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Speaker: Dr. Delon Omrow Topic: Crimes Against the Planet? Time: Jul 20, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Competing criminological perspectives weigh in on how to define crimes against the environment. The strict legalist approach adopts a very rigid definition, while the social legalist perspective embraces a more holistic approach to documenting various […]
Speaker: Dr. Art Hunter Topic: The Energy Transition: How Microgrids Can Help Rebuild Ontario's Power Grid and Electrify Everything. Time: Jul 27, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Grid modernization and expanded use of renewable energy resources, like solar and wind, lead to the need to electrify everything to reduce consumption of fossil […]
Speaker: Julian Cribb Topic: Our Existential Crisis: what is to be done? Time: Aug 3, 2022 19:00 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Humanity’s capacity to inflict mass harm on itself has been accelerating since the mid-21st Century and is now approaching a state where it can wreck civilization and, potentially, eliminate our species. Julian Cribb explores […]
Topic: Improving Environmental Protection and Public Health: opportunities during Canadian legal and policy reform Speakers: Dr. Richard van der Jagt and Dr. Meg Sears Time: Aug 10, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: A medical perspective on health risks of environmental toxins and costs to the Canadian taxpayer illustrates the urgent need to […]
You are invited you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: CACOR 2022 Annual General Meeting Time: Sep 26, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88479621148?pwd=dkV2ZWpEUGpJUjlneXFHMSsyT1NrZz09 Meeting ID: 884 7962 1148 Passcode: 289662
Speaker: Andrew Gaines Topic: Introducing a New Paradigm for Social Change. Time: Aug 31, 2022 19:00 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: This webinar will induce ways of thinking that have the potential to make the environmental-progressive movement orders of magnitude more influential. There are four core ideas: Improving brain functioning. Improving emotional functioning. Aligning to an […]
Speaker: Dr. John Thor Arnason Topic: The Future of Medicinal Biodiversity: Plants and Other Organisms. Time: Sep 7, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Plants, marine organisms, bacteria and other species have provided or inspired the development of many medicines. Medicinal organisms are subject to the major threats to all biodiversity including habitat loss, climate change and […]
Topic: The Value Crisis – Re-visioning What We Know Speaker: Andrew Welch Time: Sep 14, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: The amount of intellect and information represented by CACOR and its guest speakers is huge. Are the problems that we wrestle with really so intractable? Or are some of the answers hiding in […]
Speaker: Julian Cribb Topic: The Age of Renewable Food. How we can feed everyone, bring peace, and end extinction. Time: Sept 21, 2022 19:00 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: The world food supply is balanced on a knife edge—growing less and less secure as our numbers and demands increase. The climate in which agriculture […]
Speaker: Dr. Karen Shragg Topic: Sprawling Over America: Why the Endangered Species Act Isn't Enough. Time: Sep 28, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Dr. Karen Shragg will illuminate the missing piece for why wildlife is losing the battle of survival, our growth and takeover of the landscape. Sprawl is now documented to be related to […]
Speaker: Dr. Jack Alpert Topic: A non-injury producing civilization (part 2) of three parts. Time: Oct 5, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Our civilization is not viable. It is headed for collapse. It's going to injure most of the people and much of the environment living this century. Governments, religions, economies cannot find or […]
Speaker: Dr. Nicole Morgan Topic: Famine as a Mass Destruction Weapon Time: Oct 12, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Dr Morgan will present an update of a previous CACOR conference held on October 16th 2018 “Food and Fat one of our first Forms of Energy”. She will re-cast her forecast within […]
Speaker: John Meyer Topic: Pivoting on Climate and Depletion by Substituting Progress for Growth Time: Oct 19, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Business-as-usual will not see us through the threats which even now are beginning to seep under our front door. We need new goals and metrics. Above all, we need a […]
Speaker: Dr Charlie Hall Topic: How much oil remains for the world to produce? Comparing assessment methods, and separating fact from fiction Time: Oct 26, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: This paper assesses how much oil remains to be produced, and whether this poses a significant constraint to global development. We describe […]
