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CACOR Annual General Meeting on May 25, 2016, 8:30 a.m. to 11:30, will be held in the main ground floor dining room of the Royal Ottawa Golf Club*. The Club is located at 1405 Chemin Aylmer in Gatineau, Québec, telephone: 819-777-3866. The Club is wheelchair accessible with an elevator. Directions: From Ottawa, proceed north across […]
Why The Limits to Growth was right and what we need to do now Graeme Maxton is the Secretary General of the Club of Rome A trenchant critic of modern economic thinking, he is the co-author (with Jorgen Randers) of Reinventing Prosperity, Managing economic growth to reduce unemployment, inequality and climate change, (Greystone, October 2016). The […]
You are invited to presentation #43 of the Canadian Club of Rome Zoom series. Topic: The Politics of the Climate Crisis Time: Mar 17, 2021 01:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada Speaker: Dr. Gerald Kutney Summary: The Politics of the Climate Crisis – The science of climate change was far enough advanced that governments should […]
Topic: Dr. Jack Alpert | Imagining a Sustainable Civilization | CACOR Zoom Meeting Time: Feb 16, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) https://youtu.be/XsspZa5aVAE Edited CHAT record... Bio: Dr. Jack Alpert is director of Stanford Knowledge Integration Lab, a Lab which he started in 1978 at Stanford University. In 1992, the Lab left Stanford and became a […]
Topic: Tzeporah Berman | International Cooperation to Align Fossil Fuel Production with Paris Goals: A Bold New Idea Time: Feb 23, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Biography: Tzeporah Berman is the International Program Director at Stand.earth and the Chair of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Committee. She is an Adjunct Professor at […]
Topic: Dr. Raymond Murphy | The Accelerating Treadmill of Fossil-Fuelled Practices and Assessing What to Do about It. Time: Mar 2, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: The natural sciences have definitively documented that contemporary climate change has been caused by humans, and don’t shy away from revealing the depth of the […]
Topic: Peter MacKinnon “Smart Cities: What are they? Time: Mar 9, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Abstract: Cities are the nexus of human activity. They have been the transforming centres of human habitation for milenia. Today cities are undergoing fundamental changes being enabled by advanced information and communications technologies. The world is moving from Transactional Cities to Smart […]
Topic: "Why isn't the Canadian Environmental Protection Act working, and how can it be made relevant in the 2020s and beyond? Speakers: Dr. Meg Sears and David McRobert Time: Mar 16, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Scientist Meg Sears and lawyer David McRobert will discuss translation of what science tells us is necessary […]
Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Purdy Topic: Health Impacts of Climate Change. Time: Mar 23, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) SUMMARY: Climate change is having a significant effect on human health here in Canada and around the world. Unfortunately, as climate change worsens, we will see more impacts on health. This will have a […]
Speaker: Darrin Qualman Topic: Climate, farms, food, emissions, and solutions. Time: Mar 30, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Darrin Qualman National Farmers Union Director of Climate Crisis Policy & Action NFU Main Office: 2717 Wentz Ave., Saskatoon, SK S7K 4B6 (306) 652-9465 Summary: Darrin Qualman will explain the sources of greenhouse gas emission […]
You are invited to a scheduled CACOR Zoom meeting. Speaker: Dr. Sailesh Rao Topic: Climate Healers: Food is Climate (Cow in the Room). Time: Apr 6, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87857274169?pwd=ZDYyMUlJWnZhWllERW91T09NZHBadz09 Meeting ID: 878 5727 4169 Passcode: 156408 Summary: This talk presents a systems engineering analysis of climate […]
