Canadian Association for the Club of Rome
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Speaker: Andrew Welch Topic: Our Second Chance--Changing Course and Solving the Value Crisis. Time: Oct 18, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Many solutions have been proposed for our global crises - one of the most recent and exciting being the Earth4All vision from the Club of Rome. Still, progress is not promising. Why? Society has not […]
Speaker: David Harries Topic: GOALS FOR EVERYTHING FOR ALL (G4E4A) ….AGAIN? Maybe a Few? Time: Oct 25, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: In 1970 the UNGA established 0.7% of GNP, or GNI, as rich nations’ target for Overseas Development Assistance. Very few countries have ever achieved it. Thirty years later, in the worried excitement […]
Speaker: Jerome Clayton Glenn Topic: Transition from Artificial Narrow to Artificial General Intelligence Governance. Time: Nov 01, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: The Millennium Project has completed the first phase of an international assessment of how to govern the potential transition from Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) to potential Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The […]
Speaker: David Dougherty Topic: The Publication of ‘The Great Disruption.' Time: Nov 8, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Biography: Our speaker today is TD Dougherty, a retired environmental scientist. He has been a CACOR member for well over a decade and is one of the administrators of this Zoom presentation series. Description: Today, […]
Speaker: Dr. Peter Carter Topic: An Intensifying Global Climate Emergency and What Must Be Done. Time: Nov 15, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: We live in the age of abrupt and accelerating collapse. According to NOAA's The Power of Greenhouse Gases, "We are committing Earth, and ourselves, to climate chaos for thousands of years." […]
Speaker: Dr. Shivam Saxena Topic: What Next on V2X in Ontario: Lessons Learned from Pilots. Time: Nov 22, 2023 Summary: Bidirectional electric vehicles (EVs) can be a vital tool in helping Canada reach its sustainability goals by mitigating emissions caused by the transportation and the electricity generation sectors. However, the lack of real-world demonstration for this technology, […]
