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 Kris Cameron, Confluence Rotary Club, Wenatchee, WA, USA Project Drawdown lists plant-rich diets as the climate solution with the second highest global potential to reduce heat-trapping gases in our atmosphere. The ESRAG Plant Rich Diet Task Force has recently...
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 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 Joey O’Brien, ESRAG Director The Banff Marathon was Canada’s first signatory to the United Nations sectorial call for partnerships under “sport for climate action.” We hit 100% waste diversion in 2018. This is for an event with about 10,000 people over...
By Malc Rooney, Coordinator, ESRAG Regional Chapter Chairs Over the past year I have become increasingly aware that there is much being done in response to Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability that is positive. I think that Rotary International in general...
