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A CACOR Live meeting. Topic: A Disturbing and Provocative Viewpoint on Breaking through the Fog of Unreality Speaker: James Howard Kunstler Time: 10 July 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Kunstler takes you on a deep dive through the broken consensus about reality now be-setting the nations of Western Civilization in the essential […]
A scheduled CACOR Live meeting. Topic: Keep Our Counties Great: Implementing Limits to Growth at the Local Level. Speaker: Dave Rollo Time: 17 July 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Economic growth requires ever expanding materials and energy throughput that is unsustainable, and at odds with planetary biophysical limits. Dave will describe the aim of CASSE's Keep Our […]
Topic: Thermal Networks and Nuclear Energy – a pathway to decarbonizing building heating Speaker: Dr. Robert Walker Time: 24 July 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: In Canada, about as much energy is used to heat buildings as is delivered as electricity for all purposes. Current plans for achieving net-zero buildings include retrofitting the millions […]
A CACOR Live presentation Speaker: Ruben Nelson Topic: Permacrisis, Polycrisis, Metacrisis: An attempt to Clarify the Human Problematique – Just what are we in for? Time: Jul 31, 2024 01:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Confused and inadequate conceptualizations lead to wrong-headed understandings. Confused and wrongheaded understandings lead to well intended prescriptions which often […]
Speaker: Raymond Leury Subject: Part 3: Do we have the Materials for a Green Transition? Time: Aug 7, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Climate change is an existential threat. Temperature records keep falling, climate emergencies are declared, yet we don’t seem to be making much progress in addressing the threat. How much […]
Speaker: David Hutton Subject: Whistleblower Protection and Global Warming Time: Aug 28, 2024 Summary: The industries most responsible for global warming are engaged in sophisticated, well-funded efforts to mislead the public, in order to boost their profits by undermining efforts to combat climate change. Whistleblowers – insiders who witness such deceptions and help expose […]
Speaker: Dr. Art Hunter Subject: Project Payback. Financial benefits of a microgrid as part of a virtual power plant Time: 4 Sept 2024 13:30 Eastern Standard Time (US and Canada) Summary: Home rooftop solar panels and home batteries provide a microgrid owner with energy independence from grid failures. Recently the Ontario Energy board approved Ultra-Low […]
Speaker: Dr. David Harries Subject: WHENCE & WHITHER CANADA’S SOVEREIGNTY? Time: 11 Sept 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: The abysmal state of Canada’s national security was fully exposed for the first time in an Ottawa speech in November 2022. This ‘inflexion point’ was sharpened in 2023 by a host of events confirming […]
Speaker: Maude Barlow Subject: Facing the Global Water Crisis with Knowledge and Hope Time: 18 Sept 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: The planet is facing a twin water crisis - human and ecological. Canada is not exempt from this crisis despite our “myth of abundance” that has kept us from facing our own situation. […]
Speaker: Dr. Trevor Hancock Subject: The Wellbeing Society: A response to declining planetary health and increasing inequality Time: 25 Sept 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: We have surpassed the limits to growth, crossing six of nine planetary boundaries and exceeding the Earth’s biocapacity five-fold in Canada. Our current economic system, and the core values […]
