Raymond Leury on GHG Trends Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-01-04 | Our speaker today is Raymond Leury, who has always been interested in science & environmental issues. Ten years ago he bought his first EV, which led him to become President of the Electric Vehicle Council of Ottawa (EVCO). Now retired from a long IT career, Raymond spends much of his time researching and advocating for EVs of all sizes from light duty to medium and heavy-duty vehicles. This led to a successful campaign to get OC Transpo to transition to e-buses.DESCRIPTION: Climate change is an existential threat. Temperature records keep falling, climate emergencies are declared, yet we don’t seem to be making much progress in addressing the threat. How much progress have we made? There is no doubt that we are going to continue to see average temperatures increase for some time. What are our prospects for keeping those increases low enough so that we can avoid total societal collapse and a return to the stone age? Are we too late? The most recent data coupled with some analysis and careful forecasting shows that there are some paths that would substantially limit temperature increases and create conditions for a “soft landing.” For those paths to be realized, we need all hands on deck and unprecedented cooperation because there is not a minute to waste.
Post Helene Message #shorts Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-10-16 | Hurricane Helene 2024 - extent of damage in rapid sequence of images.
CACOR Live Debate Canada is Prepared for the 21st Century Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-10-16 | Description: This will be an experiment with a different format for CACOR Live. Two members will debate the pros and cons of the chosen topic. Tom will argue FOR and David will argue AGAINST the proposal that "Canada is Prepared for the 21st Century". Our aim is to get people to think beyond their normal patterns.Biography: Tom Dougherty is a retired environmental scientist. In retirement he has been an avid reader and sometime author of climate fiction novels (under the pen name Grey Marcuse) and a climate advice book. He has been a CACOR member for well over a decade and is one of the administrators of this Zoom presentation series. // Dr. David Harries, a nuclear engineer, former senior military officer, consultant on personal and corporate security, & advisor & professor in heavy engineering, national development, humanitarian aid, post-conflict & post-disaster response & recovery, & in executive development in strategic foresight. He is a Principal of the Security & Sustainability Guide, a Fellow of the World Academy of Art & Science, Foresight Lead atIdeaconnector.net, & Associate/former Chair (2013-17) of Canadian Pugwash.
Ruben Nelson Do you see what I see Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-10-09 | Do you see what I see?Test your capacity for deep listening.We had a last minute cancellation of the speaker scheduled for Wednesday, October 9th. Rather than face dead air, we are taking it as an opportunity to try something new. Join us this coming Wednesday, 9 October, at 1:30 EDT. us02web.zoom.us/j/86473930222?pwd=ckFPN2swMDhBVERuek1uWTNkSEdGdz09Here is what we will do.First, the process will be explained and the questions you will be asked to answer will be given to you.Second we will watch a 17 minute Frankly by Nate Hagens, keeping the questions in mind. The Superorganism and the Self | The Great SimplificationThird, we will break into groups of three for 35 minutes – time for each to share their own answers to the questions and for a general exploration of what has been seen and said.Fourth, we will gather as a group to share some of what has been seen, said and learned.Finally, we will comment on the process, whether it is worth repeating and how it can be improved.We have three purposes in mind:To listen together to Nate’s personal observations on his work, our world and his own learning journey. He is never trivial. If you do not know him, this will be an interesting introduction.To test our own capacity for deep listening.To engage in our own learning.The session will be hosted by Ruben Nelson.Do join us as we in CACOR try something new.
International Indigenous Voices On Climate Change Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-10-07 | Nature is not a resource. We are part of the universe, and our local community is Earth. We must live within community capacities to support us and not borrow from future generations. The Earth is our brother and needs great respect. Reduce consumption of everything. Reduce our standard of living in the sake of survival.
Brian Czech CACOR Live Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-10-02 | Summary:The Steady State Economy Act (SSEA) is CASSE’s vision for macroeconomic policy in the United States and other overly developed economies. First envisioned as a Full and Sustainable Employment Act, the SSEA would supersede the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978, the antiquated central economic policy of the United States. The SSEA is developed by CASSE over time with monthly “feeder bills.” Taken together, the feeder bills will comprise the full SSEA. Meanwhile, each feeder bill is introduced with an article in the Steady State Herald.Biography:Brian Czech, Ph.D., is the executive director of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, which he founded in 2003. From 1999-2017, Czech served in the headquarters of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. During most of that time (2001-2015), he was also a visiting professor at Virginia Tech. Czech is the author of four books, the latest being Gag-Ordered No More: The 800-Pound Gorilla in the U.S. Government.
Indigenous Voices Of Canada Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-09-28 | The land and water are our life. Canadian Indigenous voices on climate change.
Trevor Hancock on The Wellbeing Society. Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-09-25 | Description: We have surpassed the limits to growth, crossing 6 of 9 planetary boundaries & exceeding the Earth’s biocapacity 5 x in Canada. Our current economic system, & the core values that underpin it, is not fit for purpose in the 21st century: not only is it depleting natural capital & driving declining planetary health, it is also depleting social capital & driving deepening inequality. The World Health Organization has called for the creation of sustainable well-being societies committed to equitable health now & for future generations without breaching ecological limits. How might this look?Biography: Dr. Trevor Hancock is a public health physician & health promotion consultant. He retired in 2018 from his position as Professor & Senior Scholar (School of Public Health & Social Policy, U Victoria). He is a founder of the global Healthy Cities & Communities movement, co-founded both the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment & the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care, & was the 1st leader of the Green Party of Canada. His recent focus has been the combination of his main interests: the relationship between human health & the natural environment (planetary health); & linking the healthy & sustainable community approaches through the concept of a 'One Planet' region.
Maude Barlow on Facing the Global Water Crisis with Knowledge and Hope. Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-09-18 | Description: The planet is facing a twin water crisis--human & ecological. Canada is not exempt from this crisis despite our “myth of abundance” that has kept us from facing our own situation. Maude will talk about the need to “think blue” & look at the climate crisis from a water perspective. She will share some hard facts but will also share what she calls “wise hope”--the knowledge that armed with the facts, we can & must take meaningful action.Biography: Maude Barlow is a Canadian activist & author. She has written many reports & 20 books. She chairs the board of Washington-based Food & Water Watch, is founder of the Blue Planet Project, & co-founded the Council of Canadians. She is the recipient of 17 honorary doctorates & many awards, including the 2005 Right Livelihood Award (known as the “Alternative Nobel”) In 2008/2009. She served as Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the UN General Assembly, & was a leader in the campaign to have water recognized as a human right by the UN. She is the creator of the Blue Communities project. There are 25 M people living in official Blue Community towns & cities around the world.
David Harries on Whence and Whither Canada’s Sovereignty Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-09-12 | Description: The abysmal state of Canada’s national security was fully exposed for the first time in an Ottawa speech in November 2022. This ‘inflexion point’ was sharpened in 2023 by a host of events confirming the sorry state of Canada's will, ways and means to protect its sovereignty. The presentation shows major reasons for the situation, and the consequences in place and foreseeable. It will argue that, without major, unprecedented changes to government and DND/CF narratives, the future for Canada’s sovereignty can only worsen. Suggestions of changes are offered.Biography: Dr. David Harries, a nuclear engineer, former senior military officer, consultant on personal and corporate security, and advisor and professor in heavy engineering, national development, humanitarian aid, post-conflictand post-disaster response and recovery, and in executive development in strategic foresight. He is a Principal of the Security and Sustainability Guide, a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, Foresight Lead atIdeaconnector.net, and Associate/former Chair (2013-17) of Canadian Pugwash.
Overshoot and degrowth from CACOR Live speakers Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-09-11 | In 5 min 47 Seconds, review the main points of three CACOR Live speakers on population, overshoot and degrowth with a new strong coupling with nature and indigenous culture.
Project Payback Art Hunter to CACOR Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-09-05 | Summary:Home rooftop solar panels and home batteries provide a microgrid owner with energy independence from grid failures. Recently the Ontario Energy board approved Ultra-Low Overnight electricity rates as when utilized they financially benefit the microgrid owner, grid managers and all grid customers. Payback to the homeowner of the invested capital is demonstrated as being rapid with a side benefit of energy credit savings reducing year-round billings from the utility. Save monthly operational money, buy-back investment dollars, and reduce your home carbon footprint simultaneously.Biography:Art Hunter designs, operates and is constantly modernizing the Manotick Microgrid for the social and financial benefits explained in the presentation material. Survival and mitigation of consumption overshoot, and the climate catastrophe are top priorities. The Manotick Microgrid consists of rooftop solar arrays, home battery storage, a ground source heat pump, two electric Vehicles and a comprehensive command and control system for measurement and data processing driving appropriate actuators. He has extensive experience in conducting research within universities, working with many companies as a consultant and as a researcher at the National Research Council of Canada including being the Canadian project manager for NASA’s Space Shuttle’s Canadarm. He holds degrees from the Royal Military College (Hon B.Eng.) and from the University of London, Imperial College (Ph.D. hypersonic aerodynamics). He is very active in the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome.
Project Payback Video Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-08-30 | Summary in 3 minutes. Now, go get all the details in the 90-minute presentation (available on 4 September) with Q&A.
David Hutton on Whistleblower Protection and Global Warming Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-08-28 | Summary:The industries most responsible for global warming are engaged in sophisticated, well-funded efforts to mislead the public, in order to boost their profits by undermining efforts to combat climate change. Whistleblowers – insiders who witness such deceptions and help expose them – can be a powerful force in the ongoing battle to protect our planet’s ecosystem. Unlike our peers, Canada has bucked international trends by failing to enact meaningful whistleblower protections, federally or provincially. The Centre for Free Expression continues to advocate for positive change.Biography:David Hutton is a committed advocate for whistleblower protection as a means of safeguarding the public interest and the integrity of our institutions and has served in this role since 2005. In 2022 he received the Canadian Integrity Award for his work supporting whistleblowers and advocating for stronger whistleblower protection in Canada. David is a former management consultant, recognized internationally as an expert in management systems and organizational change, and the author of two authoritative books on quality management that have been translated, published and distributed on four continents.
Canadian Charter of Rights and Responsibilities Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-08-23 | Prepared by and released on January 20, 2022 by The Canadian Association for the Club of Rome (CACOR). A 5-minute view.
IPCC AR6 EarthViews by CACOR #short Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-08-14 | Quick summary of the IPCC Assessment Report 6 in 54 seconds
Planetary boundaries CACOR #short Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-08-09 | Promotional video for the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome. 45 seconds long.
Raymond Leury on Whether We Have Enough Materials for a Green Transition. Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-08-07 | Description: Climate change is an existential threat. Temperature records keep falling, climate emergencies are declared, yet we don’t seem to be making much progress in addressing the threat. How much progress have we made? There is no doubt that we are going to continue to see average temperatures increase for some time. What are our prospects for keeping those increases low enough so that we can avoid total societal collapse and a return to the stone age? Are we too late? The most recent data coupled with some analysis and careful forecasting shows that there are some paths that would substantially limit temperature increases and create conditions for a “soft landing.” For those paths to be realized, we need all hands-on deck and unprecedented cooperation because there is not a minute to waste.Biography: Raymond Leury, who has always been interested in science & environmental issues. Ten years ago, he bought his first EV, which led him to become President of the Electric Vehicle Council of Ottawa (EVCO). Now retired from a long IT career, Raymond spends much of his time researching and advocating for EVs of all sizes from light duty to medium and heavy-duty vehicles. This led to a successful campaign to get OC Transpo to transition to e-buses.
Ruben Nelson polycrisis explained Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-08-01 | Confused and inadequate conceptualizations lead to wrong-headed understandings. Confused and wrongheaded understandings lead to well intended prescriptions which often make things worse.Since our situation as a species on Earth is worse today than when CACOR was formed, it is not unreasonable to explore the possibility that as Modern Techno-Industrial (MTI) cultures we have been operating on the basis of confused and inadequate conceptualizations of the mess of living, complex messes we are in, a.k.a. “the human problematique.”It is time to get clear about the root sources and nature of our troubles. My intention is to do so in this presentation.
Dr. Bob Walker on Thermal Networks. Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-07-25 | Description: In Canada, as much energy is used to heat buildings as is used for electricity. Current plans for achieving net-zero buildings include retrofitting millions of buildings with electric heat pumps. While work is underway to mitigate the risks for building-electrification, there’s another complementary pathway––Thermal Networks as large-scale utilities. An opportunity for synergies between electricity grids & TNs occurs when they share non-emitting Combined Heat & Power generators. Among the largest of clean CHP generators is nuclear energy. Canada intends to increase its nuclear energy capacity by 2050. Harnessing the CHP capabilities of nuclear energy to also service TNs would reduce the need for additional clean heat generation while contributing to grid modernization that enables greater use of variable renewables.Biography: Dr. Robert Walker is a retired public sector scientist & science executive who acts now as an independent advisor. Past leadership roles have included President & CEO of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited & Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, ADM (S&T) at National Defence, & CEO of Defence R&D Canada. He is presently a Senior Fellow at the U Ottawa’s Institute for Science, Society, and Policy, and a member of McMaster U’s Board of Governors.
Part 1 -James Kunstlers Disturbing & Provocative Viewpoint on Breaking through the Fog of Unreality Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-07-21 | [After much consideration, with the agreement of the speaker, CACOR is publishing this presentation under the title A Disturbing and Provocative Viewpoint on Breaking through the Fog of Unreality. Here is the Wikipedia page on Mr. Kunstler. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Howard_KunstlerViewers are reminded that Mr. Kunstler's views are controversial. Further, the speaker's views may not reflect those of CACOR. Ed.]Description: This is a deep dive through the broken consensus about reality now besetting the nations of Western Civilization in the essential matters of economy, politics, and culture. We have a lot of repair work to do in our own minds before we can coherently face the challenges to everyday life coming at us. The speaker lays out the problems with precision and then addresses the intelligent responses to them. He emphasizes the physical arrangement of life on the terrain of North America: the changes we apt to see in the patterns of cities, suburbs, small towns, and the rural landscape. Biography: James Howard Kunstler is the author of The Long Emergency and The Geography of Nowhere. Two other non-fiction titles in that series are Home From Nowhere and The City in Mind. He’s also the author of many novels, including World Made By Hand and three sequels. His shorter work has appeared in many periodicals. He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, RPI, U Virginia & many colleges, & has appeared before many professional organizations (e.g., AIA , APA, & the National Trust for Historic Preservation).
Part 2 -James Kunstlers Disturbing & Provocative Viewpoint on Breaking through the Fog of Unreality Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-07-21 | [This second recording contains more of our question and answer period. Viewers are reminded that Mr. Kunstler's views are controversial. Further, the speaker's views may not reflect those of CACOR. Ed.]Description: This is a deep dive through the broken consensus about reality now besetting the nations of Western Civilization in the essential matters of economy, politics, and culture. We have a lot of repair work to do in our own minds before we can coherently face the challenges to everyday life coming at us. The speaker lays out the problems with precision and then addresses the intelligent responses to them. He emphasizes the physical arrangement of life on the terrain of North America: the changes we apt to see in the patterns of cities, suburbs, small towns, and the rural landscape. Biography: James Howard Kunstler is the author of The Long Emergency and The Geography of Nowhere. Two other non-fiction titles in that series are Home From Nowhere and The City in Mind. He’s also the author of many novels, including World Made By Hand and three sequels. His shorter work has appeared in many periodicals. He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, RPI, U Virginia & many colleges, & has appeared before many professional organizations (e.g., AIA , APA, & the National Trust for Historic Preservation).
Our Future as stated by famous Teenagers - #shorts Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-07-18 | A moving plea by two famous teenaged girls to do something about Climate change.
Dave Rollo on how to Keep Our Counties Great: Implementing Limits to Growth at the Local Level. Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-07-17 | Description: Economic growth requires ever expanding materials and energy throughput that is unsustainable, and at odds with planetary biophysical limits. Our speaker will describe the aim of CASSE’s Keep Our Counties Great initiative, and how local communities can opt out of the growth paradigm. A key blueprint for communities is their Comprehensive Plan that is the means to incorporate protection of a county's biocapacity—its ecological productivity—including the ecological services needed for human sustenance.Biography: Dave Rollo is a Policy Specialist at the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE) focused on the Keep Our Counties Great program. With degrees in biology and plant sciences, Dave has also served in elected office as City Councilor in Bloomington, Indiana, for 22 years. During his tenure in office, Dave spearheaded numerous sustainability initiatives, served on many boards and commissions, and participated in creating several key planning documents for his community.
#shorts Interstellar Message CACOR Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-07-06 | The Universe is our home. We live on the pale blue dot with many other life forms. Accept this reality and behave like all the other lifeforms, within nature's cycles.
Rosemary Kralik and Dr. Barry Bruce on Regenerative Ag final Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-07-04 | Agriculture, Climate, and Health: How Regenerative Agriculture and Plant-Rich Diets Could Reverse Climate Change and Improve Human Health.Rosemary Kralik was born in Egypt, moved to the UK when she was four years old, then immigrated to Canada with her mother. Her experience is in graphic art, architectural drafting, and systems design in management consulting. Inspired by Allan Nation and Joel Salatin’s ideas about regenerative agriculture, she purchased a 73-acre farm in Hemmingford, then a 722-acre farm in the Lanark Highlands, which she manages by herself.Barry Bruce grew up on a farm in Guelph, Ontario, and practiced family medicine in Carp for 48 years with a special interest in primary prevention. He started ExerFarm in 2018 to provide a venue for patients to get exercise and improve their nutrition. He also became involved with Deep Roots Food Hub, a NFP corporation with a mandate of food security and the construction of an above-ground, off-grid root cellar in 2018. The vision is “Sustainable Local Food Systems Everywhere.”
Paul Martin on Hydrogen, Hopium, and Scale Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-06-26 | Description: In this presentation, we explore the challenges of using hydrogen as a fuel in vehicles and other applications. Vast sums of money, mostly tax dollars, are being provided to fund hydrogen projects here in Canada and around the world. Costs and inefficiencies surrounding hydrogen are among the reasons hydrogen is unlikely to play any significant role in sustainable transportation and energy applications. The energy transition will take some time and effort and won’t be easy. The primary energy fallacy shows that the solutions are within our reach much more than is generally understood.Biography: Paul Martin is a Toronto-based chemical engineer with extensive experience in consulting engineering. He has about three decades worth of experience with a wide variety of chemical, energy, and materials processes, particularly with hydrogen and synthesis gas production and use. He offers consulting services in relation to process development and decarbonization to an international clientele via his company Spitfire Research. He is co-founder of the Hydrogen Science Coalition, a non-profit group of academics and retired engineers & scientists who, from a position free of financial interest, offer a science-based perspective about the role of hydrogen in the energy transition.
CACOR Critter speak Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-06-24 | Three CACOR Live speakers address human interaction with other species. Specifically, the bear, the wolf and the owl. Only 4 minutes of your time and a valuable use of those 4 minutes.Please share widely.
Nandita Bajaj on Population Denial Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-06-19 | Description: Human population has doubled in the last 50 years, growing from ~4 B in 1970 to ~8 B now. There is rising public awareness that overpopulation & rampant overconsumption are driving climate change, resource scarcity, & biodiversity collapse, yet it is a challenging issue to discuss. Here we will discuss the pervasive influence on pronatalism & human supremacy as drivers of population growth, as well as reproductive & ecological injustice, & the implications of the silencing of this discourse on the most vulnerable--nature, people, & animals.Biography: Nandita Bajaj is Executive Director of Population Balance , a US nonprofit that works to inspire narrative, behavioral, & system change that shrinks our human impact & elevates the rights & wellbeing of people, animals, & the planet. She also co-hosts The Overpopulation Podcast, a popular series that delves into the nuances of the drivers & impacts of human expansionism with expert guests. She is Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Humane Education at Antioch University, where she teaches about the combined impacts of pronatalism & human expansionism on reproductive, ecological, & intergenerational justice.
#shorts CACOR Critters of Canada Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-06-17 | Canadian mountains, lakes, animals under climate change threat.
#short CACOR species Message2024 Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-06-16 | the beauty of nature under enormous threat.
David Longworth on Preparing for Pandemics. Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-06-12 | Description: Our speaker’s major policy research interests are credit cycles, financial regulation, monetary policy, and preventing future pandemics. He is a co-author with Frank Milne of Preparing for Pandemics: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19. He is a Research Fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute.Biography: Dr. David Longworth is a retired economist with a BSc in Mathematical Statistics (1973) & an MA in Economics (1974), both from U of Alberta, & a PhD in Economics from MIT (1979). He has published in leading economic & finance journals, including the Journal of Finance. He had a 36-year career at the Bank of Canada. From 2003-10, he was a Deputy Governor there, responsible for issues related to financial stability & financial markets. From 2005-10, he was a member of the Committee on the Global Financial System & the Markets Committee, which met at the Bank for International Settlements. After retirement, he was an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University (2010-20) & a Term Adjunct Professor at the Department of Economics at Queen’s University (2011-21).
#shorts #CACOR50th CACOR SEE4 Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-06-10 | Some content on the home page of canadiancor.com
Ted Manning on Wellbeing. Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-06-05 | Description: How we define & choose values, & the way we measure what is real & important, & our metrics affect what we perceive & how we act on key issues. Ted will cover some of the work done to date on Wellbeing by CACOR, the Club of Rome, & others on the concept of wellbeing & tactics to change people's minds & get them to consider survival within the planetary system. His work on environmental planning & on integrating social & environmental values can be instructive on what works & how conflicts can be resolved.Biography: Dr. Ted Manning is President of Tourisk, which provides integrated planning for heritage sites, precious ecosystems, communities, & tourism destinations worldwide. He has worked in over 50 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, & the Americas protecting special places. His work on environmental projects in China, Latin America, & Africa has dealt with links between policy & sustainable practical solutions. He is a full Member of the International Club of Rome & 2023-24 Chair of CACOR. A geographer, Ted led the development of indicators of sustainability for the global tourism sector & is an adviser to the UN World Tourism Organization, the Global Sustainable Tourism Council, the World Wildlife Fund, & other NGOs.
Paul Beckwith on Global Tipping Points 2023 Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-05-29 | Description: The Good Tipping Points include renewables (solar PV, wind power, battery storage, electric cars), public awareness on climate disruption, & government action on carbon pricing. The Bad Tipping Points include glaciers, sea level rise, extreme weather events (heat waves, droughts, torrential rains, social cascades causing migration). The Ugly include the collapse of ocean currents, which could cascade to a frozen Arctic & Europe, baking equator, shifting intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) causing monsoon failures, lack of food, more heat into the Southern Hemisphere.Biography: Paul Beckwith has given many previous talks to CACOR on our rapidly accelerating climate system, and today is an update. Paul has degrees in Engineering Physics and Laser Optics. He has studied climate change for over 15 years. He has posted well over a thousand videos on his YouTube channel on all aspects of climate change and taught climatology, oceanography, and physical geography at U of Ottawa and Carleton U.
Julie Johnson on Greening the Heart of Education Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-05-22 | Description: We continue to develop unsustainably. If we don't consciously choose to educate for development that is sustainable, we are educating for unsustainability. "Greening the heart of education" requires changing what & how we teach to match the urgency of the climate change emergency & other environmental & social justice crises, providing the young people in our care with the education they will need to create the best possible future within the degraded global biosphere they're inheriting, and inviting Mother Nature to once again play a role in the education of her children.Biography: Julie Johnston is a climate change activist, teacher, & sustainability education consultant working with educators around the world through GreenHeart Education, which promotes transformative education for sustainability & greening the heart of education systems at all levels. Julie has a master's degree in adult education with a focus on sustainability learning, has taught an introduction to sustainable development course to international students at Royal Roads U in Victoria, BC, for the last 8 years. She believes we need to help children rekindle their inherent love for the Earth & the rest of Nature, fast.
#short Happy Birthday CACOR 50 Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-05-22 | A light happy birthday song to CACOR. Having a little fun.
CACOR Highlights 2024 1 Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-05-17 | #shorts Highlights of prior CACOR Live presentations
Amir Hakami on The Buy One Get One Free Climate Policy. Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-05-15 | Description: Climate change & air pollution share many common drivers & sources. However, policies to address each are often developed independently & without coordination. Further, broad public support for aggressive decarbonization measures has been elusive in Canada, & long-term climate policies remain vulnerable to political fluctuations. This talk explores quantitative linkages between climate mitigation & air pollution & seeks to show the value of an expanded narrative around climate action that incorporates air pollution impacts on population health & environmental justice.Biography: Amir Hakami is an Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Carleton U. His expertise is in air quality modeling, & his research is on applications of models to inform air pollution decision-making. Much of his work is placed at the interface of various disciplines such as atmospheric modeling, population health, environmental economics, & environmental justice.
Expert Snapshots 3 Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-05-14 | In 4.5 minutes, hear the main message from some past speakers on our weekly CACOR Live series now at almost #200.
Karen Shragg on What if Wolves Could Vote? Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-05-09 | Biography: Dr. Karen Shragg is a naturalist, writer, & speaker with a passion for wildlife. She has written on overpopulation & the health of ecosystems & the dismal future of humanity if balance isn’t addressed properly. She ran an urban nature center for 28 years & wrote 16 books including, Move Upstream: A Call to Solve Overpopulation, & co-wrote the Nature's Yucky series for children. Her degrees are from U Minnesota & U St. Thomas. She now runs MoveUpstream Environmental Consulting & works with NGOs to raise awareness of the overpopulation issue.Description: This session examines, from a wolf's perspective, political history of protecting, & often harming, the wolf in USA & Canada. Wolves have long been maligned, but we need them to thrive to maintain ecosystems at their optimal levels. What do wolves need & which political party is doing the most to help them? We’ll do a deep dive into our attitudes & policies towards this most important mammal, while learning a lot about ourselves, because the better we treat the wolf, the better lives we can all have.
#short CACOR Key Movers Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-05-01 | A short describing the purpose of CACOR
Karine Peloffy on the Climate-Aligned Finance Act Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-05-01 | Description: With Canada’s financial institutions among the main fossil fuel supporters, setting rules to require banks & pensions to align with climate action remains a key missing piece of Canada's climate plan. The Climate-Aligned Finance Act, which was drafted based on expert consultations & introduced two years ago by independent Senator Rosa Galvez, would fix this gap.Biography: Karine Peloffy holds an M.Sc. (Environmental Change & Management) from U Oxford & a B.C.L./LL.B. from McGill U’s trans-systemic law program. She joined Ecojustice in March 2024 as project lead for sustainable finance work. She authored the groundbreaking Climate-Aligned Finance Act and was an advocate for the Canada Net Zero Accountability Act. Karen has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 2007 and was director of the Quebec Center for Environmental Law (CQDE) from 2014 to 2018. She was deeply involved in the injunction that protected beluga whales against an oil terminal in the St-Lawrence. She has contributed to a diversity of environmental & social justice projects around the world & in Canada.
CACOR Expert Snapshots Part Two Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-04-27 | This 3 minute video captures some of the points made by our weekly speakers on climate change. It is short and insightful.
Brian Czech: Gag-Ordered No More Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-04-24 | Dr. Brian Czech is the executive director of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, which he founded in 2003. From 1999-2017, Czech served in the headquarters of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. During most of that time (2001-2015), he was also a visiting professor at Virginia Tech. Czech is the author of four books, the latest being Gag-Ordered No More: The 800-Pound Gorilla in the U.S. Government.Description: Brian Czech was the first “Conservation Biologist” (by that title) in the history of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He brought to FWS headquarters field experience, academic achievement, and a specialty in the conflict between economic growth and environmental protection. The latter was welcomed at first, but eventually the gag orders came, and a promising prospect for raising public awareness of limits to growth was destroyed. Czech’s new book (and the CACOR talk) is a story about the 800-pound gorilla of economic growth, erosion of First Amendment rights in civil service, and a vision for conservation agencies going forward.
#CACOR #50th Anniversary Experts on the Global Threat Part One Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-04-23 | Some of the 200 experts that have been contributors to this CACOR series of conferences on the Global Problematique.
#shorts #CACOR50 #CACOR What is CACOR after 50 Years Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-04-22 | In 30 seconds, it describes the mission of CACOR.
Alan Betts: Takeover by Mother Nature. Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-04-17 | This talk is an update to my 2022 CACOR talk. We have seen an increasing number of extreme events that suggest the Creator has taken over the climate system with its own agenda. The goal seems to be to reduce the destruction of species on Earth by flooding the fossil fuel industry and the coasts to weaken capitalism. Simultaneously our forecasting ability is being challenged by the increasing global web of managed connections in the complex ocean-atmosphere system.Dr. Alan Betts of Atmospheric Research in Pittsford, Vermont, USA, is a leading climate scientist with papers and talks at https://alanbetts.com. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the Royal Meteorological Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a past-president of the Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering. He was the AMS Robert E. Horton Lecturer in Hydrology in 2004; the AMS Jule Charney Award winner in 2007, and the first recipient of the Bert Bolin Global Environmental Change Award from the AGU in 2016. The mission of Atmospheric Research is to understand the Earth’s weather and climate, to develop improved earth system models; and to help society understand the existential challenge of global climate change as the Creator takes over to save life on Earth.
Jamie Kneen The Perpetual Pollution Machine Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-04-15 | We use, and see around us, a huge bounty of mined metals, from the mundane - roads and construction - to the more refined (if you'll pardon the pun) - high tech electronics and devices. But useful metals comprise a tiny percentage of the material that is mined, leaving hundreds of millions of tonnes of mine waste - waste rock and mill tailings - often acid-generating and/or toxic, on the surface, to be safely managed for decades, centuries, and millennia to come. Mining, then, is essentially a waste management industry, and its impacts on water only begin with the diversion, consumption, and contamination of water from mine operations and extend through time and space as potentially perpetual pollution as well as a latent threat of catastrophic contamination and destruction in the event of a containment dam failure. This presentation will address the scope and the implications of this problem in the context of mining being widely and self-interestedly promoted as necessary for the transition to renewable energy to address the climate crisis.Bio:Jamie Kneen is Canada Program Co-Lead and Outreach Coordinator leads Mining Watch's work on mining policy development and individual mining projects in western and northern Canada, leading policy reform and providing strategic and technical support to communities affected by mineral exploration and mining projects. With a degree in Biology (ecology) from McGill University, Jamie has been involved with environmental and resource management issues, including mining, frequently related to indigenous land rights, for many years.
Lalith Gunaratne - Renewable Energy Adventures: Solar and Small Hydro in Canada and Sri Lanka Canadian Association for the Club of Rome 2024-04-03 | The presentation will highlight a lifetime of renewable energy adventures with solar and small hydro that began with a Canadian-Sri Lankan collaboration in 1985 - continuing to date. The entrepreneurship story is captured in this chapter of a book "Ties that Bind" - canadiansrilankanpartnerships.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/solar-energy-canada-helps-sri-lanka-make-history/. The presentation will relate the technical, business and human issues as well the challenges and barriers that were faced and overcome with focus and a vision. These adventures continue as renewable energy still faces many obstacles. BioLalith Ananda Gunaratne is a member of CACOR - a parent, an entrepreneur, curator of global ethical business development and a mindfulness based leadership consultant. His renewable energy ventures continue the Canada-Sri Lanka collaborations.
