Greening Rotary Events

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22, June 2020 – Rotary 7th Area of Focus: Greening Rotary Events

Vic Grosjean showcasing how Rotarians can Green their events at the Rotary International Virtual Convention 2020 featured Breakout session in front of over 1,700 participants.

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ESRAG has been chosen to give one of the featured breakouts at the the first-ever Rotary International Virtual International Convention.

Rotary 7th Area of Focus: Greening Rotary Events

Rotarians around the world have been going through a crash course on meeting without driving or eating together, so it’s hard to imagine a better time to equip them to make Rotary meetings plastic-free and empower them to reduce their carbon footprint.

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Moderated by ESRAG’s Communications Director Karen Kendrick-Hands, the panelists highlight the steps: WHY (Karen) we need to green meetings, how to PLAN (Vic Grosjean), DO (Pat Armstrong), CHECK (Dakota Stormer) and ACT (Clari Nolet).

Goals and results:

- Avoid plastics, reduce carbon, save money by greening your event.
- Acknowledge and address perceived barriers to implementing environmental sustainability practices in clubs and districts
- Gather key recommendations to organise green events within a handbook.
- Lead Rotarians to plan their events and activities by implementing environmental sustainability practices.
- Reduce the impacts of Rotarian events on the environment.
- Develop an environmental ethic throughout our clubs and districts
- Promote each club having an environmental committee for each club to act in the common interest
- Enhance member recruitment to strengthen Rotary Clubs by practicing care for the environment, which will attract new younger members.