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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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A long standing CACOR member, Dr. Ed Napke died last week at age 99. He was quite an incredible man with a outstanding national and international reputation in Healthcare R&D.
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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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Do you want to contact your Federal MP or Senator?
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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. Melissa Lem Topic: PaRx: a prescription for patient and planetary health. Time: Feb 21, 2023 14:00 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Note that this is on a TUESDAY. Summary: Nature prescriptions are being written by healthcare professionals across the planet, from Scotland to Japan to the United States. And rightly so: from improved blood pressure and immune function …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Ralph Torrie Title: Doing Well by Doing Good -- Encouraging indications from corporate revenue and investment trends. Time: Mar 1, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86584471779?pwd=VjdmcDUvN1pGSlBHNzFudEpWaXp4QT09 Meeting ID: 865 8447 1779 Passcode: 878478 Summary: Revenues and investments for 2,500 large companies have been measured against Corporate Knights' …
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"The following was produced by the independent and 100% publically funded Job One for Humanity climate change think tank. "1. If you have just experienced a climate change-related extreme weather event involving any heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes ad cyclones, flooding, rain bombs, wind storms (Derechos), dust storms, wildfire smoke events, unseasonable cold spells, and abnormal unseasonal weather and, you need immediate recovery …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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By Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth System Science, UCL The science of climate change is more than 150 years old and it is probably the most tested area of modern science. However the energy industry, political lobbyists and others have spent the last 30 years sowing doubt about the science where none really exists. The latest estimate is that the world’s five largest …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. Gertrude Stein, novelist, poet, and playwright (1874-1946)
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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"An international security conference explored how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for drug discovery could be misused for de novo design of biochemical weapons. A thought experiment evolved into a computational proof. "Fabio Urbina, Filippa Lentzos, Cédric Invernizzi and Sean Ekins "The Swiss Federal Institute for NBC (nuclear, biological and chemical) Protection —Spiez Laboratory— convenes the ‘convergence’ conference series1 set up …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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Forget diplomatic language—it’s a moment for some home truths. By Bill McKibben of the New Yorker February 6, 2023 "On Monday morning, at the United Nations, the Secretary-General delivered his annual report on priorities—a kind of State of the Planet address... "He begins by saying, in a sentence typed in bold in the official transcript, 'We must end the merciless, relentless, senseless …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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Umberto Colombo wrote this position paper for distribution within COR. Its publication in these proceedings was to open discussion within CACOR and other national associations. Mr. Colombo was a member of the Italian National Council for Economy and Labour. He was Chairman of the Aurelio Peccei Foundation, of LEAD Europe, and of the scientific boards of ENI-Enrico Mattel Foundation and …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers
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By Julian Spector Texans can sign up to use solar-powered batteries and other energy devices to make money in the state’s power markets, under a pathbreaking new grid program. So-called virtual power plants (VPPs) perform grid roles previously reserved for large-scale power plants, but they do it by aggregating hundreds or thousands of buildings with controllable energy equipment, like batteries charged by rooftop solar. VPPs …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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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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An electric experiment 200+ single-family homes will be a part of this energy-resiliency experiment from the DOE, KB Home, SunPower Corp. and others in the Inland Empire of Southern California. They chose Menifee in Riverside County as a test bed community for this project because of its open space to build an all electric community from the ground up. KB …
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A question for you, dear reader: When you reflect on the climate communications you hear and see from our federal and provincial governments, does any of it seem like an emergency to you? Nope, me neither. And that’s a problem. Because we do indeed confront an existential threat, and the 11th hour is upon us. Emergency responses need to look and …
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What’s the best way for home batteries to help ease summer grid stress? This California utility is trying out two different models with Tesla and Sunrun. As a demand-response manager for California utility Pacific Gas & Electric, John Hernandez knows all about how hundreds or thousands of battery-equipped homes can be remotely controlled to serve the grid’s needs, much as central power plants …
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Rooftop solar systems, backup batteries, electric-vehicle chargers and smart thermostats and appliances make up the building blocks of virtual power plants. But developing the software that can turn thousands of these home energy devices into reliable power grid resources isn’t easy. In fact, it can take decades to perfect. Just ask Chris Wright, senior vice president of software technology and …
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Four new energy projects – including three battery energy storage complexes - may be coming to Chatham-Kent. At a recent meeting, council voted to support the projects in principle, allowing the proposals to move forward in the RFP process with the municipality's blessing. But council's nod is merely the first step in the approval process, with the final decision coming …
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“As customers switch to electric heat pumps to save on energy, there's less and less people to pay for pipelines, and so rates need to go up,” said Kent Elson, a lawyer representing the non-profit Environmental Defence that is intervening in Enbridge's application. “And that causes more people to switch to electric heat pumps to save money, which means there's …
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Just Have A Think Renewable rooftop power will play a vital role in the decentralised community grid systems of the future. Getting every ounce of power out of available rooftop spaces will be key to making that transition a success. Now a Dutch firm has shown us how it can be done, with several large successful REAL-WORLD installations.
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How do you train an autonomous vehicle to be ready for corner cases? At Zoox, we use two fundamental tools: simulation and structured testing. Simulation enables us to test and validate our AI very early in the development process. Structured tests allow us to evaluate the performance of the AI and vehicle in a controlled, real-world environment. Together, they form …
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10 February, 2023 The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, MP, PC Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance House of Commons, Ottawa, Canada K1A 0A6 Dear Minister Freeland, We, the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome (CACOR), write in response to your Ministry’s invitation to provide input into Budget 2023. In short, it is our belief that Budget 2023 must include …
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