By Chris Stein, Chair, ESRAG Pollinator Task Force A few years ago, after reading the October 2020 Rotary Magazine article about ESRAG’s Operation Pollination environmental framework, Rotarian Rosalie (Roz) Schnick was inspired to take action to help protect...
After a week of overwhelming environmental news around the world, including record-shattering heat, terrible droughts, and forest fires, we feel hopelessness, uncertainty and sadness. I suffered feelings of deep helplessness this past week, as wildfires in my country,...
Insights from Keith Madden, The Rotary Foundation Manager for the Environment By Ariel Miller, ESRAG Newsletter Editor We’re delighted to provide an update on Rotary’s expanding environmental action, thanks to Keith Madden, The Rotary Foundation (TRF) Manager for the...
By Ariel Miller, ESRAG Newsletter Editor Undaunted by hyperinflation, last year’s wildfires, and the horror of widening war in the Middle East, the Rotary Club of Beirut Cadmos succeeded in planting 2,000 cedar seedlings this year on deforested slopes of Mt. Lebanon....
By Ariel Miller, ESRAG Newsletter Editor Through hands-on service and irresistible special events, Finnish Rotarians are expanding the ability of scientists to protect the Baltic Sea. Their work includes measuring and categorizing marine trash, monitoring blue algae...
by Ariel Miller Lebanese Rotarians are racing to qualify for a global grant to plant a cedar forest on dessicated land on the slopes of Mount Lebanon this fall. The project will protect the region’s priceless biodiversity and boost eco-tourism. Called Arztak Hawytak...
