By Lesley McCarthy Sixty-six people attended the ESRAG Action Summit on May 25 at the Melbourne Town Hall! Our first guest speaker, Prof David Karoly, Australian world leader in climate dynamics and climate change science, spoke on climate change and how Rotarians can...
by Laurie Zuckerman, ESRAG Communications Chair Concerned about the Environment? Depending on your country, most polls show those concerns are increasing. Rotary is no exception as evidenced by the addition of the Environment to our areas of focus, grants supporting...
By Najar Nyakio Munyinyi, RC Laikipia Highlanders, Nanyuki, Kenya Biological diversity is essential to human well-being. The more complex and diversified a trophic system is, the healthier the environment, and the higher the quality of air, soil and water. Africa has...
By Joey O’Brien, ESRAG Director Harvard philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger wrote, “at every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different.” Imagine if all the fears imbedded...
By Ariel Miller, ESRAG Newsletter Editor As the catastrophic 2022 floods devastated the homes, health, and livelihoods of over 33 million Pakistanis, the United Nations Environment Programme and the OECD warned that the growing gap in climate aid is accelerating...
by Dr. Pat Armstrong, ESRAG Chair, and Dr. Yasar Atacik, ESRAG Chair-Elect Pakistan’s catastrophic 2022 floods, Europe’s deadly wildfires, and the titanic cyclones slamming Africa are just three of the rising global toll of disasters which justify the urgency of the...
