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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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Topic: "Socio-economic changes to consider" Speaker: Dr. Derek Paul Time: Feb 8, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Derek has been preparing a new edition of his book, “A leap to an Ecological Economy.” He will run through some of the items in the chapter on recommendations, with a view to helping the Cacor Board to choose one or more items …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Dr. Peter MacKinnon Topic: Planetary Limits: Coming Future Threats. Time: Feb 15, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86223352703?pwd=SmxNRkhmdk1YbVRueDFKYUEzVG1UUT09 Meeting ID: 862 2335 2703 Passcode: 298902 Summary: The world is faced with a growing range of planetary-scale threats to the environment, the biosphere and humankind. Climate change …
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Here are all the positive environmental stories from 2023 so far Our favourite positive environmental story from 2022: World's oldest two-headed tortoise celebrates 25th birthday. - Copyright REUTERS/Pierre Albouy By Euronews Green • Updated: 06/02/2023 - 17:42 Eco-anxiety, climate doom, environmental existential dread - as green journalists, we see these terms used a lot - and often feel them ourselves. While there's a lot to be worried about …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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By Andrew Welch Inspired by the work of Bill Rees (video), David Korten, and other thought leaders, I am moved to present a clear chain of thought, in six steps, leading inescapably (for me) to a surprising conclusion about Climate Change. If widely accepted, this would turn the Climate Change Movement on its head. I don't kid myself that this …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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Living with the Acceptance that our Capitalist Industrial Civilization is not Redeemable and will Collapse An Encounter with a discussion group talking about the deep Grief caused by Solastalgia I sometimes wondour if we are not all like alcoholics and drug addicts, addicted to behaviours that we know are self destructive. Anybody with open eyes can see that our current …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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"Miho Mazereeuw, an architect of built and natural environments, looks for new ways to get people ready for natural disasters. "The Kobe earthquake of 1995 devastated one of Japan’s major cities, leaving over 6,000 people dead while destroying or making unusable hundreds of thousands of structures. It toppled elevated freeway segments, wrecked mass transit systems, and damaged the city’s port …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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Dear Mr. Trudeau: I am a retired atmospheric/climate scientist concerned about our ability to fight the current climate crisis. It is exactly one year since I last wrote to your office, wherein I agreed with the climate plan emphasizing the need for rapid reductions in carbon emissions. The response (from Sylvie Poulin of Departmental Correspondence), dated 13 December 2022, indicated …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Writers
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To secure the future we need to reduce resource exploitation and pollution by reducing consumption. Belt tightening, however, lacks broad appeal. Pointing out what we can reclaim works better: more time for relationships, appreciation, service, sport, creativity, learning and the like. Such life-based activities can be represented by the single word "fun" because their effects are uplifting for those engaged. …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair (1878 – 1968), was an American writer, political activist, and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for Governor of California.
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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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Renowned turtle researcher and Laurentian professor Jacqueline Litzgus was expressing frustration at a bugbear query inevitably posed by the public, industry and media: Why should we care? “I just don’t want to answer,” she lamented. “If that’s the question when we’re talking about saving a species from extinction, we’ve already failed.” "There is no better snapshot of biodiversity woes than the …
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In this article, I will focus on the other side of the coin, which the report didn't cover — the status quo gasoline alternative that Americans and Canadians buy today. I'll highlight the lithium numbers from the report to give a sense of the gargantuan scale of gasoline extraction today. (Note: In this article, I use the term "gasoline" to refer …
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Driven by a rising demand for uninterrupted services, corporate ESG goals, and military resilience plans, Wood Mackenzie estimates the U.S. microgrid market has seen a 47% increase in solar and storage capacity in 2022 compared to 2017 levels. “Despite the global COVID-19 pandemic and associated macroeconomic challenges causing a two-year slowdown in the U.S., the microgrid market is developing at …
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Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled a new version of its Bing search engine that incorporates the technology behind ChatGPT, an AI system for conversational and creative responses that marks the first big chance in years to get ahead of search king Google. Bing now is an "AI-powered co-pilot for the web," the tech giant said, delivering search results infused with information …
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An OPINION distilled from Mark Jaccard’s book, The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success Deep decarbonization is a global collective action problem. Over the next decades, we need wealthier countries to rapidly decarbonize and developing countries to slow then reverse the growth of their emissions. For this, we must have an international enforcement mechanism, probably carbon tariffs, to ensure that politicians …
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Diving deep on how long Tesla batteries and vehicles truly last. 100,000, 400,000 or even 1 million miles!
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What’s the best energy source? At the end of 2021 I set out to answer that question in a video on how to calculate the cost of energy from different sources. And I used a car race metaphor to illustrate the different components that make up the cost: construction, financing, fuel and operations and maintenance. I got a tonne of …
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Just Have A Think: We hear a lot about climate tipping points in the news these days, and sure enough they are a very real threat. But according to analysis published during the recent World Economic Forum, there are also tipping points in the deployment of sustainable technology that are already disrupting existing markets. So, are they real, and can …
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