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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 Pending Schedule of CACOR's Zoom Series from now until the spring of 2023
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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 . It is quite powerful and covers all the videos presently in our database.
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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: Raymond Leury Topic: Current EV Market and Impact of Battery Technology Developments Time: Dec 7, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Raymond will provide an update to the current EV situation in Canada and the rest of the world. There have been significant changes on a number of fronts over the last 6 months. Market share continues …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: John Schmidt Topic: Complex Global Problem Management using Foresight and Synthesis. Time: Dec 14, 2022 16:00 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84029123875?pwd=cmhlK2RMN28rZWRKSldoQnlCMUFPdz09 Meeting ID: 840 2912 3875 Passcode: 231247 Summary: Our civilisation faces several mutually reinforcing existential threats arising from myriad compounding factors, many of our own making. It is …
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Save the world by sharing both your bank account and your bed For years I have wondered about this question: Why is it that so many couples I know have sex together but not a joint bank account? I find this very, very strange. It seems to me that if you can have enough trust to make love to somebody …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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We need to remember that mankind is part of the animal kingdom. The human species is as dependent as the rest of the animal kingdom on the plant kingdom. As human numbers have increased, an increasing fraction of the plant kingdom’s total productivity has been diverted from feeding other animals to feeding man or the animals man uses. One ecologist …
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Categories: Articles, Ecology, Quotes
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Some quick results from the Dec 5-6 Conference in San Jose Costa Rica. Good local representation from local NGOs and students Major focus on harm from international exploitation of people. resources, environment with many blaming most on e/g colonialism, capitalism, the economic system etc. Less on solutions than would have been optimal. Some interesting success stories were shared in many …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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This is a copy of Phil Reilly's request to the Ottawa Public Library in early December 2022. Phil also made the library aware of CACOR Zoom series on YouTube and our Plan to Survive. Hello, I recommend two books be added to OPL's library collection ... 'Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change', by William R. Catton Jr., and 'Reproductive Rights …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Writers
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"Many of the companies promising “net-zero” emissions to protect the climate are relying on vast swaths of forests and what are known as carbon offsets to meet that goal. On paper, carbon offsets appear to balance out a company’s carbon emissions: The company pays to protect trees, which absorb carbon dioxide from the air. The company can then claim the absorbed …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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New clean energy communities are coming to California. Leading homebuilder KB Homes announced Wednesday it has established what it calls the first all-electric, solar-and-battery-powered microgrid community in the golden state. KB partnered with the US Department of Energy (DOE), SunPower, Schneider Electric, and Kia, among others, to test the new energy-efficient homes at several of its new communities. The new all-electric, solar-and-battery-powered micro-communities are located …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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The International Energy Agency (IEA) released its flagship annual World Energy Outlook (WEO) this morning. It is an important contribution to the global debate, debunking many of the classic incumbent myths, and providing detailed solutions to challenges we face. With the IEA’s contribution last year and this year, the analytical debate between legacy thinking and new energy thinking has shifted in favor …
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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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Rooftop wind power has been a goal for micro power generators around the world for many years now. There’s no shortage of design ideas, but now there’s a new kid on the block that has no visible moving parts, makes no noise, and generates 50% more power than standard solar PV panels. So how do they do that? Just Have …
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Even as remote employees start returning to in-person work, Canada’s downtowns remain filled with vacant office buildings. In Calgary, for example, the downtown vacancy rate recently reached 27.5 per cent. Meanwhile, the demand for housing throughout the country is higher than ever. Calgary’s Strategic Group, a company that manages and develops office, retail and apartment properties across the country, has …
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Like most nerds who read science fiction, I’ve spent a lot of time wondering how society will greet true artificial intelligence, if and when it arrives. Will we panic? Start sucking up to our new robot overlords? Ignore it and go about our daily lives? So it’s been fascinating to watch the Twittersphere try to make sense of ChatGPT, a …
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ICCF-24 Presentation - Catalyzed Fusion (depends on quantum effects) from work done in New Zeeland. This is a YouTube presentation demonstrating a lab scale LENR device. Still a long way until a commercial device but could be used for aircraft applications of clean energy.
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The book is available on Amazon and is an inexpensive seasonal gift that will keep on giving for years. Do Yourself a Favour: Live Lightly, Live Better This book provides a catalogue of things a person can do in his/her personal and family lives to help limit climate change. Included are over two hundred tips, each evaluated by the authors. …
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A new report looking at species in Canada shows a troubling trend, thousands of species are at risk of going extinct. As Mark Neufeld reports, there is hope the report will influence decision-making at the upcoming UN biodiversity conference.
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Confronting climate change makes for better cities and a better quality of life, says Heidi Sørensen, director of the climate agency for the city of Oslo, Norway. From construction sites without noise pollution to fully electric transportation, she details the exciting green transition happening in her city. The Norwegian capital's ambitious goal of reducing 95 percent of its carbon emissions …
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Was COP26 a big waste of time? Population ecologist and PM Expert Advisor Prof William Rees weighs in on the major UN climate conference and points out humanity’s collective failure to acknowledge and address the root cause of environmental problems: we are consuming more than the Earth can provide.
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Mitsubishi has released a cascaded air source heat pump that can produce between 7.8 kW and 640 kW of heat. It is reportedly able to generate hot water at a temperature of up to 70 C without boost heaters.
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