By Laurie Zuckerman, ESRAG Communications Chair ESRAG tackling global challenges Feeling overwhelmed by the world’s environmental crises? ESRAG is catalyzing worldwide Rotary teamwork to meet the challenge. More than 300 people registered to attend or watch the...
What can be more life-impactful than being on your mother’s lap many times before bed and seeing her cry for the loss of your older sister? That image, along with all the stories of how she got sick with Polio after swimming and playing in the polluted Ameca River in...
by Ariel Miller, ESRAG Newsletter Editor Join the Nationwide Recycling Effort and Boost Sustainability American Clubs have an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate the recovery of lithium, cobalt, copper, and nickel from the lithium-ion batteries that consumers...
By PDG Jeff Smith, Brian Braginton-Smith, and Tina Nilsen-Hodges Could Green Schools Be the Key to Unlocking Green Careers? How we educate our children – including preparing them for green careers – is crucial to a sustainable future for our planet. A...
By Ilya “The Admiral” Shcharbitski, Rotaract Club of Scheveningen Launching the ESRAG Podcast At the end of 2022, after doing a lot of social media work for COP26 in Glasgow, I thought we needed more media channels to reach Rotarians and to inspire them...
By Kris Cameron, ESRAG Plant-Rich Diet Task Force, Amelie Catheline, ESRAG Food Waste Task Force, and Tami Mulcahy, ESRAG Plastic Solutions Task Force Towards Zero-Waste events No matter what you call it – near zero waste, towards zero waste, or something else...
by Chris Davies, Co-Chair, ESRAG Great Britain & Ireland Chapter (GBI) Rotarians Taking Action for a Sustainable Future I am writing to invite you to become part of the ESRAG initiative Be a Hero, Go Net Zero, or “BAHGNZ” (pronounced Baggins for ease)....
by Elizabeth Henke, MD, Chair, ESRAG Habitat Solar Initiative Rotarians Embrace Solar Energy with ESRAG’s Million Solar Panels Challenge at RICON 2024 Our exciting conversations with a multitude of people at the Rotary International Convention (RICON) in Singapore...
by Barb Sheehan, ESRAG Oceania Chapter ESRAG booth at RICON ’24 It was with much anticipation that l arrived in Singapore a couple of days before RICON, carrying posters for the ESRAG booth that had been displayed in Melbourne the year before. When Melbourne...
by Rtn Rajendrakumar V Saraf, Rotary Cadre of Advisors for the Environment Teaching Upcycling: Elevating Waste to Wealth and Sustainability Upcycling increases the original object’s value by transforming by-products, waste materials, worn-out, or unwanted products...
