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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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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: Phil Helwig Topic: Comparison of Renewables: Hydro, solar, and wind. Time: Jan 4, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: The objective of this presentation is to explain the attributes of hydro, wind and solar renewables, and to challenge the notion that hydro is not “sustainable.” This presentation has evolved from a lecture presented at the Waterloo Institute of Sustainable …
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You are invited to a scheduled Canadian Association for the Club of Rome Zoom meeting. Speaker: Dr. Brian Czech Topic: Degrowth Toward a Steady-State Economy. Time: Jan 11, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83133326211?pwd=YmN4QnRjMjBVNDdkU0lwcHBCc0NoUT09 Meeting ID: 831 3332 6211 Passcode: 569383 SUMMARY: Dr. Brian Czech will define and describe degrowth and the steady state economy as the sustainable …
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17 Most Sustainable Cities In The World (2022) By Eric September 23, 2021 If you're looking to travel to a city that's sustainable, there are many ones making an effort to recycle more, use renewable energy, and meet UN sustainable development goals. These cities all offer some great green spaces for you to relax in as well. You can continue to live …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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Fate is the Hunter Fate & Luck in our Lives Recently I was at our cottage in Quebec snowshoeing with a friend on the lake. The lake had frozen over weeks before and my friend has cut through the ice to get water for his cottage and found that there were two layers of ice with slush in-between them. My …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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by Ingrid Gercama, Nathalie Bertrams, Tristen Taylor Claire O’Sullivan runs her small family firm, Wild Atlantic Seaweed Ireland, out of her house a short walk from Bantry Bay on the country’s southwestern coast. Her wild kelp is hand-harvested, a sustainable and traditional method of collecting seaweed. The company focuses on niche high-end products: Seaweed Infused Beard Oil, €15.00 for 50 milliliters ($14.66 for …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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One of the ways major urban centres are combatting climate change is by reducing the reliance on personal vehicles. This foundational shift to energy-efficient public transit works most effectively if the alternative is a green option. The federal government is trying to help Ontario move away from dirty diesel buses, toward electric fleets. Currently, 92 percent of emissions in the …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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"Catastrophic floods, crop-wilting droughts, and record heatwaves this year have shown that climate change warnings are increasingly becoming reality, and this is 'just the beginning' experts say, as international efforts to cut planet-heating emissions founder. "The year did see some important progress, with major new legislation, particularly in the United States and Europe, as well as a deal at UN …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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The collective human propensity to delude plays out repeatedly in a world that otherwise appears to accept the validity of independent scientific inquiry. People are generally open to the findings of science, but less so when those findings conflict with their financial interests or lifestyle. Those whose financial self-interest depends on fostering delusions that disagree with the findings of science …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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CACOR member David Dougherty did a quick review of a new publication from Project Drawdown. Members might recall that we posted a link the original Project Drawdown (on the project group's website) several years ago. This new publication examines what may be available for humanity to use in controlling climate change. It includes technologies and ways of accomplishing tasks. …
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Categories: Articles, Book Reviews, 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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Canada has big climate goals and we need ambitious solutions to meet them. The federal government is banking on a new generation of nuclear technology to help us clean up power grids and reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. But will it work? As part of a new Canada’s National Observer series breaking down climate basics, we delved into some common questions about …
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Musk’s Twitter takeover did not go down well on Wall Street, which feared the chaos and political polarisation it unleashed would tarnish the automaker’s brand and distract him at a critical time. A Tesla stock price slide that began in the autumn turned into an avalanche; shares are now 73 per cent below their peak of a little more than …
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With over 30% of the country’s power stations destroyed from attacks, Ukraine faces an extreme challenge to provide reliable and consistent electric power to citizens. In this webinar, we’ll talk about our experience powering hospitals, field clinics and much more in Ukraine through the use of solar generators and panels.
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In 1972, the publication of The Limits to Growth would change the world. Often considered the starting point for global ecological awareness, this report commissioned by the Club of Rome modelled for the first time, thanks to computers, the incompatibility between the exponential dynamics of economic and demographic growth of industrial societies and the finiteness of the earth's resources. Dennis …
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Moldova, a staging ground for humanitarian aid for Ukraine, is the latest victim of the Russian attacks on the grid that began in earnest Oct. 10 with a massive missile and drone attack that heavily damaged transmission lines and caused 1.4 million Ukrainians to lose power. Microgrid advocates point to such attacks as an example of the danger of relying …
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Here is Microgrid Knowledge’s list of 23 microgrid projects to watch in 2023 — in no particular rank. We narrowed the list to 50 finalists and then painfully cut it to 23. For the first time, we divided the list thematically to give you a sense of the trends we’re seeing. Last year’s list of 22 projects was one of …
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Dr Simon Clark explains the story of how we discovered the planet was warming, and why. Learn the building blocks of climate science with Brilliant: https://www.brilliant.org/simonclark The climate crisis is caused by a build up of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere, which traps energy and raises the planet's average temperature. This was discovered over the course of 200 years …
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Every Friday, we publish charts featuring fascinating facts about the clean energy transition. Here are the 10 most popular from 2022. (from Canary Media)
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Locally-grown food for a hotter world With no soil and no growing seasons, Zayed's technology can reliably produce 640 edible plants in less time than it takes to grow a similar crop outdoors, using the same amount of water it takes for a 10-minute shower — a technology Zayed said can eliminate the wild price fluctuations and e. coli outbreaks that come with the …
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Just Have a Think Flywheels are an ancient technology going right back to the potters wheels of 3,000BC. But this simple technology is now being developed to provide kinetic inertia that can help stabilise the voltage frequency of utility grids around the world. So could this be another step on the way to full grid decarbonisation in the coming years?
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