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Calling all cooks! Share your favorite plant-based recipe with us!
Have a favorite recipe that you love to make? Or a dish that friends and family always ask for? Want to become famous and share it? Well, almost famous! The ESRAG Plant-Rich Diet Task Force is updating the plant-based cookbook that accompanies the Plant-Rich Diet Challenge. This guided journey into more planet friendly eating has been enjoyed by over 1,000 Rotarians and friends in the past few years. We would love to include your favorite recipes for plant-based dishes in the second edition - whether easy or complicated, sweet or savory. If you're comfortable sharing a photo of yourself, your Rotary club and location, and even a short note about your dish, we'd love to share that too. Simply complete this short & simple submission form before March 1st. Thanks in advance for sharing the recipes you love with the world. Join our community on Facebook, Instagram, visit our website - esrag.org/plant-rich-diet/, or email us at [email protected].
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Now Presenting: Solar Habitat!
Rotarians have added a powerful tool that makes housing more affordable AND slows climate change: Solar Habitat, a new initiative under Rotary’s partnership with Habitat for Humanity. Participating families will achieve big savings on monthly electric bills and...
Maryland students’ huge win to reduce food waste
If food waste were a country, it would be the third worst emitter of greenhouse gas emissions of all the nations in the world. That fact failed to intimidate a team of school children in the US state of Maryland, who’ve proven they can reduce food waste in their...
Engaging communities in climate solutions through En-ROADS
“Research shows that showing people research doesn’t work,” said En-ROADS Ambassador Nate Mills at an ESRAG Climate Solutions workshop Jan. 25. Instead, Mills explained, it’s more effective to put them in charge: “Give them a way to see the problem, what they can do,...
Principles and Promise of Circular Economy
Watch Dr. Yasar Atacik’s March 30 presentation to ESRAG’s Projects Webinar for an empowering introduction to the principles of circular economy. Here are some of the key points. Circularity goes far beyond diverting waste: it starts with designing products that are...
Restoring Wetlands in the Western Ghats
When massive floods and landslides left thousands homeless in Kerala, South India last year, scientists in the Nilgiris West Rotary Club seized the teachable moment to focus their community’s attention on the ecological damage that fed the flood, and to point to...
Clean Cooking Task Force
By Ariel Miller Some 3 billion people, almost half the world’s population, still rely on open fires and fuels like wood and kerosene to cook their food. The simple act of cooking is responsible for 4 million deaths per year and is a major source of global greenhouse...
Racing to Restore Indian Forests
By Ariel Miller Oct. 2021 Rotarian CR Hanumanth was driving east from Mysore through a forest last February when he noticed an extraordinary flowering of Bambusa bambos, an indigenous species of bamboo. This only happens every 35-40 years. There’s no way to predict...
Rotarians Advocate for a Vast Watershed
As a child growing up in Guadalajara, México, Salvador Rico was told never to swim in the Río Lerma Santiago because of its lethal burden of sewage and industrial pollution. He vowed that when he grew up, he would come back to clean up that river. Now, as a member of...
Rotary Speaking at COP 26
From the speakers we learned about the broad range of Nature-based solutions that mangrove restoration bring to the climate and biodiversity crisis.RI President Mehta Commits to Mangrove Initiatives.By Karen D. Kendrick-Hands In a speech Nov. 10 at the UN Climate...
COP 26 Scintillates on ESRAG Social Media
Get in on the action on social media.ESRAG's communicators lit up Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram with the drama, pageantry, and struggles of COP 26, thanks to posts by ESRAG directors Karen Kendrick-Hands and Larry Hands throughout the UN Climate...
COP26 First Week: Promises Made in the Blue Zone
An opportunity for Rotary impact. COP 26: Week 1By: Karen D. Kendrick-Hands Within the Blue Zone of COP26, the first week’s results included commitments on: methane reduction stopping deforestation increasing private philanthropy for green energy projects...
Rotary Poster Competition
Children’s creative solutions, exhibited at COP26, as well as at Glasgow Airport and hotels, brought an extra dimension to the climate debate.Putting Children's Voices Front and Center at COP26.By Doug Wills, RI Delegate to COP26 Children’s concerns over the world’s...
ESRAG Podcast: Climate Conversations
Welcome to the ESRAG Podcast, your go-to source for all things related to the Environment and Sustainability Rotary Action Group (ESRAG). Join us as we explore innovative solutions, inspiring stories, and actionable insights from Rotarians and experts dedicated to creating a sustainable future. Each episode delves into topics such as climate change, renewable energy, biodiversity, and community-driven environmental initiatives. Whether you’re a seasoned environmental advocate or new to the field, our podcast offers valuable information and motivation to help you make a positive impact. Tune in and be part of the global movement for a greener, healthier planet with ESRAG.
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