by Ariel Miller American Rotarian Aur Beck has won the 2023 Walt Ratterman Award from the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners for providing free solar systems to Habitat for Humanity homeowners for whom this technology would otherwise be impossible...
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...
By Rtn. Jaideep Malaviya, ESRAG South Asia Lead for Renewable Energy The agriculture sector employs about half of India’s population, providing the primary source of livelihood for close to 60% of our people. India holds the record for the second-largest area of...
By PDG Jeff Smith, District 7170 Environmental Sustainability Chair Rotary’s Seventh Area of Focus is an enormous undertaking. According to Bill Gates, in his recent book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, the transition to net zero carbon emissions will be the...
