The concept of sustainable development demands that we move beyond compartmentalization and outmoded patterns to draw the very best of our intellectual and moral resources from every field of endeavour. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Physician and First female Prime Minister of Norway The members of CaCOR span a wide range of academic backgrounds and experience; please […]
Continuing conundrum
The real nub of the problem is how do you continue to seek better solutions that reduce the environmental burden without reducing your capacity to create the capital and wealth that allows you to do it. Angus Bruneau, V.P. Energy Council of Canada, Telegraph Journal (St. John), 1994 June 14 How do we graciously choose […]
Jim McNeill, pioneer sustainable development
Many of our problems stem from the way that we have traditionally organized our institutions. The world’s economy is totally interlocked with the earth’s ecology, but our institutions are not. … The most urgent task is to make our central economic, trade, and sectoral agencies directly responsible and accountable for ensuring that their policies – […]
Agreement with CMOS
David Pollock, Chair CACOR Board of Directors, invites members to participate in this important outreach. The Canadian Club of Rome (CACOR) and the Ottawa Centre of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) signed a letter of understanding in 2015 to foster our common interests. The primary benefit to date has been the arrangement for […]
Free Heating and Cooling from Lake Water
Giant Canadian construction project incorporates low carbon heating and cooling: Don Pittis The Well rising on the old Globe and Mail site digs for more green innovations CBC News · Posted: Jan 27, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 27 Construction workers are dwarfed by the enormous underground reservoir at The Well in downtown Toronto […]