By Deniz Vural, ESRAG Director The Earth’s vast oceans, constituting about 70% of the planet’s surface, contain approximately 97% of its water, with the remaining 3% found in various forms such as glaciers, ice, underground reservoirs, rivers, and lakes....
by Ariel Miller Rotary media are blooming with articles on the environmental work of Rotarians all across the world! Here a few of the beautiful examples, and how you can generate more buzz in the Rotary family hive: The April issue of Rotary Magazine is packed with...
by Alfredo Valero, Assistant Governor, D 2202 Rotary Green Revolution (RGR) is a global organization that brings together Rotarians from around the world to support Rotary clubs and districts in the fight to mitigate the effects of the climate emergency and accelerate...
By Kris Cameron, Co-Chair, ESRAG Plant-Rich Diet Task Force Can’t afford an electric car? Solar panels not an option? There is an inexpensive and easy way for all of us to tackle climate change every day! Project Drawdown, an ESRAG partner, has identified reducing...
by Ariel Miller, ESRAG newsletter editor Starting in 2019, a series of environmental disasters devastated the livelihoods of communities in East Gippsland, a rural region of Victoria, Australia for which farming, timber, and tourism have been economic mainstays. The...
by Francis Abner Abanilla, RC Metro San Pedro, D3820. On Nov. 1 2020, in the middle of the Covid pandemic, Typhoon Goni made landfall as a Category 5 cyclone in the Bicol region, south of where I live. With speeds of 140-150 mph, it devastated many towns. Magnifying...
by Natalia Luques Sánchez, ESRAG Latin America Correspondent By late March, forty Rotary Clubs and organizations from ten countries had already embraced the call from Ecuadoran Rotarians and nonprofits to achieve the biggest water clean up ever done by Rotary. The...
By Laurie Zuckerman, ESRAG Communications Director How can humanity transition to clean energy? Join us to hear and ask questions of Dr. Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency. Saturday 27 April at 1400 UTC, 1930 India, 900 US CDT...
by Marija Jevtic, MD, PhD, Rotary District 2483 Climate Ambassador If our planet Earth were to be viewed as an organism, it could be said to have become “highly febrile.” Human activities focused on industrial and economic development in the pursuit of material...
By Natalia Luque – ESRAG Latin America Reporter What would you do if your local government calls you and says that you have an hour to leave your home? The wildfires are going out of control and are coming too close to your house, so you must get yourself and...
