By Ariel Miller, ESRAG Newsletter Editor Through hands-on service and irresistible special events, Finnish Rotarians are expanding the ability of scientists to protect the Baltic Sea. Their work includes measuring and categorizing marine trash, monitoring blue algae...
By Karen Kendrick-Hands, JD, ESRAG Partnerships Envoy and Training Coordinator The enormous proliferation of plastic waste has created one of the world’s worst environmental challenges. ESRAG’s Plastic Solutions team is mobilizing multiple forms of online and...
By Ariel Miller, ESRAG Newsletter Editor For over thirty years, Brian Braginton-Smith has been urging the United States to change course to prevent climate calamity. Working from the storm-battered Massachusetts coast where he grew up, this American Rotarian has...
By Ariel Miller, ESRAG Newsletter Editor Inspired by the service ethic of Rotarians, John Perry joined the Rotary Club of Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 2023 along with his wife Mary. He had witnessed the fellowship and good deeds of members belonging to the...
By Ambaree Majumdar, 2023-24 President, RC Marina City, Singapore On July 22, 2023, our Singapore Club held a climate-friendly installation for our new officers. Here’s how we did it, and how our members responded to this teachable moment. 1. Climate-Friendly because...
Concerned about the climate or other environmental issues? You and your club can easily be part of the solution by becoming more climate friendly and sustainable. How? Come hear Rotary International President-Elect Stephanie Urchick, Synergy Rotary Fellowship...
From ESRAG’s Plastic Solutions Team Plastic waste is considered to be the second biggest hazard after climate change, for humanity. Plastics stay in the environment for tens or hundreds of years. Once they enter rivers, lakes, seas, and oceans, they are harmful...
by Laurie Zuckerman The daily news and projections of humanity’s future are bleak. Despite this, or maybe because of it, my environmental activist friends live with a sustained sense of purpose, connection, and joy. What have they taught me and others to ask? First,...
By Dr. Mina Venkataraman, ESRAG Projects Director ESRAG’s experts are ready and eager to help you design an effective environmental project and track its impact. You can reach us by emailing your enquiry to [email protected]. We are rapidly developing resources...
Thank you, Pat! The past three years have brought an exponential growth in ESRAG: members, task forces, projects, webinars, and online resources. With love and brilliant systemic insight, Dr. Pat Armstrong has worked nonstop to make sure ESRAG has the structure and...
