Summary: Over the last 15 years, the energy transition has accelerated dramatically across generation, storage, and electric vehicles. However, public perception of renewable energy lags significantly behind these engineering realities. […]
CACOR Live | Charles A. S. Hall and Timothy McWhirter | Energy and Evolution: The Systems Approach
Summary: This talk summarizes a book project that seeks to provide a systemic reconstruction of H.T. Odum’s foundational framework that integrates the various optimality principles that have emerged from the […]
CACOR Live | James Thornton | Why is there Life?
Summary: Theoretical and experimental research on the origins of life focus on how life evolved. A second order question currently being explored is: Why is there life? Exploring the mechanisms […]
CACOR Live | Geoff Strong | Science in Scripture and Today’s Climate Crisis
Summary: This talk (and the book) examines scientific statements embedded in biblical text, which could help us improve contemporary thinking on environmental processes and the mitigation of the climate crisis. […]
CACOR Live | Mitchell Beer | An Energy Transition In Real Time: How Canada’s Fossil Fuel Exports Could Collapse, and Why Energy Modelling Missed the Memo
Summary: The mounting alarm over Canada’s fossil fuel agenda assumes there will be long-term demand for the oil and gas the Carney government seems so determined to export. That was […]