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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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Four CACOR members have volunteered to make occasional posts into our Breaking News listing.
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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. Ted Manning Topic: Changing the Discussion from Growth to Wellbeing. Time: Apr. 5, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: (This presentation is based on a project we have been doing with the main Club of Rome) Why Growth? We have often behaved as humans that our prime directive is growth. And where has this gotten us? The problematique clearly defines the concept of …
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Special time: 18:00 EDT You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Julian Cribb Topic: Earth Detox: How and why we must clean up our planet Time: Apr 12, 2023 18:00 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84527721556?pwd=WHVlN1QxZG5mTjJ1RkVIdlI5b0FVZz09 Meeting ID: 845 2772 1556 Passcode: 872070 Summary : Earth, and all life on it, are saturated with anthropogenic chemicals and wastes, in an …
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'The 20-year-old climate activist has put together a reading list for determined citizens willing to mobilize for a just and sustainable future. "When I first heard about the climate book project being edited by Greta Thunberg, the Swedish “Fridays for the Future” climate striker, I was skeptical. Having curated Yale Climate Connections’ monthly bookshelf collection since early 2015, I was acquainted with …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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Escaping The Progress Trap A book review on escaping the dead end we have made for ourselves I received a copy of the book Escaping The Progress Trap by Daniel B. O'Leary when I was a first time Green Party candidate in 2007. He wrote in the cover: “Good Luck Gord!”. Well, I did quite well during that election …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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We are clearly the last generation that can change the course of climate change, but we are also the first generation with its consequences. Kristalina Georgieva, CEO of the World Bank. December 2, 2018 (Used by Dr. Mahmoud Kabalan in his Zoom talk 2023 March 15: https://canadiancor.com/dr-mahmoud-kabalan-microgrids-in-the-age-of-the-anthropocene-mar-15-2023-1330-et-cacor-zoom/
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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Investing in a net-zero economy: Scaling blended finance February 8, 2023 | Podcast "The scale of financing required for the transition to net zero is immense and the current financial gap substantial, making it vital to rapidly increase blended finance. "McKinsey’s Bharath Sattanathan speaks to Gillian Tan, chief sustainability officer at the Monetary Authority of Singapore, about solutions to the …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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CACOR member N. (Fred) Németh discussed the problems with the term sustainable development and the need for a change in our value systems to resolve the myriad ecological crises that were getting recognized in the 1990s. Link to | Anatomy of Global WarNing.
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers
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Through a year of war in Ukraine, the U.S. and most European nations have worked to help counter Russia, in supporting Ukraine both with armaments and in world energy markets. Russia was Europe’s main energy supplier when it invaded Ukraine, and President Vladimir Putin threatened to leave Europeans to freeze “like a wolf’s tail” – a reference to a famous …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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If I can do no more, let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. Louisa May Alcott, writer and reformist ( 1832-1888)
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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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In this Frankly, Nate shares his early Wall Street experience of ‘squawkboxes’ summarizing the daily financial Global Macro events and compares it to present day, where we find ourselves faced with the real Global Macro news - the systemic nexus of economic, environmental, and geopolitical risks and realities. From sea surface temperatures at all-time recorded highs, to the threat of …
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But how are we to get political buy-in for this revolutionary shift in norms? I don’t think it is necessarily that hard to get the vast majority of the population behind such positive change; it requires honesty and candour. The majority of people will be better off in virtually all aspects of their lives. Not only the elimination of fuel …
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We’re all preppers now. That’s how one of my readers recently put it. He’s right. Everyone used to make fun of preppers. We considered them a fringe movement. We stereotyped them as loonies who hid canned soup under their beds and whispered about government takeovers. Now we’re turning to them for advice on how to get ready for floods, fires, …
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Philip Rosedale says generative AI can perform superhuman tasks but lacks the human ability to reason. Generative artificial intelligence has the potential to transform business, politics, and culture. But we're currently in a precarious moment, according to Philip Rosedale, founder of Linden Labs and advisor to Midjourney. Rosedale compared the current state of generative AI to the creation of the internet in the 1990s, when there …
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The Need to Coordinate Investments with Land Use, Housing Policy, and Road Use Reforms Beyond money and technology, a critical barrier to better transportation outcomes is simply how our policies prioritize the use of land and street space. Reforming costly car-centric policies could unlock private investment that increases government revenue and yields extensive economic, social, and environmental benefits. A few examples illustrate the importance …
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Lower greenhouse gas emissions in the US would also benefit the world as China, followed by the United States, is responsible for emitting the highest amount of greenhouse gases globally. These two countries along with India account for 42.6% of total emissions, while more than half of the world’s countries, comprising the bottom 100, contribute a mere 2.9% to the …
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UN warns of ‘draining humanity’s lifeblood’ amid worsening water scarcity Secretary general urges countries to tackle ‘vampiric overconsumption’, water guzzling industries and climate crisis Nina Lakhani in New York @ninalakhani Wed 22 Mar 2023 20.38 GMT The United Nations opened its first water conference in almost half a century in New York on Wednesday, with a plea for countries to work together to …
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18,695 watching now Started streaming 3 hours ago 18,695 watching now • Started streaming 3 hours ago Live coverage of the April 4th-5th severe weather and tornado event! Keep up with the date and time in the bottom right corner of the stream.
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In this video, I will show you the 10 major types of commands you can give ChatGPT so you can get the most out of the most powerful tool on the internet.
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In an era of technology and innovation, few individuals have left as indelible a mark on the fabric of modern science as our esteemed guest, Dr. Steven Wolfram. Dr. Wolfram is a renowned polymath who has made significant contributions to the fields of physics, computer science, and mathematics. A prodigious young man too, Wolfram earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics …
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