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Stay Informed

CACOR's weekly newsletter
June 25, 2022
Welcome to Stay Informed, CACOR's weekly newsletter. It contains all the latest updates to the CACOR Website. Signup and previous weekly newsletters are available here.

There is a new section on the Home Page "Hoffman Hall of Honour" Where CACOR shall honour those that make noteworthy contributions to the CACOR Mission. Robert Hoffman is the first. The eligibility, selection process and frequency of update is still under development but it is available for viewing.
Hoffman Hall of Honour - Canadian Association for the Club of Rome (canadiancor.com)

The complete list of the CACOR Zoom series from
presentation #1 on 2020-04-15
to
presentation # 115 on 2022-09-21
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Latest Presentation

Ruben Nelson | Transcending Our MTI Form of Civilization: Exploring the New Core Work of the 21st Century | CACOR 2022-06-22

Ruben Nelson | Transcending Our MTI Form of Civilization: Exploring the New Core Work of the 21st Century | CACOR 2022-06-22

Speaker: Ruben Nelson Topic:  Transcending Our MTI Form of Civilization: Exploring the New Core Work of the 21st Century. Time: Jun 22, 2022 Summary: I will start where Bill Rees often finishes:  “We must transcend techno-modernism and catalyze a personal-to-civilization-level transformation to a way of being on Earth in which humans can live spiritually satisfying, economically secure lives more equitably within the …

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Upcoming Events

Raymond Leury | Vehicle to Grid Integration--A Great Solution to Store Renewable Energy | 2022-07-29

Raymond Leury | Vehicle to Grid Integration--A Great Solution to Store Renewable Energy | 2022-07-29

You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Raymond Leury Topic: Vehicle to Grid Integration--A Great Solution to Store Renewable Energy Time: Jun 29, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84269490518?pwd=bVIzU04zQ0JHL3dPRGwzKzliTzh1UT09 Meeting ID: 842 6949 0518 Passcode: 323882   Summary: As the number of EVs increases, they represent a unique challenge to integrate them into …

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Latest Articles

Saving the World and your Sanity through Co-housing and Multi-generational living

Saving the World and your Sanity through Co-housing and Multi-generational living Authentic Belonging means you can finally become who you really are Who are you? Who am I? Are you living an authentic life? Am I? The honest answer: probably not. Have you sold your soul to the Devil to achieve material “success”? Have I? The honest answer: probably yes. …

Categories: Articles, What are you doing

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Saving the World and your Sanity through Co-housing and Multi-generational living

Remember when powering your house with your vehicle was a wild idea?

Isometric design concept illustration: house with solar panels and electric car
A few years ago, the thought of using the batteries in electric vehicles (EVs) to provide vehicle-to-grid (V2G), vehicle-to-microgrid or vehicle-to-home power was just an idea, maybe even a wild idea. Now these programs are inching toward reality, with Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), Snohomish Public Utility District (PUD), Consolidated Edison (Con Edison), Portland General Electric (PGE) and others moving …

Categories: Articles, Solutions

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Managing without growth

The world’s economies are encountering biophysical limits that are showing up in many ways, already disastrous for species such as the Pinta Island Tortoise, the Eastern Cougar, the Pyrenean Ibex, the Formosa Clouded Leopard, the Vietnamese Rhinoceros, the Christmas Island Pipistrelle, the Chinese Paddlefish, the Alaotra Grebe, the Long Jaw Tristamella, the Yangtze River Dolphin, the Black-Faced Honeycreeper, the Golden …

Categories: Articles, Quotes

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Managing without growth

World Biodiversity Summit Moved to Montreal

World Biodiversity Summit Moved to Montreal
COP15: UN biodiversity summit moved from China to Canada Published10 hours ago Share IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES Image caption, The vision is to live in harmony with nature by 2050 Major UN talks aimed at striking a deal on safeguarding nature have been moved from China to Canada. The COP15 UN Biodiversity Conference began as virtual, online talks in October last …

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New Zealand introduces climate change law for financial firms in world first

New Zealand has become the first country to introduce a law that will require banks, insurers and investment managers to report the impacts of climate change on their business, minister for climate change James Shaw said on Tuesday. All banks with total assets of more than NZ$1 billion ($703 million), insurers with more than NZ$1 billion in total assets under …

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Wrinkled Green Appearance of Hills and Mountains along the coastline of Northland, New Zealand

Those 3% of scientific papers that deny climate change? A review found them all flawed

A powerful denial concept, man with his head in the sand.
By Katherine Ellen Foley It’s often said that of all the published scientific research on climate change, 97% of the papers conclude that global warming is real, problematic for the planet, and has been exacerbated by human activity. But what about those 3% of papers that reach contrary conclusions? Some skeptics have suggested that the authors of studies indicating that climate …

Categories: Articles, Climate

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Laying Waste to Planet Earth—From CACOR Archives

In this one-page essay, Ken Hammond reminded us we are on a beautiful blue ball, but we're putting it in peril with cheap energy, production and use of which facilitates not just our works but destruction and pollution.  We need better ways to access energy, and to use our energy more wisely.  Despite the scale of the problem, we must …

Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers

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How well are we doing?

How well are we doing?
Key indicators of how humans are changing the Earth: Sea level, species, carbon dioxide, sea ice, population, daily temperature extremes, annual climate change performance by country, air pollution, temperature records, climate change indicators, top ten emitters, historic emissions, electric vehicles.

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Breaking News

Damage caused by climate change could overwhelm NCC, Ottawa-Gatineau’s biggest landowner

A Crown corporation that is Ottawa-Gatineau’s largest landowner expects climate-induced damage to its properties to “increase exponentially, as will complaints” and warns it might not be able to keep up with repairs. In an assessment of its exposure to risks and vulnerabilities from climate change released Thursday, the National Capital Commission said it’s already deferring maintenance owing to budget constraints …

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Industria Power Awarded Construction Contract for Eight Microgrids with the City of San Diego

The City of San Diego via Gridscape Solutions awarded Industria Power a construction contract for eight microgrids, saving an estimated $6 million over 25 years in avoided energy costs. Construction is moving out of engineering into mobilization and is set to conclude in December 2022. The company expects to deploy and operate over 35 microgrids in California over the next 12 months.

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Recording: "Limits to Growth at 50: Where Do We Go from Here?"

We had a penetrating and inspiring conversation today with Club of Rome co-President Mamphela Ramphele and Vice President Carlos Alvarez Pereira. Our plan was to explore how we can use the lessons of the past to inform effective strategies to intervene and redirect our civilization’s headlong rush to the precipice—and I feel we did just that!

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How Furniture is Made from Recycled Plastic | Made Here | Popular Mechanics

In the latest episode of the Popular Mechanics series “MADE HERE,” we tour the factory for POLYWOOD, a company that takes recycled plastic (mostly milk jugs), turns it into “lumber,” and uses it to fashion outdoor furniture.

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Why This Fusion Tech May Be a Geothermal Energy Breakthrough

Why Fusion is the Key to the Future of Geothermal Energy. Geothermal energy has the potential to power the world. However, it hasn’t been the hottest renewable energy option because drilling deep enough into the earth is difficult and costly. A startup has recently unearthed a solution: A gyrotron heat ray to melt rocks (sort of). This is a well-established …

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The Power Grid: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses the current state of the nation’s power grid, why it needs fixing, and, of course, how fun balloons are.

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Lifetime carbon emissions of renewables vs fossil fuel. Problem or solution?

Just Have a Think Renewable energy sources are playing an increasingly important role in electricity girds all over the world. They emit negligible greenhouse gas emissions at the point of use. But is that the whole story? How do lifetime emissions from manufacture, transport and disposal of renewables stack up against fossil fuels?

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Why This Accidental Battery Breakthrough Matters

Exploring why an accidental discovery may have unlocked the holy grail in battery research: an energy dense, long lasting, and safe battery. Lithium sulfur batteries may be the holy grail of energy storage. Besides fueling electric vehicles (EVs) adoption, they could turbocharge the integration of renewable energy into our electric grid. However, a technical fault has been holding back their …

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Vehicle to Grid bidirectional power transfer ISO 15118-20 (2022) Standard. 

ISO 15118-20:2022 This document specifies the communication between the electric vehicle (EV), including battery electric vehicle (BEV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), and the electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE). The application layer messages defined in this document are designed to support the electricity power transfer between an EV and an EVSE. This document defines the communication messages and sequence …

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VEHICLE-TO-GRID (V2G) IS A TECHNOLOGY THAT HAS THE POWER TO TRANSFORM THE ENERGY SYSTEM.

Globally there will be 140-240 million electric vehicles by 2030. This means that we'll have at least 140 million tiny energy storages on wheels with an aggregated storage capacity of 7 TWh.

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