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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: John Schmidt Topic: Complex Global Problem Management using Foresight and Synthesis. Time: Dec 14, 2022 16:00 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Our civilisation faces several mutually reinforcing existential threats arising from myriad compounding factors, many of our own making. It is a volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous, and dangerous world. Most of those who do try to address these circumstances do …
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You are invited to a scheduled CACOR Zoom meeting. Speaker: Phil Helwig Topic: Comparison of Renewables: Hydro, solar, and wind. Time: Jan 4, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86492690113?pwd=MWlUd2VES0FNZ2hsNllzSERzNEtXQT09 Meeting ID: 864 9269 0113 Passcode: 487792 Summary: The objective of this presentation is to explain the attributes of hydro, wind and solar renewables, and to challenge …
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Environment ministers try to get Montreal biodiversity talks on track in final days Canadian Pressabout 16 hours ago MONTREAL — A successful biodiversity framework to halt the devastation of global ecosystems and wildlife will require compromise from the world's wealthy and developing nations both, Canada's environment minister said Thursday. Steven Guilbeault is helping guide international nature talks toward a conclusion, …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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We face a difficult truth. While Paris remains an unprecedented success, it is also a fragile foundation for action. The movement to address climate change — and to promote climate justice — must now shift to a new stage, with urgency and determination. All of us — governments, both powerful and small, prosperous and impoverished; cities, communities, business leaders, and …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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Researchers from RMIT and the University of Melbourne have discovered high-frequency vibrations can release 14 times more hydrogen compared with standard electrolysis techniques. The discovery also has ramifications for the expensive, rare materials currently used in electrolysers. “With sound waves making it much easier to extract hydrogen from water, it eliminates the need to use corrosive electrolytes and expensive electrodes …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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By George Monbiot So what do we do now? After 27 summits and no effective action, it seems that the real purpose was to keep us talking. If governments were serious about preventing climate breakdown, there would have been no Cops 2-27. The major issues would have been resolved at Cop1, as the ozone depletion crisis was at a single summit …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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By Ana Sophia Mifsud, Rachel Golden Across the United States, over 15 states and roughly 100 cities have begun to shift policies to encourage or require electrification of homes, workplaces, schools, and government buildings. In fact, as of November 1, 2022, four states have explicitly called for electrification by setting time-bound heat pump deployment targets that together total well over 12 million new heat …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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By Tom Ellis Most dystopian fiction is set in the future, near or distant. But consider our present reality: a visibly accelerating rise in average global temperatures from year to year, leading to rapidly melting ice caps and glaciers, rising sea levels, the collapse of ecosystems, and the relentless pounding of unprecedented storms, droughts, floods, and wildfires worldwide; coupled with …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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John Hollins had the following letter published in the Ottawa Citizen in early December 2022. During the construction and commissioning of Ottawa's first light-rail project, I was provided excellent information by the media, mainly the Ottawa Citizen. I did not attend any briefings, so I did not learn anything from body language. Nevertheless, I had a sense from an early …
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Categories: Articles, 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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This article has many nuances and is worth reading. California, by far the country’s leader in rooftop solar, will soon become a far less lucrative market for rooftop-solar companies and the homeowners and businesses they serve. On Thursday, the California Public Utilities Commission unanimously approved a plan that will radically reduce the amount of money that customers can save and earn by installing new solar …
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By Sandrine Dixson-Declève, co-president of The Club of Rome 22 November 2022 – We’re the clowns, smiling manically as weak pledges are presented as progress, amid mayhem. COP27 has ended. After more than two weeks of negotiations at the climate summit, there is a deal of sorts that keeps the climate negotiations ticking over, but it is weak and is covered with the …
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MMR is like a carbon-free natural gas powerplant. It can match changing demand and make up for intermittent renewable power supply. As the sun sets or the wind slows down, the MMR Energy System picks up the slack ensuring demand is always met. No interruptions. No excuses. No carbon. Ultra Farms include MMR units, wind and solar assets to minimize …
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Toyota Motor North America and Oncor Electric Delivery, a Texas-based electric transmission and distribution company, will collaborate on a pilot project around vehicle-to-grid (V2G), a technology that allows vehicles to flow energy from their battery back onto the electric grid. The effort will be led by Toyota’s Electric Vehicle Charging Solutions (EVCS) team, marking an important first collaboration with a public utility …
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In my reporting about the United States government announcement of a nuclear fusion research result at the National Ignition Facility, I was wrong about something. I first heard about the developing story on Sunday night when I began receiving text messages about it from friends. Tom Wilson of the London Financial Times had broken the story. I went online and realized that …
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Overview Before an emergency happens, it’s important to make sure you have a plan in place for your household. Follow the steps below to: develop your plan build an emergency kit make sure you stay informed should an emergency occur Record the important details of your emergency plan using the format that works best for you, whether on paper or …
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As sales of electric vehicles continue to grow, innovative technologies being developed by automakers and industry suppliers promise to increase driving range, a common concern among prospective EV buyers, which has limited the growth in EV sales. These three companies are developing new ways to allow electric vehicles to go further on a single charge without changing battery technology. If “range anxiety” prevents you …
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Ignoring the IESO’s warnings, in October, the Ford government rolled out a plan to invest in the additional generation of up to 1,500 megawatts of electricity from natural gas. This would add to the current 10,000 megawatts currently produced from natural gas. The IESO predicted through its 2021 Annual Planning Outlook that overall energy demand will increase at an average …
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Improved knowledge of glacial-to-interglacial global temperature change implies that fast- feedback equilibrium climate sensitivity is at least ~4°C for doubled CO2 (2×CO2), with likely range 3.5-5.5°C. Greenhouse gas (GHG) climate forcing is 4.1 W/m2 larger in 2021 than in 1750, equivalent to 2×CO2 forcing. Global warming in the pipeline is greater than prior estimates. Eventual global warming due to today’s …
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The human enterprise is in overshoot, depleting essential ecosystems faster than they can regenerate and polluting the ecosphere beyond nature’s assimilative capacity. Overshoot is a meta-problem that is the cause of most symptoms of eco-crisis, including climate change, landscape degradation and biodiversity loss. The proximate driver of overshoot is excessive energy and material ‘throughput’ o serve the global economy. Both …
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