By Marielouise Slettenhaar-Ket “At my Rotary club lately we had speakers from industry, telling us that human-caused climate change was not proven yet, and that we have plenty of time. At the Rotary Institute however I understood that climate change is very...
by Karen Kendrick-Hands, ESRAG Co-Founder, RI COP 24 Observer, RI COP 26 Delegation The following resource links will help ESRAG members track what is happening throughout COP 27 in Egypt from the comforts of home. Because of the time difference, access to session...
Saturday 15 October 2022 by Patricia Armstrong, ESRAG Chair 2022-23 As I write this article, thousands of Australians are reeling from devastating floods that have hit the south-eastern part of my country, with further heavy rain and flooding expected next week. This...
Buildings consume about 40% of total domestic energy and have a resulting greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint. To affect climate change we need a “whole of society” shift, and decreasing the energy footprint of buildings must be part of it. The IPCC identifies 1.5 C above...
Eminent Rotary leaders PDG Shab Elawar (D 5340, USA) and PDG Deepak Gupta (D 3012, India) gave a joyous tour of the website www.matchinggrants.org to ESRAG’s Projects + Seminar on Sept. 8. Developed by PDG Shab and fellow Rotarians in California, this website...
By Avey Herlihy Born in the rise of the pandemic, at Our Lady of the Snows School in Canmore, Alberta, our Net Zer0 Heroes sustainability club has embraced the mission of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and shrinking our carbon footprint. By being aware of our...
This summer The Rotary Foundation (TRF) released guidelines for environmental global grants which both expand and fine-tune the initial Environment Policy statement from July 2021. The guidelines offer sound advice to equip applicants to achieve a “positive,...
ESRAG has a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Project Drawdown www.drawdown.org to educate Rotarians to implement Drawdown Solutions to reverse climate change as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible. ESRAG’s Climate Task Force is ready and eager to help...
By Dr. Mina Venkatamaran ESRAG South Asia has started collaborating with the environmental NGO ATREE (atree.org) on their citizen science program to increase the numbers of urban pollinators by establishing bee hotels. To our delight, this brought our pollinator...
Rotarians have added a powerful tool that makes housing more affordable AND slows climate change: Solar Habitat, a new initiative under Rotary’s partnership with Habitat for Humanity. Participating families will achieve big savings on monthly electric bills and...
