way it holds sway over us. Ecologists don't often offer …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers
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by Garrett Hardin, Psychology Today, September 1974 Environmentalists use the metaphor of the earth as a "spaceship" in trying to persuade countries, industries and people to stop wasting and polluting our natural resources. Since we all share life on this planet, they argue, no single person or institution has the right to destroy, waste, or use more than a fair …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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Norway's World Wide Wind has a radically different take on offshore wind power. These floating, vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) feature two sets of blades, tuned to contra-rotate – and they promise more than double the output of today's biggest turbines. Taking wind farms way offshore can certainly help make them less obtrusive, and open up a lot more opportunities – …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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By Mitchell Beer After a half-century of research and development, carbon capture and storage projects are far more likely to fail than to succeed, and nearly three-quarters of the carbon dioxide they manage to capture each year is sold off to fossil companies and used to extract more oil, according to a sweeping industry assessment released today by the Institute …
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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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Climate change is already costing Canadian households billions of dollars—and these costs are just the tip of the iceberg. Our Costs of Climate Change series documents how Canada is already suffering from increasingly devastating wildfires, floods, and extreme weather. These damages will continue to worsen as the climate warms, putting people’s long-term prosperity, health, and well-being at risk. Our research shows, however, …
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More than one million households in the Netherlands are struggling to pay energy bills that have doubled or tripled in recent months. Increasingly, people have decided to cut themselves off from gas, even though winter is coming. The Netherlands has the highest gas prices in Europe.
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Ladies and gentlemen of the media. Thank you very much. I have just concluded two meetings with a number of Heads of State and Government to talk about the climate emergency and the triple global crisis of food, energy, and finance. My messages were stark. On the climate emergency: The 1.5-degrees limit is on life support – and it is …
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Demographers, data scientists and public-health experts are striving to narrow the uncertainties for a global estimate of pandemic deaths. These efforts, from both academics and journalists, use methods ranging from satellite images of cemeteries to door-to-door surveys and machine-learning computer models that try to extrapolate global estimates from available data. Among these models, the World Health Organization (WHO) is still …
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Right about now, you’re probably feeling overwhelmed. With all the chaos out there. This is the Age of Too Much Chaos. Every day brings a new catastrophe, it seems, and with it, an ever-mounting sense of dread, urgency, anger, and helplessness — the weird, upsetting feelings of now. End Times Vibes. How to make sense of all this? I bet …
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TED talk Nuclear power is one of the safest, cleanest forms of energy -- yet to most people, it might not feel that way. Why is that? Isabelle Boemeke, the world's first nuclear energy influencer and creator of the social media persona Isodope, deftly debunks the major objections to nuclear power and explains her unconventional way of educating people about …
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New rooftop solar projects in Puerto Rico are being put to the test by the severe storm, which hit the U.S. territory nearly five years after Hurricane Maria
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The world is currently suffering an energy crisis driven by high temperatures, the war in Ukraine, and a removal of baseload power generation. States like California have faced rolling blackouts and calls from the state for citizens to not charge their electric vehicles. To address this issue, states should adopt the use of microgrids to increase power generation and provide in times of …
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Emerging technology commonly refers to technologies that are currently developing, or that are expected to be available within the years ahead, and is usually reserved for technologies that are creating, or are expected to create significant social or economic effects. And since technology today is evolving at a rapid pace, enabling faster change and progress, causing an acceleration of the …
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Just Have a Think. The arctic region is a key driver of global climate patterns. In the summer of 2022, three peer reviewed research papers were published, all of which showed the systems that have kept the arctic stable for thousands of years are now collapsing far more quickly than previous analysis and modelling had suggested. A fourth paper, published …
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