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CACOR Live Schedule
October 8, 2024 @ 01:00 - October 8, 2027 @ 13:00 EDT
All scheduled future CACOR Live presentations are:
| 9-Oct-24 | Dr. Charlie Hall | Rescheduled – no CACOR Live this week |
| 16-Oct-24 | David Dougherty | Debates and discussions of current topics |
| 23-Oct-24 | Ralph Torrie | Old fashioned trade war trumps climate change. |
| 30-Oct-24 | Andrew, Ruben and Gabriella | Systems Perspective on the Problematique – What does it Show? |
| 6-Nov-24 | Geoff Strong | A Practical Way Forward with the Climate Crisis |
| 13-Nov-24 | Julie Segal | Why Financial Regulation is a Climate Solution |
| 20-Nov-24 | Ruth Waldick | Navigating climate adaption in small, rural communities |
| 27-Nov-24 | Dr. Charlie Hall | OUR ENERGY FUTURE : What scares me |
| 4-Dec-24 | ||
| 11-Dec-24 | Ugo Bardi | (TBD from CoR) |
| 18-Dec-24 | Melissa Kenney | US Climate Adaptation with Equitable and Just Action: Insights from the 5th US National Climate Assessment |
| 25-Dec-24 | closed | Week off |
| 1-Jan-25 | closed | Week off |
| 8-Jan-25 | ||
| 15-Jan-25 |
CACOR Promotional short videos.
Full listing of CACOR Live presentations:
| SPONSOR | # | DATE | SPEAKER | FULL LISTING OF TOPICS |
| Art Hunter | 1 | 15-Apr-20 | Dr. Ted Manning | Greening China Challenge |
| Art Hunter | 2 | 22-Apr-20 | Bill Pugsley | Measuring Ottawa’s Air Pollution |
| Art Hunter | 3 | 29-Apr-20 | Dr. Art Hunter | Off Grid for 200 days in 2020 |
| Art Hunter | 4 | 6-May-20 | Dr. John Hollins | Stumbling from Rio to Paris |
| Art Hunter | 5 | 13-May-20 | Ruben Nelson | Civilizational Overshoot |
| Art Hunter | 6 | 20-May-20 | Gordon Kubaneck | Mental Health and Covid-19 |
| Art Hunter | 7 | 27-May-20 | John Meyer | Canada’s Energy History (guest talk) |
| Art Hunter | 8 | 3-Jun-20 | Values Committee | The entanglement of these times conditioning the future |
| Art Hunter | 9 | 10-Jun-20 | Dr. Ted Manning | Pre-Columbian Cultures of the Americas–what happened? |
| Ted Manning | 10 | 17-Jun-20 | Marianne Armstrong | Adapting Canada’s Building Codes for Climate Change |
| Art Hunter | 11 | 24-Jun-20 | David Hutton | Whistleblowers During the Covid-19 Pandemic |
| 12 | 2-Jul-20 | Paul Maillet | Racism and transforming our own biases | |
| Art Hunter | 13 | 8-Jul-20 | Paul Koch | Stockholm 1972 revisited |
| Art Hunter | 14 | 15-Jul-20 | Dr. Anitra Thorhaug | Scrubbing Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere with Seagrass |
| Art Hunter | 15 | 29-Jul-20 | Vic Buxton | Environment, Ethics and Sustainable Development |
| Art Hunter | 16 | 12-Aug-20 | Zack Jacobson | Flu and SARS, speculations about COVID |
| Art Hunter | 17 | 26-Aug-20 | Jon Legg | Arms Control and Disarmament |
| Art Hunter | 18 | 9-Sep-20 | John Meyer | Canada’s Energy Future (guest talk) |
| Art Hunter | 19 | 16-Sep-20 | Dr. Haifa Feki | Climate Change and Water Resources |
| Art Hunter | 20 | 23-Sep-20 | Dr. Art Hunter | Vertical wall solar power and a virus disinfection chamber |
| Art Hunter | 21 | 30-Sep-20 | CACOR AGM | No featured presentation – members only |
| Art Hunter | 22 | 7-Oct-20 | Jeff Passmore | The Industrial Bioeconomy Revolution |
| Art Hunter | 23 | 14-Oct-20 | Catherine Smith | Food Security for Humankind: Past, Present and Future |
| Art Hunter | 24 | 21-Oct-20 | Gordon Kubaneck | Sustainable Living at Plump Robin Hollow |
| Art Hunter | 25 | 28-Oct-20 | Jennifer Manning | Global Procurement in times of Covid-19 |
| David Dougherty | 26 | 4-Nov-20 | Jean Dougherty | A Travelogue Through Time |
| Art Hunter | 27 | 11-Nov-20 | Dr. John Purdie | Carbon Dioxide and the Biosphere |
| Art Hunter | 28 | 18-Nov-20 | Arna Einarsdottir | Orchestral Music and Social Change |
| Art Hunter | 29 | 25-Nov-20 | Dr. Barry Bruce | An Off-Grid Root Cellar |
| Art Hunter | 30 | 2-Dec-20 | Dr. R. Walker | Re-imagining Nuclear Energy |
| Art Hunter | 31 | 9-Dec-20 | Dave Dougherty | Part 1 – How a Novel Virus Up-ended the Modern World – Basics / The SARS2 Virus |
| Art Hunter | 32 | 16-Dec-20 | Ruben Nelson | “Alberta: What’s Going on and Why It Matters to all Canadians.” |
| Art Hunter | 0 | 23-Dec-20 | Christmas break | |
| Art Hunter | 0 | 30-Dec-20 | New Year’s break | |
| Art Hunter | 33 | 6-Jan-21 | Dr. Linda Duxbury | Leading and Managing During Times of Disruption and Crisis |
| Art Hunter | 0 | 12-Jan-21 | USA CoR | Dr. Evan Ellis – China in the Western Hemisphere |
| Art Hunter | 34 | 13-Jan-21 | David Pollock | Developing policies that reduce Inequality and improve Genuine Wealth including Climate Justice |
| Art Hunter | 35 | 20-Jan-21 | Huguette Labelle | The Way that Women Deal with Global Issues |
| Art Hunter | 0 | 21-Jan-21 | CMOS | Holocene climate variability of the North American Arctic and impacts on terrestrial ecosystems & human populations |
| Art Hunter | 36 | 27-Jan-21 | David Dougherty | Part Two: The Societal Responses and Effects of SARS2 |
| Art Hunter | 37 | 3-Feb-21 | John Gilmore | Taking LEAP to education liberation in Africa |
| Art Hunter | 38 | 10-Feb-21 | Vic Buxton | An overview of the Major Elements of the International Environmental Agency |
| Art Hunter | 39 | 17-Feb-21 | Dr. Jamie Stephen | District Energy in Canada |
| Art Hunter | 40 | 24-Feb-21 | John Meyer | Populism; Rebuilding the National Conversation |
| Valerie Hume | 41 | 3-Mar-21 | Dr. Madeline Weld | Does Canada need a population policy? |
| Art Hunter | 42 | 10-Mar-21 | Marilyn Mosley Gordanier | The Rise of Distance Learning and its Global Ramifications :Example, Educating Girls in Afghanistan |
| Art Hunter | 43 | 17-Mar-21 | Dr. Gerald Kutney | Engaging politicians and climate deniers |
| Art Hunter | 0 | 18-Mar-21 | Dr. Ronnie Drever | Natural Climate Solutions for Canada, cmos.ca/site/Ottawa |
| Art Hunter | 44 | 24-Mar-21 | Margaret McCuaig-Johnston | Challenges in Dealing with Today’s China: |
| Art Hunter | 45 | 31-Mar-21 | Dr. Charles Hall | Limits to Growth at 50 years: Brief history and present implications |
| Art Hunter | 46 | 7-Apr-21 | Jessica Lambert | Biophysical Economics: energy’s role in economic systems |
| Art Hunter | 47 | 14-Apr-21 | Dr. Timiebi Aganaba | Towards Space Sustainability: Lessons Learned from Environmental Liability Regimes |
| Art Hunter | 48 | 21-Apr-21 | Vic Buxton | “The Development Phase of the Montreal Protocol” |
| Art Hunter | 0 | 21-Apr-21 | Laura Twidle | The Impacts of Extreme Events on the Canadian Insurance Industry, cmos.ca/site/Ottawa |
| Art Hunter | 49 | 28-Apr-21 | Ralph Torrie | The mother of disruption – automobiles |
| Art Hunter | 50 | 5-May-21 | Eric Usher | Is responsible banking an oxymoron? The UN’s work with the banking sector since 1992 |
| Art Hunter | 51 | 12-May-21 | Dr. William Rees | Too clever by half, but not nearly smart enough |
| Art Hunter | 52 | 19-May-21 | Derek Paul | A Leap to an Ecological Economy. |
| Art Hunter | 53 | 26-May-21 | Sharon Coward | Ottawa EnviroCentre – OSF Fund |
| Art Hunter | 54 | 2-Jun-21 | Dr. Don Cowan | A Strategy for Sharing World Environmental Data & Information |
| Art Hunter | 55 | 9-Jun-21 | Dr. Ted Manning | Wellbeing for small communities |
| Art Hunter | 56 | 16-Jun-21 | Dr. Alan Menzel-Jones | The Perfect Storm: Canada’s future in peril |
| Art Hunter | 57 | 23-Jun-21 | Sundaura Alford-Purvis | Land use planning can affect climate change |
| Art Hunter | 58 | 30-Jun-21 | Dr. Adam Fenech | Climate change – We’re screwed |
| David Dougherty | 59 | 7-Jul-21 | Dr. Peter Ottensmeyer | Fast-spectrum SMR technology to combat climate change |
| Art Hunter | 60 | 14-Jul-21 | Raymond Leury | Expected policies of Canada and the USA on Electric Vehicle markets |
| Art Hunter | 61 | 21-Jul-21 | Bruce Fanjoy | Operations of the Millview Passive House |
| Art Hunter | 62 | 28-Jul-21 | Paul Beckwith | Methane and clathrates: Climate calamity update |
| xxxx | 0 | 4-Aug-21 | closed | Two weeks off in August |
| xxxx | 0 | 11-Aug-21 | closed | Two weeks off in August |
| Art Hunter | 63 | 18-Aug-21 | Dr. Julia Kim | Beyond GDP, Beyond Numbers: Lessons from Bhutan’s journey towards Gross National Happiness. |
| Art Hunter | 64 | 25-Aug-21 | Dr. Yannick Beaudoin | The WEAll Can Journey: Re-imagining the purpose of an economy. |
| Art Hunter | 65 | 1-Sep-21 | David Dougherty & David Pollock | Finding Pathways to Climate Stability. |
| Art Hunter | 66 | 8-Sep-21 | Els Vanbeckevoort | The global water emergency: go digital or go dark. |
| Art Hunter | 67 | 15-Sep-21 | Sarah Dougherty | The importance of interdisciplinary planning and execution of remediation projects for contaminated sites. |
| Art Hunter | 68 | 22-Sep-21 | Mike Nickerson | Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay |
| xxxx | 0 | 23-Sep-21 | Peter Kimbell | Canadian Weather Radar – Public Display Update https://cmos.ca/site/ottawa |
| Bill Pugsley | 69 | 29-Sep-21 | Gordon Kubanek | eLearning: friend or foe? |
| Phil Reilly | 70 | 6-Oct-21 | Ryan Katz-Rosene | Scaling Climate Action: Lessons from (and for) the Flying Less Movement. |
| John Hollins | 71 | 13-Oct-21 | Beatrice Olivastri | A progress report on saving the bees and how it connects with climate change. |
| John Hollins | 72 | 20-Oct-21 | Dr. Ian Burton | How to Deal with the Adaptation Deficit. |
| CMOS | 0 | 21-Oct-21 | Dr. Alan Betts | Climate Change and Society. https://cmos.ca/site/ottawa |
| xxxx | 0 | 25-Oct-21 | CACOR Values Committee | The Paradox of Human Nature in the Climate Crisis |
| John Hollins | 73 | 27-Oct-21 | Ralph Torrie | Mission retrofit: Buildings for the Post Petroleum World. |
| Jean Dougherty | 74 | 3-Nov-21 | Ruben Nelson | Alberta’s Struggle with the Future: An Insider’s View. |
| Art Hunter | 75 | 10-Nov-21 | Dr. Bob Walker | Reimagining Nuclear Energy–An Update. |
| Ruben Nelson | 76 | 17-Nov-21 | Bob Sandford | What On Earth Is Going On? Global Reset & the Future of Hope. |
| xxxx | 0 | 22-Nov-21 | CACOR Women’s Committee | What is a Just Transition? |
| Rick Carpenter | 77 | 24-Nov-21 | John McClintock | The Climate Emergency: Canada’s special role. |
| Ruben Nelson | 78 | 1-Dec-21 | Dr. William Rees | On the virtues of self-delusion–or maybe not! |
| Zack Jacobson | 79 | 8-Dec-21 | Paul Beckwith | COP26: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. |
| Art Hunter | 80 | 15-Dec-21 | Dr. Ian Burton | Q&A forum on COP26 proceedings by a participant. |
| xxxx | 0 | 20-Dec-21 | CACOR Values Committee | People and Nature over Profit. |
| xxxx | 0 | 24-Dec-21 | closed | Christmas break |
| xxxx | 0 | 31-Dec-21 | closed | New Year’s break |
| Phil Reilly | 81 | 5-Jan-22 | Dr. Meg Sears | Science for Public Health and Effective Environmental Law. |
| Ruben Nelson | 82 | 12-Jan-22 | Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon | World3 at 50: What it got right, and what it got wrong. |
| xxxx | 13-Jan-22 | Jerome C. Glenn | COVID-19 Scenarios. | |
| Phil Reilly | 83 | 19-Jan-22 | Rick Lindgren | Climate Change and the Law: Issues and Opportunities. |
| xxxx | 20-Jan-22 | Astrid Schetselaar | Climate Change in the Yukon: register https://cmos.ca/site/ottawa | |
| Bob Jones | 84 | 26-Jan-22 | Dr. Geoff Strong | Climate Crisis and Net-Zero Emissions Deceptions. |
| Phil Reilly | 85 | 2-Feb-22 | Dr. Pierre Mineau | More powerful insecticides, declining insect populations, and bats. What could go wrong? |
| xxxx | 7-Feb-22 | CACOR Values Committee | Schizogenesis: The Expansion of Consciousness–Crisis and Opportunities. | |
| David Dougherty | 86 | 9-Feb-22 | David Miller | Cities and Climate Change. |
| Ted Davie | 87 | 16-Feb-22 | Dr. Jack Alpert | Imagining a Sustainable Civilization. |
| David Dougherty | 88 | 23-Feb-22 | Dr. Tzeporah Berman | International Cooperation to Align Fossil Fuel Production with Paris Goals: A Bold New Idea. |
| Zack Jacobson | 89 | 2-Mar-22 | Dr. Raymond Murphy | The Accelerating Treadmill of Fossil-Fuelled Practices and Assessing What to Do about It. |
| Gabriella GrefInnes | 90 | 9-Mar-22 | Peter MacKinnon | Smart Cities: What are they? |
| Gordon Kubaneck | 91 | 16-Mar-22 | Dr. Meg Sears & David McRobert | Why isn’t the Canadian Environmental Protection Act working, and how can it be made relevant in the 2020s and beyond? |
| 17-Mar-22 | Eric Oliver (CMOS) | Bridging knowledge systems: Scientific and Inuit knowledge of the ocean and sea ice | ||
| Phil Reilly | 92 | 23-Mar-22 | Dr. Jennifer Purdy | Health Impacts of Climate Change. |
| Phil Reilly | 93 | 30-Mar-22 | Darrin Qualman | Climate, farms, food, emissions, and solutions. |
| Myles Flaig | 94 | 6-Apr-22 | Dr. Sailesh Rao | Climate Healers: Food is Climate (Cow in the Room). |
| Ian Whyte | 95 | 13-Apr-22 | Frank de Jong | Henry George Economics: For a Just, Green, and Prosperous Society. |
| John Hollins | 96 | 20-Apr-22 | Dr. Anders Hayden | A Wellbeing Economy: Kinder, Gentler Growth or a Breakthrough Beyond Growth? |
| Ted Manning | 97 | 27-Apr-22 | Dr. Anders Wijkman | Circular Economy seems so obvious–why so slow in the making? |
| Grodon Kubanek | 98 | 4-May-22 | Dr. Alan Betts | The Earth’s View of Climate Change. |
| Phil Reilly | 99 | 11-May-22 | Michael Way | The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership–safeguarding wild plants for our future. (Kew Gardens) |
| Rick Carpenter | 100 | 18-May-22 | Bruce Usher | Investing in the Era of Climate Change. |
| xxxx | 24-May-22 | CACOR Values Committee | The Values of Conflict. (postponed) | |
| 25-May-22 | Postponed | Postponed due to Ottawa’s electrical grid failure. | ||
| David Dougherty | 101 | 1-Jun-22 | Dr. Ralph Martin | Agriculture in the Anthropocene. |
| Mike Nickerson | 102 | 8-Jun-22 | Dr. Ronald Colman | How Do We Create the Economy We Need? |
| Mike Nickerson | 103 | 15-Jun-22 | Virginia Hammon | Money Matters: A Fulcrum for Change. |
| Ted Manning | 104 | 22-Jun-22 | Ruben Nelson | Transcending Our MTI Form of Civilization: Exploring the New Core Work of the 21st Century. |
| Bill Tyson | 105 | 29-Jun-22 | Raymond Leury | Vehicle to Grid Integration–A Great Solution to Store Renewable Energy. |
| xxxx | 4-Jul-22 | CACOR Values Committee | The Values of Conflict. | |
| Rick Carpenter | 106 | 6-Jul-22 | Dr. Rosalind Warner | Post Anthropocene. |
| Jon Legg | 107 | 13-Jul-22 | Dr. Madeline Weld | Green Growth: The Mantra of Our Cognitive Dissonance. |
| Ted Davie | 108 | 20-Jul-22 | Dr. Delon Omrow | Crimes Against the Planet? |
| Rick Carpenter | 109 | 27-Jul-22 | Dr. Art Hunter | The Energy Transition: How Microgrids Can Help Rebuild Ontario’s Power Grid and Electrify Everything. |
| David Dougherty | 110 | 3-Aug-22 | Julian Cribb | Our Existential Crisis: what is to be done? |
| Bill Tyson | 111 | 10-Aug-22 | Dr. Richard van der Jagt and Dr. Meg Sears | Improving Environmental Protection and Public Health: opportunities during Canadian legal and policy reform. |
| 17-Aug-22 | closed | Week off in August. | ||
| 24-Aug-22 | closed | Week off in August. | ||
| Mike Nickerson | 112 | 31-Aug-22 | Andrew Gaines | Introducing a New Paradigm for Social Change. |
| Phil Reilly | 113 | 7-Sep-22 | Dr. John Thor Arnason | The Future of Medicinal Biodiversity: Plants and Other Organisms. |
| Mike Nickerson | 114 | 14-Sep-22 | Andrew Welch | The Value Crisis: Re-visioning What We Know. |
| David Dougherty | 115 | 21-Sep-22 | Julian Cribb | The Age of Renewable Food. How we can feed everyone, bring peace, and end extinction. |
| 26-Sep-22 | Jean Dougherty | CACOR Annual General Meeting. | ||
| Jean Dougherty | 116 | 28-Sep-22 | Dr. Karen Shragg | Sprawling Over America: Why the Endangered Species Act Isn’t Enough. |
| Ted Davie | 117 | 5-Oct-22 | Dr. Jack Alpert | A non-injury producing civilization. (Part 2) |
| Jean Dougherty | 118 | 12-Oct-22 | Dr. Nicole Morgan | Famine as a Mass Destruction Weapon. |
| Rick Carpenter | 119 | 19-Oct-22 | John Meyer | Pivoting on Climate and Depletion by Substituting Progress for Growth. |
| John Hollins | 120 | 26-Oct-22 | Dr. Charlie Hall | How much oil remains for the world to produce? Comparing assessment methods, and separating fact from fiction. |
| Art Hunter | 121 | 2-Nov-22 | Jack Gibbons | Moving Ontario to a Zero-carbon Electricity Grid and Lower Energy Bills by 2030. |
| Ruben Nelson | 122 | 9-Nov-22 | Dr. David Harries | Human security: Its past, its present and a more relevant future. |
| Ruben Nelson | 123 | 16-Nov-22 | Dr. Michael Marien | 50 Years of Fragmented Futures: From WFS/CAFS to WAAS/CACOR and SSG/SDGs. |
| Geoff Strong | 124 | 23-Nov-22 | Garth Mihalcheon | A Thinker’s Guide to Surviving the Anthropocene: Essential Tools for our Cognitive Toolkits. |
| CMOS – Bob Jones | 25-Nov-22 | Dr. Parisa A. Ariya | Nano-and microparticles in the era of Climate Change and COVID-19. (https://cmos.ca/site/ottawa) | |
| Richard van der Jagt | 125 | 30-Nov-22 | Deleted | |
| Bill Tyson | 126 | 7-Dec-22 | Raymond Leury | Current EV Market and Impact of Battery Technology Developments. |
| Ted Davie | 127 | 16:00 on 14 Dec 2022 |
John Schmidt | Addressing Complex Global Problems using Foresight and Synthesis. (speaker is in Australia) |
| 21-Dec-22 | Closed | Week off for Christmas. | ||
| 28-Dec-22 | Closed | Week off for New Year. | ||
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| Rick Carpenter | 128 | 4-Jan-23 | Phil Helwig | Comparison of Renewables: Hydro, solar, and wind. |
| Mike Nickerson | 129 | 11-Jan-23 | Dr. Brian Czech | Degrowth – Toward a Steady-State Economy. |
| Peter Meincke | 130 | 18-Jan-23 | David Dougherty | New book–Do Yourself a Favour: Live Lightly, Live Better. |
| Nigel Weir | 131 | 25-Jan-23 | Alison Woodley | We can’t wait! Delivering on Canada’s land and ocean protection commitments |
| John Hollins | 132 | 1-Feb-23 | Dr. Sheldon Williamson | Electrification 2.0: Current Status and Future Trends. |
| Steve Kurtz | 133 | 8-Feb-23 | Dr. Derek Paul | Socio-economic changes to consider |
| John Hollins | 134 | 15-Feb-23 | Dr. Peter MacKinnon | Planetary Limits: Coming Future Threats. |
| Richard van der Jagt | 135 | Tuesday 21-Feb-23 | Dr. Melissa Lem | PaRx: a prescription for patient and planetary health. |
| John Hollins | 136 | 1-Mar-23 | Ralph Torrie | Doing Well by Doing Good — Encouraging indications from corporate revenue and investment trends. |
| Ruben Nelson | 137 | 8-Mar-23 | Dr. David Harries | Whither Accountability? So What? |
| Claude Buettner | 138 | 15-Mar-23 | Dr. Mahmoud Kabalan | Microgrids in the Age of the Anthropocene. |
| Claude Buettner | 139 | 22-Mar-23 | Hector Garcia | Intergenerational Alliances to Counter Silo Mindset on Economic Growth vs Humanity, Nature, and Reason. |
| John Meyer | 140 | 29-Mar-23 | Heidi Radford Legg | Will knowing who runs and funds our media rebuild trust. |
| David Pollock | 141 | 5-Apr-23 | Dr. Ted Manning | Changing the Discussion from Growth to Wellbeing |
| David Dougherty | 142 | 12-Apr-23 | Julian Cribb | Earth Detox: How and why we must clean up our planet. |
| Phil Reilly | 143 | 19-Apr-23 | Marianne Armstrong | Supporting Climate Change Adaptation of Canada’s Built Environment |
| Barry Bruce | 144 | 26-Apr-23 | Dr. Jack Alpert | Civilization’s “Running Out of Gas” Story |
| Claude Buettner | 145 | 3-May-23 | Michael Dowd | The Big Picture: Beyond Hope and Fear. |
| Richard Van Der Jagt | 146 | 10-May-23 | Dr. Monica Gattinger | Public confidence on the road to net zero: a key ingredient for emissions reductions success. |
| Gordon Kubanek | 147 | 17-May-23 | Walter Knitl | Sustainability through the Internet of Things and AI. |
| Phil Reilly | 148 | 24-May-23 | Dr. Robin Sleith | Connectivity between freshwater and marine ecosystems |
| John Hollins | 149 | 31-May-23 | Paul Koch | The Story of Easter Island – A Metaphor for Our Planet |
| Ruben Nelson | 150 | 7-Jun-23 | Darrel Rowledge | Saving humanity — from itself: the case for paradigm change |
| Phil Reilly | 151 | 14-Jun-23 | Dr. Diana Beresford-Kroeger | Forests and Climate Change. |
| Jean Dougherty | 152 | 21-Jun-23 | Dr. Meg Sears | Sustainable Agriculture: Lessons from the 1930s-on, to inform a 2023 Strategy and Partnership. |
| Ted Manning | 153 | 28-Jun-23 | Ruben Nelson | What Can We Make of the Alberta Election? Implications for Canada. |
| Bob Jones | 154 | 5-Jul-23 | Paul Beckwith | Updates on Abrupt Climate System Change: The Science and Consequences. |
| Art Hunter | 155 | 12-Jul-23 | Mike Fletcher | City of Ottawa: Emissions Reduction Inventory and Community Energy Planning. |
| Jon Legg | 156 | 19-Jul-23 | Dr. Carmen Hust and Gordon Kubanek | Social Density Stress as a Missing Limit to Growth. |
| Steve Kurtz | 157 | 26-Jul-23 | Dr. Madeline Weld | Is Natural Population Decline a Concern? |
| Jon Legg | 158 | 2-Aug-23 | Gordon Kubanek | Beyond Denial: A Franciscan View of Recovery from Our Growth Addicted Society. |
| Phil Reilly | 159 | 9-Aug-23 | Dr. David Lapen | Reducing the Environmental Footprint of Agriculture via Nature-based Activities and Beneficial Management Practices. |
| 16-Aug-23 | closed | Week off in August. | ||
| 23-Aug-23 | closed | Week off in August. | ||
| Bill Pugsley | 160 | 30-Aug-23 | Dr. Peter MacKinnon | Artificial Intelligence is on the Rampage: A Call for Guardrails & Regulation. |
| Claude Buettner | 161 | 6-Sep-23 | Lierre Keith | Bright Green Lies. |
| David Pollock | 162 | 13-Sep-23 | Julia Barnes | The Imminent Threat of Deep Sea Mining. |
| Claude Buettner | 163 | 20-Sep-23 | Max Wilbert | The Thacker Pass Lithium Mine—Case Study in the Failure of Green Growth. |
| Phil Reilly | 164 | 27-Sep-23 | Brian Kelly | The Kelly Household’s Journey Towards Zero Carbon. |
| Anitra Thorhaug | 165 | 4-Oct-23 | Sandrine Dixon-DeCleve | Earth 4 All discussion. |
| Anitra Thorhaug | 166 | 11-Oct-23 | Marilyn Mosley Gordonier | Girls Education In Afghanistan Today. |
| Mike Nickerson | 167 | 18-Oct-23 | Andrew Welch | Our Second Chance–Changing Course and Solving the Value Crisis. |
| Ruben Nelson | 168 | 25-Oct-23 | David Harries | GOALS FOR EVERYTHING FOR ALL (G4E4A) ….AGAIN? Maybe a Few? |
| Van Hudson | 169 | 1-Nov-23 | Jerome Clayton Glenn | Transition from Artificial Narrow to Artificial General Intelligence Governance. |
| Claude Buettner | 170 | 8-Nov-23 | David Dougherty | The Publication of ‘The Great Disruption.’ |
| Dave Dougherty | 171 | 15-Nov-23 | Dr. Peter Carter | An Intensifying Global Climate Emergency and What Must Be Done |
| Fred Carpenter | 172 | 22 Nov 23 4 p.m. start | Dr. Shivam Saxena | What Next on V2X in Ontario: Lessons Learned from Pilots. |
| TBD Was Phil | 173 | 29-Nov-23 | Greg Mikkelson | Rights of Nature for a Steady State Economy. |
| Gordon Kubanek | 174 | 6-Dec-23 | Dr. Quentin Grafton | Food, Energy, and Water Security. |
| Claude Buettner | 175 | 13-Dec-23 | LaUra Schmidt | How to Live in a Chaotic Climate. |
| 176 | 20-Dec-23 | Christmas Break. | ||
| 177 | 27-Dec-23 | New Year’s Break. | ||
| Jean Dougherty | 178 | 3-Jan-24 | Raymond Leury | GHG Trends and Reasons for Hope and Rapid Progress on the Climate Front. |
| Bob Jones | 179 | 10-Jan-24 | Dr. Geoff Strong | The Immoralities of Climate Change. |
| Phil Reilly | 180 | 17-Jan-24 | Dr. Raymond Desjardins | The Evolution of Agrometeorological Research in Canada- Emphasis on Mitigating Climate Change. |
| John Hollins | 181 | 25-Jan-24 | Dr. Kent Peacock | 2C: Guardrail or Guide Rail to Disaster? |
| Steve Kurtz | 182 | 31-Jan-24 | John Meyer | The Real Economy Doesn’t Need Growth. |
| Nigel Weir | 183 | 7-Feb-24 | Raymond Leury | Part 2: GHG Trends and Reasons for Hope and Rapid Progress on the Climate Front. |
| Nigel Weir | 184 | 14-Feb-24 | Dr. Brian Czech | GDP as a Proxy for Ecological Footprint |
| Phil Reilly | 185 | 21-Feb-24 | Dr. Michael Gilbertson | Human Health Impacts of Toxic Chemicals in the Air and Water around Us. |
| Jean Dougherty | 186 | 28-Feb-24 | Eric Miller and Peri Dworatzek | Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity in a Canadian and Global Context |
| David Dougherty | 187 | 6-Mar-24 | Dr. John Pomeroy | The Status and Future of Freshwater Supply in Canada |
| Gordon Kubanek | 188 | 13-Mar-24 | Rob Samulack | The Climate Crisis is a Health Crisis |
| Phil Reilly | 189 | 20-Mar-24 | Dr. Irvin Waller | Secrets of Persuading Politicians to Halve Violent Crime in 5 Years in the Age of Science and Social Media: Are There Lessons for CACOR? |
| David Hutton | 190 | 27-Mar-24 | Dr. John Cook | Understanding the misleading techniques used in misinformation about climate change. |
| Richard van der Jagt | 191 | 3-Apr-24 | Lalith Gunaratne | Renewable Energy Adventures: Solar and Small Hydro Stories that bind Canada and Sri Lanka |
| Claude Buettner | 192 | 10-Apr-24 | Jamie Kneen | The Perpetual Pollution Machine: Acid Mine Drainage and Mine Waste |
| Claude Buettner | 193 | 17-Apr-24 | Dr. Alan Betts | Understanding Climate Change as Mother Nature Takes Over |
| Steve Kurtz | 194 | 24-Apr-24 | Dr. Brian Czech | Gag-Ordered No More |
| Richard van der Jagt | 195 | 1-May-24 | Karine Peloffy | It’s time the financial sector invested in our health and well-being |
| Gordon Kubanek | 196 | 8-May-24 | Dr. Karen Shragg | What if Wolves Could Vote. (population growth) |
| Richard van der Jagt | 197 | 15-May-24 | Dr. Amir Hakami | The buy-one-get-one-free of climate policy: underrated role of public health in national decarbonization narrative. |
| Ted Manning | 198 | 22-May-24 | Julie Johnston | Greening the Heart of Education. |
| Claude Buettner | 199 | 29-May-24 | Paul Beckwith | Global Tipping Points: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly |
| David Pollock | 200 | 5-Jun-24 | Dr. Ted Manning | Progressing from Growth and Greed to Sustaining Values of Human and Ecological Wellbeing. |
| David Pollock | 201 | 12-Jun-24 | David Longworth | Preparing for Pandemics. |
| Claude Buettner | 202 | 19-Jun-24 | Nandita Bajaj | Confronting population denial amid the unraveling polycrisis |
| Raymond Leury | 203 | 26-Jun-24 | Paul Martin | Hydrogen, Hopium and Scale. |
| Rick Carpenter | 204 | 3-Jul-24 | Rosemary Kralik | Agriculture, Climate and Health – How Regenerative Agriculture and Plant-Rich diets Could Reverse Climate Change and Improve Human Health |
| and Dr. Barry Bruce | ||||
| Claude Buettner | 205 | 10-Jul-24 | James Howard Kunstler | Breaking Through the Fog of Unreality |
| Brian Czech | 206 | 17-Jul-24 | Dave Rollo | Keep Our Counties Great: Implementing Limits to Growth at the Local Level. |
| Peter MacKinnon | 207 | 24-Jul-24 | Bob Walker | Thermal Networks and Nuclear Energy – a pathway to decarbonizing building heating |
| Claude Buettner | 208 | 31-Jul-24 | Ruben Nelson | Permacrisis, Polycrisis, Metacrisis: An attempt to Clarify the Human Problematique – Just what are we in for? |
| Nigel Weir | 209 | 7-Aug-24 | Raymond Leury | Part 3: Do we have the Materials for a Green Transition? |
| 14-Aug-24 | closed | Week off in August. | ||
| 21-Aug-24 | closed | Week off in August. | ||
| Jon Legg | 210 | 28-Aug-24 | David Hutton | Whistleblower Protection and Global Warming |
| John Hollins | 211 | 4-Sep-24 | Art Hunter & David Head | The Payback Project and Ultra-Low Overnight electricity rates |
| Ruben Nelson | 212 | 11-Sep-24 | David Harries | WHENCE & WHITHER CANADA’S SOVEREIGNTY? |
| Madeleine Aubrey | 213 | 18-Sep-24 | Maude Barlow | Facing the Global Water Crisis with Knowledge and Hope |
| Richard van der Jagt | 214 | 25-Sep-24 | Trevor Hancock | The Wellbeing Society: A response to declining planetary health and increasing inequality |
| Steve Kurtz | 215 | 2-Oct-24 | Dr. Brian Czech | Developing the Steady State Economy Act |
| Ruben Nelson | 216 | 9-Oct-24 | Dr. Charlie Hall | Rescheduled – no CACOR Live this week |
| TBD | 217 | 16-Oct-24 | David Dougherty | Debates and discussions of current topics |
| Raymond Leury | 218 | 23-Oct-24 | Ralph Torrie | Old fashioned trade war trumps climate change. |
| Ted Manning | 219 | 30-Oct-24 | Andrew, Ruben and Gabriella | Systems Perspective on the Problematique – What does it Show? |
| TBD | 220 | 6-Nov-24 | Geoff Strong | A Practical Way Forward with the Climate Crisis |
| Richard van der Jagt | 221 | 13-Nov-24 | Julie Segal | Why Financial Regulation is a Climate Solution |
| TBD | 222 | 20-Nov-24 | Ruth Waldick | Navigating climate adaption in small, rural communities |
| 223 | 27-Nov-24 | Dr. Charlie Hall | OUR ENERGY FUTURE : What scares me | |
| 224 | 4-Dec-24 | |||
| Claude Buettner | 225 | 11-Dec-24 | Ugo Bardi | (TBD from CoR) |
| Claude Buettner | 226 | 18-Dec-24 | Melissa Kenney | US Climate Adaptation with Equitable and Just Action: Insights from the 5th US National Climate Assessment |
| 227 | 25-Dec-24 | closed | Week off | |
| 228 | 1-Jan-25 | closed | Week off | |
| 229 | 8-Jan-25 | |||
| 230 | 15-Jan-25 |
Standby as Emergency Last Minute Replacement Speakers
| Ruben Nelson | ||
| Art Hunter | ||
| Wellbeing | ||