Date: Wednesday January 16th 2019 CACOR Luncheon Speaker: Dr. Peter MacKinnon YouTube video Link … About the presentation: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is constantly in the news with stories of promise and threat for good and bad. Political leaders have declared it a national priority, the global high tech industry is racing AI apps to markets and […]
reminding–1.5 degrees
Nearing 1.5 degrees I try not to be repetitive here, but,…
Can tourism coexist with a fragile planet? Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation of the World’s largest industry
Dr. Ted Manning is a geographer, a full member of the Club of Rome and a former Chair of CACOR. In this presentation the overall impact of the tourism sector and of efforts to defuse its worst impacts and enhance any positive contributions it can make to global ecological preservation are addressed. In many respects […]
Scaling up Urban Low-carbon Innovations -Rebecca Aird
A presentation on Low Carbon Innovation Ottawa – an initiative that is part of a pan-Canadian effort (Low Carbon Cities Canada) to strengthen and hone local capacity to bring to scale promising initiatives to significantly reduce Ottawa’s GHG emissions. Link to YouTube…
“If Global Warming is so Bad, Why aren’t scientists doing something about it?”Alan Emery
For over a century, scientists have predicted that if we allow CO2 to get abundant enough in the atmosphere it will cause the surface of the planet to warm up slowly and eventually get really hot, hot enough to do real damage to our health and well-being, perhaps even destroy our civil society, and in […]
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