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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Protect Your Family from Wildfires Smoke: How to Build Effective DIY Home Air Filters
by Ariel Miller, ESRAG reporter Wildfires season causing public health crisis September, 2024 - The terrifying expansion of wildfires and wildfire season is a fast-growing public health crisis. The Yale Center for Climate Change Communication (YPCCC) has published...
When a loss becomes inspiration
What can be more life-impactful than being on your mother’s lap many times before bed and seeing her cry for the loss of your older sister? That image, along with all the stories of how she got sick with Polio after swimming and playing in the polluted Ameca River in...
Register for ESRAG’s Annual Meeting: Breakthrough Progress on the Climate Roadmap
Annual General Meeting: Progress on the Climate Roadmap Join your fellow ESRAG members on Zoom to celebrate the progress we've made together over this past year in inspiring Rotary to address the climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises. Your involvement in ESRAG...
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.
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“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: Bob Anthony
Topic: Tools to stay in the positive quadrant of the 'climate emotions wheel'
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Speaker: Andrew Maher, AM
Topic: With One Seed - carbon forestry in Timor Leste. Economic and community development through agroforestry.
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Speaker: Michael Terrelong, Felix Kimani
Topic: Food Security, Food Systems, Agriculture and Aqua-culture
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Speaker: Rob Anderson
Topic: Tackling Local Food Waste
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Speaker: Angela TenBroeck
Topic: Agriculture
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