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The Revelator

Talking Point So…will you take the challenge and do an activity a day in January 2022?   This is published by permission from the Revelator a news and ideas initiative of the Centre for Biological Diversity, provides editorially independent reporting, analysis...

Join the Solar Safe Water Challenge

Talking Point Will you and or your Club support the Solvatten Project?Also, have look at this link … https://www.newyorker.com/news/2021-in-review/the-year-in-climate  Solar Safe Water <> http://solarsafewater.org/Solvatten <> https://solvatten.org/ A...

Christmas Cracker

Talking Point And this is the dilemma. Celebration and fun + raising money for Charity – what course of action should Rotarians promote?  And a cracker from Kirsten who discovered that Christmas time = 20 billion Electric light bulb, 400,000 tCO2; contributing to...

How Christmas is ruining the planet

Talking Point Maybe some thoughts for next Christmas???  Environmentalists call Christmas the world’s greatest annual environmental disaster. Regardless of how it's celebrated, Christmas is more often than not about consumptionDimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images...

COP26 AFTERTHOUGHTS : WHAT WAS MISSING?

Talking Point    On the 9th December the ‘COP26 Afterthought’ article began with the followingwords: “MANY CAME AWAY FROM COP26, the UN climate conference, with a strong sense of disappointment. Activist Greta Thunberg summed up the  proceedings as more...

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Treekly

Talking Point Will you take the Treekly Challenge to walk 5000 steps five days out of seven?Could this be an inter club and inter district challenge?  https://youtu.be/15EFXarEz40Treekly offers an easier way to help fight climate change. There is no single easy...

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COP26 AFTERTHOUGHTS: LANGHOLM MOOR

Talking Point Should Rotarians argue against the burning of heather on grouse moors?  AFTERTHOUGHTS: LANGHOLM MOOR Promises and pledges made at COP26 are one thing, but if humanity is to get anywhere near halting climate change in future decades and limiting...

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Unsustainable – Richard Joy

Talking Point Anyone read Richard’s book yet and care to comment on it? I think that it neatly highlighted the role of Governments and the need for political dialogue.  UnsustainableThe urgent need to transform society and reverse climate change by Richard...

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