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Below are webinars, PDF's, activity ideas, Powerpoint presentations and short online videos that you may use to build your own presentations for clubs and schools.

What Can You Do to Reverse Climate Change?

• Doug White's presentation to the Rotary Club of St. Thomas East, Virgin Islands, District 7020 May 23, 2018
• Plastic Pollution Primer and Action Toolkit - Earth Day Network 2018
• Plastics, Plastics Recycling, and the New Plastics Economy, Dr. Tommi Vuorinen, presentation to the RC of Tampere International, Finland

COP24 Katowice powerpoint 

• Karen D. Kendrick-Hands, RI's Observer Delegate to COP14 Katowice, Poland, Dec. 3-14, 2018 (large file annotated pdf- 34 MB)

A Circular Economy

• Shifting to the Circular Economy, ESRAG member Matt Kopac's presentation to the Rotary Club of Durham, North Carolina, District 7710, July 2018.   
  • Narrative 
  • PDF
  • Powerpoint  
• Circular Economy, presentation by Dr. Tommi Vuorinen, Rotary Club of Tampere-Kissanmaa, Finland

Tree Planting Presentations

• The Benefits of Tree Planting - School Presentation to 5th Graders (by Rotarian Richard Underkofler)

• Project Learning Tree - Use the environment outside and indoors to engage children in learning

  • Link to Local State Coordinators (USA)
  • Link to International Coordinators (Brazil, British Columbia, Chile, Japan, Mexico, Uruguay, and via the Peace Corps)

• National Tree Benefit Counter (U.S.A.)

• Family Activities - from the Project Learning Tree

• Rotary and the 1.2 Million Tree Planting Challenge (by ESRAG Director Melissa J. Mills, updated January 5, 2018)

Videos

• The Circular Economy (3:48) Provided by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation 

• The Donut Economy (15:43) TED talk by economist Kate Raworth

• Mission Green in Tanzania/Uganda (District 9211) (4:36) by ESRAG Director and 2017-2018 District Governor Ken Mugisha

• Trees for the Future - Forest Gardens (9:00) 

• The Story of Trees: Difference They Make in Haiti and the Dominican Republic (15:51)

ESRAG Strategy and Tree Planting Post-Convention Workshop, Atlanta, June 2017

Sponsored by the Robert W. Hagan Foundation Roswell

• Agenda

• ESRAG Strategy and Tree Planting Challenge Presentation (PDF) and Video 

• Tree Planting in Bangladesh (PDF) and Video

General Resources on Environment and Climate Science

• Preserving Rotary's Legacy in a Changing World (by Rotarian Alan Anderson)

• How might you respond to the person who points out, correctly, that climate change is the normal and perennial condition? 

  • Listen to Katharine Hayhoe's response following a panel presentation to the Austin, Texas City Council.  

• CATIE (Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza) es un centro regional dedicado a la investigación y la enseñanza de posgrado en agricultura, manejo, conservación y uso sostenible de los recursos naturales. Sus miembros son Belice, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, República Dominicana, Venezuela, el Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA) y el Estado de Acre en Brasil.

Webinars from Climate Voices (via Rotarian Kristin Wegner)

• The Game-Changing Dynamics Behind Paris 2015, Senator Timothy Wirth and Reid Detchon, The UN Foundation

• Climate Voices - Science Speakers Network - library of videos and resources