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Stay Informed

CACOR's weekly newsletter
October 22, 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 the spring of 2023
https://canadiancor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/All-zooms-thru-spring-2023.pdf
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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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We have a new search function exclusively for the YouTube series . It is quite powerful and covers all the videos presently in our database.
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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

John Meyer | Pivoting on Climate and Depletion by Substituting Progress for Growth| CACOR Zoom presentation | 2022-10-19

John Meyer | Pivoting on Climate and Depletion by Substituting Progress for Growth| CACOR Zoom presentation | 2022-10-19

Speaker: John Meyer Topic: Pivoting on Climate and Depletion by Substituting Progress for Growth Time: Oct 19, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Business-as-usual will not see us through the threats which even now are beginning to seep under our front door.  We need new goals and metrics. Above all, we need a healthy national conversation and the …

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Upcoming Events

Dr. Charlie Hall | How much oil remains for the world to produce? Comparing assessment methods, and separating fact from fiction | CACOR Zoom 2022-10-26

Dr. Charlie Hall | How much oil remains for the world to produce? Comparing assessment methods, and separating fact from fiction | CACOR Zoom 2022-10-26

You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker:  Dr Charlie Hall Topic: How much oil remains for the world to produce? Comparing assessment methods, and separating fact from fiction Time: Oct 26, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81750253882?pwd=Vk5CenpJcnp3akIwL0Erazk1OVBTUT09 Meeting ID: 817 5025 3882 Passcode: 790420 Summary: This paper assesses how much oil remains to …

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Latest Articles

Certainty is absurd

Le doute n'est pas une état bien agréable, mais l'assurance est un état ridicule. "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." Voltaire (a nom de plume), 1694-1778, famous for his wit and his criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and of slavery.

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Certainty is absurd

Good News- Really!

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CONSERVATION PULSE Our latest conservation wins:  for full story and pictures see:  Conservation Pulse - WWF's latest conservation wins (panda.org) Note:  too much news these days is bad news, yet we can make a difference if we try.   This article from WWF shows a number of success stories which can show us some places where it is possible to control …

Categories: Articles, Trending

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A hydrogen microgrid for a home? A California utility achieves first step

Southern California Gas (SoCalGas) was the first large natural gas utility in the US to set a goal to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045. And it’s continuing to break barriers, this time by producing its first kilogram of renewable hydrogen meant for use in a residential hydrogen microgrid. According to Neil Navin, vice president of clean energy innovations …

Categories: Articles, Solutions

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Hydrogen microgrid with solar cell in isometric graphic

Love of the Earth—From CACOR Archives

CACOR Writers Quill Pens
Hendrik (Gus) van Haarten was a student in The 5000 Days course at U Guelph in 1993.  He was working towards a Masters degree in Environmental Studies at York U, with emphasis on issues in law and bioregionalism.  This essay was written while he was finishing his B.A. at Guelph, with a major in History and a minor in International …

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Greta Thunberg on the climate delusion: ‘We’ve been greenwashed out of our senses. It’s time to stand our ground’

Maybe it is the name that is the problem. Climate change. It doesn’t sound that bad. The word “change” resonates quite pleasantly in our restless world. No matter how fortunate we are, there is always room for the appealing possibility of improvement. Then there is the “climate” part. Again, it does not sound so bad. If you live in many …

Categories: Articles, What are you doing

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Greta Thunberg on the climate delusion: ‘We’ve been greenwashed out of our senses. It’s time to stand our ground’

Canada’s 2030 Climate Strategy: The Farce Continues

Canada’s 2030 Climate Strategy: The Farce Continues
Donald Trump (yes, that Donald Trump) beat Justin Trudeau in the race to reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions. We can safely put Canada’s Climate Action Plan 2030 announcement in the same category as Justin Trudeau's "Canada is back!" claim. In the period 2016 to 2019, JT's “We’re Back!” Canada was outperformed on emissions by Donald "Climate Change is a Chinese Plot" …

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Schneider and partners to pilot unusual EV microgrid in Oakland, California

As electric vehicles (EVs) and microgrids each grow in market share, their paths are intertwining, offering a vision of how together they will change power delivery. An example is a pilot project for a California library announced this week by Schneider Electric and several partners. It’s nothing new for microgrids to include EV charging stations. But it is unusual for …

Categories: Articles, Climate

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Schneider Electric Announces First-of-its-Kind Vehicle-to-Building Resilience Hub Powered by Transit Buses

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

Global warming puts Arabica coffee at risk, and we’re barrelling towards a crucial threshold

Coffee may be a major casualty of a hotter planet. Even if currently declared commitments to reduce emissions are met, our new research suggests coffee production will still rapidly decline in countries accounting for 75 per cent of the world’s Arabica coffee supply. Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica) is one of two main plant species we harvest coffee beans from. The plant …

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Ocean cleanup

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NASA’s giant telescope captures clearer view of ‘Pillars of Creation’

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a new view of an iconic cosmic site: the region known as the “Pillars of Creation,” where stars are born. The U.S. space agency’s Hubble Space Telescope first photographed the structure in 1995, revealing its columns of gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula star nursery 6,500 light-years away. It became one of …

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District Energy Sharing

We are your shared energy system. District Energy Sharing Systems are used across Canada and around the world. They are proven to last—and every Blatchford builder is on board with bringing this sustainable technology into your home or business.

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Freeman Dyson: Heretical Thoughts About Science and Society

Freeman Dyson with dry wit and self-effacing good humor explains that by heretical he means ideas that go against prevailing dogmas, and that in his self-appointed role as heretic, he is unimpressed by conventional wisdom. Hosted by Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on November 1, 2005.

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Count Everything - YouTube playlist for Climate Change

There are some good climate change videos available here.   Go and explore.

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