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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 in February 2023 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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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: 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) Summary: Revenues and investments for 2,500 large companies have been measured against Corporate Knights' taxonomy of sustainable production and the results are encouraging. As a group, the companies with the highest sustainability impact …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Dr. David Harries Topic: Whither Accountability? So What?. Time: Mar 8, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81669500118?pwd=b1dkVTgzSkNxSFkrN25nazA3L2Fadz09 Meeting ID: 816 6950 0118 Passcode: 127420 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. …
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Are We so Busy being Rich or Famous or Saving the World that we stopped Really Living? Lessons from a Children’s Fantasy book called MOMO I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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Conservation highlights of 2022 © Rodrigo Duran Bahamon DATE: December 13, 2022 DOWNLOAD THE 2022 ANNUAL REPORT Though the world faces two existential crises—a rapidly warming planet and declining biodiversity—and continues to battle a global pandemic, conservation still made major strides toward protecting wildlife, wild places, and people in 2022. From nearly tripling wild tiger numbers in Nepal to securing the …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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All government — indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act — is founded on compromise and barter. Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton), historian (1834-1902)
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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"Extreme tactics have pushed the climate crisis to the top of the public discourse but also stirred debate over whether the activists are going too far." “'From being called terrorists to sitting with the justice minister in a talk show in the span of the week is quite a measure of success,' said Mr. Saldivia Gonzatti, the academic studying protests... …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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Mike and Claire Nickerson contributed this article in 2023 as part of their 7th Generation Initiative. Summoning a new order Would you like to see society aim directly for a healthy, secure humanity on a thriving planet? Shifting from the present economic model of perpetual expansion to one that is in balance with the Earth requires vision. Such vision is …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Writers
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Ford, GM, Google, and leading solar providers recently joined forces to demonstrate the tremendous potential electric vehicles (EVs) possess. With zero emissions, consumers have been rapidly adapting to the EV lifestyle. From legacy brands to newer startups alike, electric cars are being made and sold as quickly as they can be produced—a fact that speaks volumes about their growing popularity. …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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The home of the future won’t just be more efficient and powered by cleaner energy than today’s houses. It will interact with the broader energy system in ways that reward the people living there — and that help ensure there’s enough electricity for everyone else. The power grid is already straining to keep up with current demand in the face …
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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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Sustainability and savings are also likely to be selling points when the homes go on the market this year. Concrete is carbon-intensive, but Ballard says the material’s use at Wolf Ranch creates nearly airtight buildings that will reduce homeowners’ heating and cooling costs, while the solar panels installed on each residence will supply carbon-free electricity. Icon’s 3D-printed walls have exceeded …
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There is a lot of energy right under our feet, a relic from Earth's hot past as a ball of plasma. But how much can geothermal energy realistically do for us? What technologies are currently being pursued, what are the risks, and is it even carbon neutral? In this video we have collected all the relevant facts and numbers for …
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Julian Cribb--AM, author of 'How to Fix a Broken Planet' (Cambridge 2023)--talks about the requirements for human survival in the 21st century. We must address 10 major threats simultaneously. Link to | Julian Cribb discusses his new book.
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Waste from end-of-life solar panels presents opportunities to recover valuable materials and create jobs through recycling. According to the International Renewable Energy Agency, by 2030, the cumulative value of recoverable raw materials from end-of-life panels globally will be about $450 million, which is equivalent to the cost of raw materials currently needed to produce about 60 million new panels. Diverting …
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Preventing heat waste largely being ignored as solution to energy crisis, say environmental campaigners. Excess heat produced across Europe could almost power the entire region but preventing this waste is largely being ignored as a solution to the energy crisis, say environmental experts. “The global energy crisis is a wakeup call to stop wasting energy,” said Toby Morgan, senior manager for the …
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At 2 °C There Will Be 1,000 Million Refugees. According to the paper “The Future of the Human Niche” authored by climate expert and renowned scientist Timothy Lenton, At 2 °C of global warming there will be 1,000 million refugees. This is an estimate, but it is meant to notify global society and provide a benchmark science warning. The paper …
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Global energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide hit a record high last year (2022), although more clean technology such as solar power and electric vehicles helped limit the impact of increased coal and oil use, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday, 02 March 2023. Deep cuts in emissions, mainly from burning fossil fuels, will be needed over the coming …
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The historian Procopius, in his "History of the Wars", recorded that in the mid 530s something occurred which caused the sun to be covered by a dust veil, and that this continued for a year. Similar reports come from China, Japan, and Ireland. All across the world in the 530s, crops failed, famine struck, and then, in the 540s, in …
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A new tax credit to produce low-emission hydrogen could help bring critical technology to scale and create a vibrant economy of hydrogen production, purchase, and use, all while addressing one of our most challenging climate goals: slashing emissions from heavy industry. Clean hydrogen is necessary if we are going to decarbonize some of the most carbon-intensive parts of our economy — like shipping, aviation, …
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At Tesla’s Investor day, Elon Musk’s company pulled the curtain back on its latest Master Plan 3.0, as well as details about its plans to grow to “extreme size.”
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