THEME
Pollution
Search for a solution to put an end to pollution.
WHAT IS IT?
Pollution Solutions at ESRAG
How do pollution solutions benefit humanity?
Pollution of our air, water, and soil endangers human health and longevity. Some pollutants, like the particulates from burning wood and fossil fuels, are causing 12-15 million people each year to die prematurely. Other dangers come from the estimated 350,000 different types of man-made substances now on the global market, such as plastics, pesticides, industrial chemicals, and chemicals in consumer products, antibiotics, and other pharmaceuticals. These can take the form of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or energy (such as radioactivity, heat, sound, or light).
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Master the Four-Way Test for Plastic Solutions
By Ariel Miller, ESRAG Newsletter Editor Finding a Path to Plastic Solutions Shining the Four Way Test as a surgical light, ESRAG's Plastics Solutions Task Force is illuminating ways for the family of Rotary to act most effectively to reduce the world's massive...
Tiny solar lamps spotlight the urgency of energy transition
by Ariel Miller, ESRAG Newsletter Editor Solar Light Campaign striving to Leave Noone Behind Buffalo, NY, September, 2024: Founded by American Rotarian Sarah Baird, a small nonprofit is leveraging $15 solar lights into a campaign to convince global stakeholders to...
A Brief History of ESRAG
By Karen Kendrick-Hands and Paul Riehemann ESRAG's journey Paul Riehemann, Past President, and Karen Kendrick-Hands, Rotary Club of Madison, Wisconsin, U.S., District 6250, co-founded the Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group (ESRAG), a journey that began...
Take Action on Pollution
Rotarians are inspiring their communities and regions to implement many strategies that prevent or reduce pollution. Farming practices that use less fertilizer and pesticides reduce the runoff and algal blooms poisoning our drinking water. Clean cooking drastically reduce families’ exposure to particulates that ravage their health. Watershed cleanups spotlight how pollution gets to the rivers we depend on, catalyzing business and public policy solutions. Rotarians are helping to expand what can be recycled, and encouraging new product design to prevent plastic waste. Click on the thumbnails below to discover some of the inspiring Rotary projects your club or district can replicate!
Clean Cooking
To create awareness of, and to promote practical solutions for the need
to urgently transition to Clean Cooking.
Plastics Solutions
Leveraging the power of Rotary to develop a global network to rethink and influence how we create, use, and dispose of plastic.
Renewable Energy
To encourage, educate and offer support for those involved in renewable energy projects worldwide.
Watersheds, Rivers, Oceans
Cleaning the watersheds, rivers and oceans throughout the World.
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Featured Projects
Projects surrounding pollution.
POLLUTION IMPACT
Resources
“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which
all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The harm caused by some man-made substances is already documented. Impacts can include genetic damage and cancer, reduced fertility, behavioral changes, birds starving because they have ingested plastic, antibiotic resistance, and breakdown of the ozone layer. We find these pollutants everywhere, including our own bloodstream. Science is warning us loudly: we need to decrease the use of pollutants and we need to clean up already contaminated areas.
Join with us to build out ‘Pollution’ as one of ESRAG’s key objectives.
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Featured Events
Speaker: Rob Anderson
Topic: Tackling Local Food Waste
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Speaker: Angela TenBroeck
Topic: Agriculture
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Speaker: Sarah Winkler
Topic: The Everyday Recycler
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