Presented to the CACOR Wednesday ZOOM meeting on 2020-05-06 by Dr. John Hollins, past Chair, Board of Directors.
COVID-19 may sport the thinnest silver lining: a cleaner climate
There is evidence of declining carbon emissions and improved air quality as societies lockdown. Experts say potential stimulus funding could present an opportunity to perpetuate these changes. As the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic sweeps across cities, causing closures and suspensions of services, climate experts say it could sport a silver lining of reduced carbon emissions and […]
Lessons from the CACOR Pathways Study
The straight goods, not the sunny ways John Hollins, 2020 March 6 2030 The likelihood that Canada as a country will meet the commitment that it made in Paris in 2015 to reduce emissions by 30% between 2005 and 2030 is vanishingly small. The earliest politically and practically feasible year may be 2050. Large differences […]
Renewable Energy Could Power the World by 2050
“This is the consensus of 47 peer-reviewed research papers from 13 independent groups with a total of 91 authors that have been brought together by Stanford University in California. Some of the papers take a broad sweep across the world, adding together the potential for each technology to see if individual countries or whole regions could survive […]
Gordon and Art chat on DO SOMETHING
On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 12:27 PM Gordon Kubanek wrote (into a CACOR Google Group): Hello CACOR friends, I can see that the sense that we must DO something is building among us. Here is a thought, which I am sure you have heard before, but with a personal story to add credibility. 10+ […]