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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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Four CACOR members have volunteered to make occasional posts into our Breaking News listing. "How to" demonstrations have started.
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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: Dr. David Harries Topic: Whither Accountability? So What?. Time: Mar 8, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Accountability has become a crisis in its own right that is reinforcing the influence and impact of every other element of the global polycrisis. Accountability is broad in concept (see the Wiki entry). It is in crisis due to its universally diverse, uneven …
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You are invited to a scheduled CACOR Zoom meeting. Topic: Microgrids in the age of the Anthropocene. Time: Mar 15, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86725430920?pwd=R2c5SkUxK28vM3ZrcnM5NjlCSmFkUT09 Meeting ID: 867 2543 0920 Passcode: 455712 Summary: Human impact on the planet has reached unprecedented levels of environmental degradation. Scientists are proposing to call this geological epoch, the …
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Help I need somebody (Help) not just anybody (Help) you know I need someone (Help) When I was younger, so much younger than today (I never need) I never needed anybody's help in any way (Now) but now these days are gone (these days are gone) I'm not so self-assured (And now I find) now I find I've changed my …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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Nations have reached a historic agreement to protect the world's oceans following 10 years of negotiations. IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES By Esme Stallard Climate and Science Reporter, BBC News The High Seas Treaty aims to place 30% of the seas into protected areas by 2030, to safeguard and recuperate marine nature. The agreement was reached on Saturday evening, after 38 hours …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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Regarding the Sudanese civil war, Alex de Waal says, "But their political leadership didn't have a clue, and then within a year of the independence of South Sudan, the South Sudanese shut off their oil production completely which was a contributor to the civil war that broke out a year later. "...and we coined this phrase 'traumatic decarbonization.' "...so the …
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Categories: Analysis, Articles, CACOR Groups
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To: Mayor Mark Sutcliffe, City of Ottawa Councillors, Committee Chairs February 20, 2023 Subject: The 2023 City of Ottawa Budget and the Climate Emergency Dear Mayor Sutcliffe, Committee Chairs, and Councillors, Citizen Climate Counsel (C3), a group of local citizens concerned about climate action within the City of Ottawa, has reviewed the draft 2023 budget for its climate funding. We …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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In February 2023, CACOR director Ruben Nelson released a 33-page essay on his experiences in life. Where are we in History: Reflections on the New Core Work of the 21st Century is a limited inquiry into a particular question. He said, "I am aware that this focus means that a host of interesting, important, but ultimately ancillary, issues will only …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Writers
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Graveyard for old ships in Africa Access Google Maps, go to satellite view and navigate to 20.912551174961834, -17.04042091035618 And zoom in then look around.
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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Nuclear power is like fighting world hunger with caviar, it’s like using the most expensive option when there are far more plentiful and nutritious options available. Prof Benjamin Sovacool, University of Sussex, lead author for IPCC
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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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Tire tread particles turn streams toxic For coho salmon in the US Pacific Northwest, returning to spawn in urban and suburban streams can be deadly. Regular acute mortality events are tied, in particular, to stormwater runoff, but the identity of the causative toxicant(s) has not been known. Starting from leachate from new and aged tire tread wear particles, Tian et …
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Recent climate models project that a doubling of atmospheric CO2 above pre-industrial levels could cause temperatures to soar far above previous estimates. A warming earth, researchers now say, will lead to a loss of clouds, allowing more solar energy to strike the planet. It is the most worrying development in the science of climate change for a long time. An …
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On March 16, 2023, the consultation period for Canada’s ZEV sales regulation closes. It’s a policy lever that is a necessity if Canada wants to successfully transition to non-emitting vehicles. (Electric Mobility Canada’s Daniel Breton and Clean Energy Canada’s Mark Zacharias) From food to medicine, from baby car seats to airplanes, rules and regulations are adopted to ensure that we …
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Just Have a Think It seems obvious and it is very attractive for some plants in some locations.
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March 7 (Reuters) - Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk on Tuesday said that the next generation small car the company is working on would operate mostly in autonomous mode, similar to a promise he made in 2020. On Tuesday he said there was a clear path to delivering a car that cost half as much to build as Tesla's Model …
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There is no need for gas turbines. The past practice of the Minister of Energy directing the IESO (and its predecessor planning organization the Ontario Power Authority) to deploy a specific supply mix without detailed engineering and economic analysis is a recipe for rapid retail electricity rate increases, as we have seen in the past
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Just Have a Think Air is NOT free! At least compressed air isn't anyway. Compressed air accounts for no less than 10% of the overall energy consumption and emissions from that sector. So anything that can be done to improve efficiency and therefore lower those emissions has got to be a positive step forward. Now a revolutionary design ( literally …
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Just Have a Think By 2050, fresh water may be inaccessible to as many as a billion people. Current desalination methods will be using vast amounts of energy to keep up by then, producing no less than 5% of total global greenhouse gas emissions, not to mention untold harm to marine ecosystems from outflow of concentrated brine solution into the …
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Thorium Nuclear Battery story starts around 23:00 (including intro)
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