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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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To CACOR Members:
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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: Alison Woodley Topic: We can't wait! Delivering on Canada's land and ocean protection commitments Time: Jan 25, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Canada has committed to protect at least 30% of our land and ocean by 2030 -- more than doubling current protection levels over the next 7 years. A 30% by 2030 global target was recently …
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You are invited you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Dr. Sheldon Williamson Topic: Electrification 2.0: Current Status and Future Trends. Time: Feb 1, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84503883359?pwd=NldieHpiWkM2b3RZWlpJa3BwWi9rdz09 Meeting ID: 845 0388 3359 Passcode: 626078 Summary: This presentation will highlight the current status and future opportunities in transportation electrification and other modes of …
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The Law of the Jungle: In Canada is Trust crumbling ? Our misguided understanding of the Law of the Jungle: brute force and self-interest are how you survive is destroying us Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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Society’s Biggest Risks, Ranked by the World's Leading Experts Internally displaced flood-affected people take refuge in a camp at Kotri in Jamshoro district of Sindh province in Pakistan on Sept. 28, 2022. Photo by RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP—Getty Images BY ARYN BAKER JANUARY 19, 2023 3:52 PM EST Every year the World Economic Forum (WEF) surveys more than 1,200 global risk experts, policy …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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This delay in community microgrid development means more vulnerability to heat waves, wildfires, power shutoffs and pollution, especially in frontline communities. By Stephanie Doyle and Shina Robinson After a summer of unprecedented heat waves and multiple years of devastating wildfires, 2022 has come to a close, only to be followed by extreme flooding in California in the first few weeks …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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N. Nemeth explained that unresolved conflicts are the building blocks of the Global Problematique, and that conflict-creation has to be stopped if our fundamental ecological problems are to be resolved. In his view, the key to unlocking the gates to achieve success without terror, brutality, and destructive power display is to demonstrate, convincingly, the alternative. That is to say, we …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers
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"Li-Cycle, a Canadian company founded in 2016 by two former engineering consultants — Ajay Kochhar and Tim Johnston — is building several plants. At collection centers in Alabama, Arizona, New York and Ontario, the company breaks down batteries and manufacturing scrap. In its plant in Rochester, N.Y., a conveyor belt ferries materials up one story before dropping them into a …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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There is no doubt that solar energy is on the rise. Across the globe, people are beginning to see the benefits of using this renewable source of energy. From small-scale projects to large-scale ones, people are tapping into the power of the sun to meet their energy needs. In this article, we will take a look at ten impressive projects …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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All government — indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act — is founded on compromise and barter. Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton), historian (1834-1902) Lord Acton is remembered for his pungent aphorisms – “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” – but of far deeper significance was his lifelong study of the …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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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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The world has enough rare earth minerals and other critical raw materials to switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy to produce electricity and limit global warming, according to a new study that counters concerns about the supply of such minerals. With a push to get more electricity from solar panels, wind turbines, hydroelectric and nuclear power plants, some people have …
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Further to information Meg Sears and I gave in our talk last year, we see where Canada is on pesticide regulation: Canada's pesticide regulator repeatedly ignored red flags raised by its own scientists about the health risks posed by the pesticide chlorpyrifos, stalling a review of the pesticide for close to 20 years, documents obtained by the environmental group Ecojustice …
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California is embarking on an audacious new climate plan that aims to eliminate the state’s greenhouse gas footprint by 2045, and in the process, slash emissions far beyond its borders. The blueprint calls for massive transformations in industry, energy and transportation, as well as changes in institutions and human behaviors. These transformations won’t be easy. Two years of developing the plan have …
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Tesla Reveals NEW Semi Gigafactory!
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From the David Suzuki Foundation Home - David Suzuki Foundation Reliable, affordable, 100 per cent emissions-free electricity in Canada by 2035 is entirely possible. Not only that, it would create numerous jobs and help Canada meet its international climate obligations. “Shifting Power: Zero-Emissions Electricity Across Canada by 2035” is the first Canadian modelling study to explore pathways to zero-emissions …
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Throughout the years, numerous studies have highlighted the effects of human-induced climate change on insect species, including pollinators. A new study led by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston takes this research a step further by looking at the impact of pollination loss on human health. With fewer insects that deliver pollen, the study links inadequate pollination …
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‘Positive tipping points’ offered hope Most people are familiar with climate tipping points: one component of a fragile ecosystem collapsing, sparking a chain of irreversible disasters. But academics from the University of Exeter in England have tipped the notion of tipping points on its head, claiming that breakthroughs in low-carbon technologies could trigger an unstoppable wave of decarbonisation, or what …
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How A Brick & Rock Battery Is Changing Energy Storage - Explained. The first 100 people to use code UNDECIDED at the link below will get 20% off of Incogni: https://incogni.com/undecided. Grid-scale lithium ion batteries are our current go-to chemical energy storage solution, but they present their own challenges in safety, sustainability, cost, and longevity. However, the competition is … …
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The U.S. is becoming increasingly ungovernable, and some experts believe it could descend into civil war. What should Canada do then? THOMAS HOMER-DIXON SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL PUBLISHED DECEMBER 31, 2021UPDATED JANUARY 2, 2022 Thomas Homer-Dixon is executive director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University. His latest book is Commanding Hope: The Power We Have to …
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and other prominent climate campaigners including Vanessa Nakate and Helena Neubauer held a climate march on Friday, the final day of panels at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Thunberg met with the chief of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, on the sidelines of the convention on Thursday and slammed corporate elites for their inaction. …
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