REGIONAL CHAPTER
West North America
We have a number of programs both through ESRAG
and Rotary International that need your help.
Key Information
Countries Included in Region
USA: AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, NM, OR, UT, WA, WY.
Canada: AB, BC, SK
Leaders of Chapter
Yavuz Atila
Official Regional Links


About Our Chapter
Welcome to the Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group (ESRAG)!
ESRAG was formed to empower Rotarian and non-Rotarian members to take actions to sustain our environment, particularly to stabilize our climate. How can ESRAG help you?
ESRAG provides an organizing point and informational resources to share information with clubs and communities about sustainable practices and the global humanitarian crisis of climate change.
Our action model:
Identify environmental leaders within the Rotary world, assist them in initiating environmental service projects that are meaningful to THEM, help where we can, and acknowledge and publicize their awesome work.
We look forward to collaborating with you to bring Rotary’s ‘Service Above Self’ ethic to solving environmental problems.
UN Environment: Rotarians Vital to Climate Solutions
With pollution and climate change wreaking economic havoc, causing more than 7 million premature deaths a year, and fueling the refugee crisis, “we are doing a poor job for our planet and our peoples’ health as we pursue economic development,” warned Dr. Hartwig Kremer, Head of UN Environment’s Global Environment Monitoring Unit, in a speech to ESRAG members in Hamburg. But because we are “in touch with local communities, professionals, and business leaders worldwide,” he added, Rotarians can catalyze solutions.
The UN provides the framework and tracks global progress: “In September 2015, with the backing of 193 world leaders, 17 Sustainable Development Goals were agreed to eradicate extreme poverty and achieve a healthy, sustainable world by the year 2030.
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Featured Events
Attend our Monthly Regional Chapter meetings.
Second Monday of every month at 5:30 pm PDT, Zoom
Contact us to attend today.
Speaker: Experts on conservation, sustainability, and program planning
Topic: Implementing Rotary's new Environment Area of Focus
August 8th - August 22nd 2022 at 12:00 pm
More info
Speaker: Lis Mullin Bernhardt, Barry Rassin, Dr. Chris King, C. Mark Eakin, Vic Grosjean
Topic: Sustainable development to transform our world.
September 1st - September 6th 2022 at 8:00 am
More info
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Featured Projects
A few of the projects our regional chapter is and has been involved in.
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Featured News
Maryland students’ huge win to reduce food waste
If food waste were a country, it would be the third worst emitter of greenhouse gas emissions of all the nations in the world. That fact failed to intimidate a team of school children in the US...
Engaging communities in climate solutions through En-ROADS
“Research shows that showing people research doesn’t work,” said En-ROADS Ambassador Nate Mills at an ESRAG Climate Solutions workshop Jan. 25. Instead, Mills explained, it’s more effective to put...
Principles and Promise of Circular Economy
Watch Dr. Yasar Atacik’s March 30 presentation to ESRAG’s Projects Webinar for an empowering introduction to the principles of circular economy. Here are some of the key points. Circularity goes far...
Form your own committee.
Learn more about how to form your own Club
or District Environmental Sustainability Committee.