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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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.
Refrigerant Solutions
Reversing Global Warming by preventing powerful Green House Gases from escaping into the atmosphere. What is it?…
Renewable Energy
To encourage, educate and offer support for those involved in renewable energy projects worldwide.
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: Ralph Rosemans and Steve Andrews
Topic: "Update on conservation in the Cape Floral Kingdom" and "A Naturalist's life and his new book entitled, "The Magic of Butterflies and Moths""
February 8th 2023 at 2:00 pm (GMT +00.00) Greenwich Mean Time (Dublin)
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Speaker: Gertrude Noden
Topic: The Problem with Plastics: From Plastics to Playground
February 15th 2023 at 2:00 pm (GMT +00.00) Greenwich Mean Time (Dublin)
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Speaker: Rajendrakumar Saraf
Topic: UPCYCLING workshop to preserve and conserve resources with the aim and objective to develop capacity and leadership qualities in Indian students for sustainable living.
February 22nd 2023 at 2:00 pm (GMT +00.00) Greenwich Mean Time (Dublin)
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Featured Projects
Projects surrounding pollution.
