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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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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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We have a new search function exclusively for the YouTube series under development and will be developing an "index" for ease of finding relevant presentations.
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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: 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) Summary: Dr. Karen Shragg will illuminate the missing piece for why wildlife is losing the battle of survival, our growth and takeover of the landscape. Sprawl is now documented to be related to population growth. Avoiding this topic …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Our format will differ from our standard. This presentation will be done in two parts: Part 1: You are encouraged to view the 1-hour YouTube video in advance of the Wednesday meeting as it will not be played during the scheduled Zoom session. A non injury producing civilization Part 2: We will …
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Hurricane Ian is no anomaly. The climate crisis is making storms more powerful Michael E Mann and Susan Joy Hassol From The Guardian Sept 29, 2022 Ian is one of the five worst hurricanes in America’s recorded history. That’s not a fluke – it’s a tragic taste of things to come Fri 30 Sep 2022 10.00 BST The Guardian Climate …
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Declutter to Save the World! My house is a mess. My garage is worse. My clothes closet is…. Well, let’s put it this way: it dangerous. I am at the point where not only is clutter an eyesore but my nerves are fraying too. Yes, clutter makes anxiety worse. Yes, clutter stresses us all. Yes, clutter is a sign of …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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In the film Rashomon, four people (a bandit, a samurai, his wife, and a woodcutter) narrate the details of a crime differently. Their stories are plausible, yet contradictory. The film touches upon the unreliability of eyewitnesses and the subjective nature of truth, reality, and memory. This phenomenon is also known as the Rashomon effect. The traditional story of the elephant and …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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A newly passed bill will open up community solar subscriptions for people who can’t put panels on their roofs — and deliver clean power when the grid needs it most. California leads the nation in rooftop solar installations by a long shot. But it has never managed to craft a viable community solar market for people who can’t put panels on their own roofs. That’s …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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Jane Dougan, from the arboretum in Guelph, described how, in an ever more complex world, we need to find new and better ways to learn, but also to act on what we learn. Link to | Programs for Futures Education
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers
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We interviewed the core team at Norway's World Wide Wind (WWW) to learn more about its floating, tilting, contra-rotating, double turbine design, which it says can unlock unprecedented scale, power and density to radically lower the cost of offshore wind. To briefly recap our article from August 30, WWW has designed a floating offshore wind turbine unlike any other. Indeed, it's …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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By Kenneth Mohammed As Winston Churchill reportedly said in the 1940s as he was working to co-form what would become the United Nations: “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” It is advice the giant oil and energy corporations and Opec, enabled by politicians, have taken to heart. This is reflected in the price of petrol and our ballooning heating …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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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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"You're looking at a state-of-the-art facility," said Dr. Kabalan. Founded in 2019, he studies microgrids at the research center. Microgrids are small, self-contained energy networks that can be run on-site. Dr. Kabalan says they're more reliable than central or state power grids, like the one in Texas that went down during a winter storm last year, leaving millions without electricity …
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Just Have a Think Hydrogen is not easy to store. To get it into a manageable form it either has to be highly compressed or cryogenically chilled, both of which are expensive and energy hungry processes. Now two separate and completely unconnected teams claim to have worked out how to store hydrogen in powder form. So is this a genuine …
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In 2013, the California Independent System Operator published a chart that is now commonplace in conversations about large-scale deployment of solar photovoltaic (PV) power. The duck curve—named after its resemblance to a duck—shows the difference in electricity demand and the amount of available solar energy throughout the day. When the sun is shining, solar floods the market and then drops …
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As the world struggles with the soaring power course, there is one woman in Japan who has discovered how to dodge the worldwide energy crisis. In fact, she has not paid a single electricity bill in the last 10 years and lives completely off the power grid.
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The company uses captured carbon dioxide to make sustainable aviation fuel at its reactor in New York City. JetBlue and Virgin Atlantic have pledged huge orders.
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“What did they know and when did they know it?” We could add “what did they do about it” to the key questions for investigators and lawyers holding the powerful to account, whether tobacco companies or in the growing field of climate litigation. Big Oil has understood the catastrophic consequences of its products for a very long time — …
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