By SAFAK OZSOY Less than a month after the cataclysmic earthquakes of Feb. 6 – in the midst of organizing emergency shelter, health care, and other essential services to survivors – the Rotarians of District 2420 went ahead to hold a conference on climate...
By Kris Cameron, Confluence Rotary Club, Wenatchee, WA, USA Project Drawdown lists plant-rich diets as the climate solution with the second highest global potential to reduce heat-trapping gases in our atmosphere. The ESRAG Plant Rich Diet Task Force has recently...
By Joey O’Brien, ESRAG Director Harvard philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger wrote, “at every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different.” Imagine if all the fears imbedded...
By Ariel Miller, ESRAG Newsletter Editor As the catastrophic 2022 floods devastated the homes, health, and livelihoods of over 33 million Pakistanis, the United Nations Environment Programme and the OECD warned that the growing gap in climate aid is accelerating...
by Dr. Pat Armstrong, ESRAG Chair, and Dr. Yasar Atacik, ESRAG Chair-Elect Pakistan’s catastrophic 2022 floods, Europe’s deadly wildfires, and the titanic cyclones slamming Africa are just three of the rising global toll of disasters which justify the urgency of the...
By Joey O’Brien Is the carbon market real? Take a look at this map identifying current actors in the voluntary carbon market. If you have not been inundated with information about carbon credits or offsets, you might have found the perfect rock to hide under....
By Ariel Miller “Personal carbon trackers can make one feel hopeless,” notes economist Dr. Nilam Bedi, ESRAG’s technical liaison to Rotary International. “How do we link our actions to impact? Rotarians are very action-oriented. We need optimality: a way to find the...
By Joey O’Brien, ESRAG Director The Banff Marathon was Canada’s first signatory to the United Nations sectorial call for partnerships under “sport for climate action.” We hit 100% waste diversion in 2018. This is for an event with about 10,000 people over...
By Karen McDaniels, Co-Chair, ESRAG Central North America Regional Chapter Lone Star PETS in Texas is Rotary’s largest President-Elect Training conference in the US. It is always held the last weekend in February and invitations go out to 10 Districts. This year,...
By Ariel Miller When one path fails, find another. Though what I am about to describe is not a Rotary project, I am a Rotarian. This is my own story about mobilizing who I am, where I serve, and who I know to live within our planetary means. I’m from the American...
