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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.
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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: Heidi Radford Legg Topic: Will knowing who runs and funds our media rebuild trust. Time: Mar 29, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Heidi Legg is focused on increased transparency into who funds our newsrooms. With the massive disruption in digital news and the proliferation of newsrooms with global reach, understanding who funds our news is imperative …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Dr. Ted Manning Topic: Changing the Discussion from Growth to Wellbeing. Time: Apr. 5, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83122519069?pwd=ODlYS2JuWCtCNWRNZndkM010MFJJZz09 Meeting ID: 831 2251 9069 Passcode: 481809 Summary: (This presentation is based on a project we have been doing with the main Club of Rome) Why Growth? We have often behaved …
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Laughter really IS the best medicine for you AND planet Earth When we laugh we trust, when we trust we can cooperate to accomplish the impossible If it is happiness you seek, First tolerate suffering. Without experiencing tears, You will not appreciate laughter. Chengnawa Lodrö Gyaltsen (spyan snga ba blo gros rgyal mtshan, 1402-1472) https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2023/03/16/babies-laughter-benefits-children-meaning-lbb-orig.cnn Babies recognize normal vs abnormal/silly …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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CLIMATE CHANGE 14 Biggest Environmental Problems of 2023 BY DEENA ROBINSONAFRICA AMERICAS ASIA EUROPE GLOBAL COMMONS OCEANIAJAN 9TH 202316 MINS EARTH.ORG IS POWERED BY OVER 150 CONTRIBUTING WRITERS While the climate crisis has many factors that play a role in the exacerbation of the environment, there are some that warrant more attention than others. Here are some of the biggest environmental problems of our lifetime, from …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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CACOR member Fred Németh to several dozen questions posed by the Chairperson of the day, Buzz Nixon, concerning humanity's problems and how they might be solved. Those questions remain relevant today (2023). Link to | Some Questions Some Answers.
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers
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"More fossil fuel extraction means more loss and damage experienced by our island homes. A COP that does not address the root cause of the climate crisis, is a COP that is complicit in the devastation of my people.” Brianna Fruean, Samoan climate activist, speaking at COP27.
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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"A treasure trove of fossils uncovered in China challenges the idea that marine animals took millions of years to recover from the world’s worst die-off. Dyani Lewis "An exceptionally well-preserved trove of fossils uncovered in southern China represents a complex marine ecosystem from the dawn of modern life, according to a study published in Science today1. The organisms of the Guiyang …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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Earlier in March, the American Lung Association penned an open memo in support of the All-Electric Building Act (S.562-A/A.920-A). In it, the Association urges the New York state senate and assembly to include the bill in their new One House budget proposals. The proposal, which seeks to effectively ban gas-powered appliances in residential units, could have a tremendously positive impact …
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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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Clean Energy Coucil - / cleanenergycouncilau As you know, the standard silicon photovoltaic solar cell is the black-and-copper solar panel that you can find on suburban rooftops and solar farms that were born and raised in America in 1950. Currently, 90 percent of the world’s solar panels are made from crystalline silicon, and the industry continues to grow at a rate …
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If you look at the rooftops of buildings in Israel, you’ll notice something. All of them have solar water heaters. In Greece and Cyprus you'll see the same thing. But in the United States, less than 1% of homes use the sun to heat their water, even in sunny states like California, Texas, and Arizona. Why? That's a question I've …
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Just Have a Think. The United Nations climate body, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has just given us the bluntest verdict yet on the scale of the climate emergency. So are we actually doomed as some commentators suggest, or is there any way at all that we can drag ourselves out of our self inflicted train wreck? Perhaps the …
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"To tackle climate change we all need to do our part. That’s why the Government of Canada is investing in programs and incentives to help you take climate action. Discover hundreds of online resources to get you get started." Link to | A compendium of Government of Canada publications on environment and climate change.
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America's electrical grid is headed for a total meltdown. "...mass blackouts are starting to become a more regular feature of modern American life. Power outages have increased 64% from the early 2000s, and weather-related outages——many driven by the worsening climate crisis——have increased 78%. it's not just nature making our grid shakier: A system that was once largely controlled by localized public entities …
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Scientists have discovered that DDT, which had been dumped off the California coast in the 1940s and 1950s, never broke down. The chemical remains in its most potent form in startlingly high concentrations, spread across a wide swath of seafloor larger than the city of San Francisco. ... The findings so far have been one stunning development after another. A …
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Already 2.4 times as expensive as very, very expensive Hinkley nuclear station. First of a kind, so very likely to double or more in price. Very unlikely to be built before 2040 due to long-tailed risks. "It was a Bloomberg piece, and Bloomberg normally gets the facts right, although Bloomberg New Energy Finance gets the framing right far more often, and a bit of evaluation …
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In the middle of the last decade, Dr. Norma Orestes, science historian, explained how we got to the point where we know what's really happening, yet many of us don't believe it. Link to | Climate change scientific history and Merchants of doubt Eunice Foote, John Tyndall and the greenhouse effect – The Irish Times
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