ESRAG’s Kirsten Weber briefs UNESCO on Rotary’s surging role in green education

by Ariel Miller, ESRAG Newsletter Editor Rotary’s Green Education Initiatives at UNESCO Conference Climate Scientist Dr. Kirsten Weber alerted an international audience to Rotary’s rapidly-expanding environmental action during the Rotary Day at UNESCO...

ESRAG makes a world of new friends at RICON ’24

By Immediate Past Chair Pat Armstrong and Chair 2023-2024 Yasar Atacik RICON ’24 and the Spirit of Sharing Hope with the World In the last week of May, the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre in the heart of Singapore came alive with the buzz of 14,000...

ESRAG thanks departing Directors and welcomes the newly-elected

by Yavuz Atila, ESRAG Chair-Elect ESRAG thanks the following Directors for their service and leadership as they complete their terms on the Board: Dr. Yasar Atacik, Türkiye (Chair 2023-24, Director 2018-2024) Joey O’Brien, Canada (Director 2021-2024) Dr. Rick...

Returning to his roots: 1 Rotarian connects farmers to remarkable sustainable solutions

By Ariel Miller, ESRAG Newsletter Editor A Journey Towards Sustainable Solutions As farmers worldwide struggle to survive rising risks and costs, an American Rotarian is bringing his entrepreneurial expertise to their aid, and relishing the challenge. Lance Miller, a...

Driving Critical Greenhouse Gas Reduction in Schools: Nickelodeon Leads LOOL Composting Programs on ChangeX

by Joe Richardson, Chair, Lunch out of Landfills LOOL Partners with ChangeX to Drive Greenhouse Gas Reduction in Schools We are excited to announce that Lunch out of Landfills (LOOL) is now part of the ChangeX Platform and is included in a $200,000 fund from...

Register for ESRAG’s Annual Meeting: Breakthrough Progress on the Climate Roadmap

Annual General Meeting: Progress on the Climate Roadmap Join your fellow ESRAG members on Zoom to celebrate the progress we’ve made together over this past year in inspiring Rotary to address the climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises. Your involvement in...

Striving to save food security in Burkina Faso

Restoring Food Security: The Efforts of APROSSA in Burkina Faso Editor’s note:  Save the Children International warns that 1.4 million children in Burkina Faso will face critical levels of hunger this summer, a crisis forged from years of armed conflict and...

Empowering Subsistence Farmers with Life-Changing Seeds for Global Nutrition

By Ariel Miller, ESRAG Newsletter Editor Combating Malnutrition and Poverty with Semilla Nueva’s Biofortified Seeds Trekking through the Guatemala highlands in his early twenties, meeting and listening to indigenous farmers, Curt Bowen was appalled to witness...

Circular Economy: Transforming Local Food Systems for Sustainable Growth

by Grace Gillman, Canmore Rotary Club Local Food Systems for Sustainable Growth How we feed ourselves is one of the most complex challenges facing humanity and our planet. Agriculture and food systems account for 24% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions...

Solarizing two small homes yields giant impact

by Steve Solbrack with Twin Cities Rotary EcoClub The Twin Cities Rotary EcoClub (EcoClub) in District 5950, Minnesota, USA collaborated with Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity (Habitat) to purchase and install solar panels for two new Habitat homes. Funding for the...