Welcome to CACOR
Our Vision
CACOR actions and activities in Canada and beyond, will contribute to limiting, stabilizing and reversing human demands and practices which imperil the natural systems of the biosphere.
Les gestes et activites accomplis par CACOR au Canada et au-delà contribueront a limiter, stabiliser et renverser la demande et les pratiques de la population humaine qui mettent en peril les systemes naturels de la biosphere.
Our Brochures
These can be found at Édition française et/and English Edition
Next Monthly Guest Speaker Event
The next guest speaker event will be a luncheon to be held at the Army Ottawa Officer’s Mess located at 149 Somerset Street West, Ottawa, starting at 11:30 am on 16 April 2014. The guest speaker will be Ryan Anderson. His presentation will focus on Space Applications for Sustainability. Visitors are welcome. Cost for the luncheon for members is $20 and for non-members is $25
Recent Additions to the Web Site
Environmental Performance Index (EPI)
The EPI, developed by Yale University and calculated annually by them for 178 countries, comprises a comprehensive list of issues – three (3) Environmental Health and seven (7) Ecosystem Vitality. The 2014 EPI report can be found here.
Globe Conference
Here is a link to the upcoming Global Conference in Vancouver in March. It has a number of interesting themes and speakers.
Stand Still for the Apocalypse
The attached blog piece by Chris Hedges summarizes a report, entitled “Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4 degree C Warmer World Must Be Avoided”, commissioned by the World Bank. The blog piece contains a link to the referred report.
Past Events
Special
During the period 19-21 September 2013 CACOR hosted the Annual Meeting and Conference of the Club of Rome (CoR) and its 35 National Associations at the National Hotel in Ottawa. The theme for the Conference was Governance of the Commons for which the program agenda can be found at the conference web site at CoR 2013 AA and Conference
Monthly Guest Speaker
The presentation at the 19 February 2014 guest speaker event given by Dr. Alexandra Mallett of the School of Public Policy at Carleton University was entitled Making the Visions of Energy Reality in Canada: a ‘Pipe Dream’ or Actuality. The Power Point slides for this presentation can be found here.
The presentation at the 15 January 2014 luncheon event given by Andrew Van Iterson, Manager of the Green Budget Coalition, was titled A Unique Asset of Canada’s Environmental Community. The Power Point slides for this presentation can be found GBC
The presentation at the 12 June 2013 luncheon given by CACOR member David Dougherty was titled Musings on Things We Know. The Power Point slides and associated speaker’s notes racan be found at Musings
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Our Blogging Facility
Visit CACOR’s Blogging Facility by clicking on the Issues Forum tab above
Major Event Reports
Presentation - Governance of the Commons – March 2013
Roberto Peccei, Vice President of the Club of Rome, at CACOR’s monthly guest speaker event gave an informative and powerful presentation with the title Governance of the Commons – the Role of the Club of Rome. The event was attended by over forty members, guests and the general public
New Economic Thinking Symposium – October 2011
Continental Dialogue
This gathering, hosted by Canada over three days in late May 2011, brought together five countries of the Western Hemisphere – Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and United States of America. Videos of conversations for three of the participants were recorded – these are:
From Mexico Gerado Gil Valdivia – President of the Mexican Association of the Club of Rome and member of the Club of Rome.
From Brazil Heitor Gurgulino de Souza – President of the Brazilian Association of the Club of Rome and Vice President of the Execxutive Committee of the Club of Rome.
From the United States of America Roberto Peccie – member of the Executive Committee of the Club of Rome and President of Fondazione Aurilio Peccei.
