Master the Four-Way Test for Plastic Solutions

Master the Four-Way Test for Plastic Solutions

By Ariel Miller, ESRAG Newsletter Editor Finding a Path to Plastic Solutions Shining the Four Way Test as a surgical light, ESRAG’s Plastics Solutions Task Force is illuminating ways for the family of Rotary to act most effectively to reduce the world’s...
A Brief History of ESRAG

A Brief History of ESRAG

By Karen Kendrick-Hands and Paul Riehemann ESRAG’s journey Paul Riehemann, Past President, and Karen Kendrick-Hands, Rotary Club of Madison, Wisconsin, U.S., District 6250, co-founded the Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group (ESRAG), a journey that...
Rebuilding hope from the ashes in rural Victoria

Rebuilding hope from the ashes in rural Victoria

by Ariel Miller, ESRAG newsletter editor Starting in 2019, a series of environmental disasters devastated the livelihoods of communities in East Gippsland, a rural region of Victoria, Australia for which farming, timber, and tourism have been economic mainstays. The...
Love of butterflies galvanizing people across the globe

Love of butterflies galvanizing people across the globe

By Ariel Miller, ESRAG Newsletter Editor Rotarians all over the world are inspiring their communities to embrace Operation Pollination. It starts with signing a non-binding Operation Pollination Partnership resolution to work together on two goals: to educate the...
4 New ESRAG Projects and Webinars to Look Out For this February

4 New ESRAG Projects and Webinars to Look Out For this February

This month we welcome speakers from five nations, reporting on Rotary’s work at COP 28, dangers to biodiversity, tools for climate action, and the impact of environmental crises on Rotary’s disaster response. A recording of each presentation is uploaded within a few...
COP 28 blazes new paths to scale Rotary climate impact

COP 28 blazes new paths to scale Rotary climate impact

By Ariel Miller, ESRAG Newsletter Editor Rotary’s dramatically increased participation in the 2023 UN Climate Conference (COP 28) opened major opportunities for Rotarians to help accelerate global action on the climate crisis.  In their Dec. 20 ESRAG webinar, ESRAG...