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Environment T.F. Home
Projects to preserve and protect
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Rotary's first-ever conference in Antarctica (January, 1997) drew
attention to the crucial environmental role of that continent, which
has been likened to a canary in a coal mine — a gauge to warn the
earth of unseen environmental dangers.
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A Rotary Foundation Matching Grant
sponsored by Rotary clubs in
Texas, U.S.A. and Turkey is providing seeds, plants and fences to
prevent wind erosion in Bursa, Turkey.
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Car dealers tuned up engines and disposed of used oil, tires and
batteries free of charge in Vaxjo, Sweden. Rotarians obtained the
car dealers' cooperation and organized an air quality seminar on
limiting pollution.
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The Rotary club of Famagusta, Cyprus launched an island-wide
environmental awareness campaign that included the production of
television and radio announcements, posters, children's coloring
books, and pamphlets showing how to build a solar oven and an
organic composter. Recycling bins, designed and built by club
members were offered to each municipality. In addition, some 2,500
trees grown in the club's nursery were planted.
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Rotarians from Sao Paulo, Brazil, working with several Rotary
districts in Canada, the U.S.A. and Brazil, donated 56,000 nut trees
for replanting Brazil's rain forest. The trees provide income for
local Indians and combat deforestation. The Rotary Foundation added
a US$100,000 Health, Hunger and Humanity (3H) grant to fund
fertilizer, transport and other expenses. The trees will live an
average of 600 years.
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Mexico's Monterrey-Cumbres Rotary Club developed a children's
ecology education program. Children learned to wash, sort and
compact daily refuse. The program taught garbage was misplaced
resources and recycling was the solution.
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The "Clean and Green" project of the Rotaract Club of
Eastern Dagupan in the Philippines is a two-phase program to
decrease pollution and restore trees to the area. Rotaractors
promote environmental awareness through local media publicity and by
passing out information. They also placed trash cans in various
well-traveled areas and planted tree saplings in schoolyards.
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In Haiti, a 3-H grant helped renovate the Tapion dam and canal
system. There is now water for crop irrigation and local farmers are
being trained in agroforestry, and soil and water conservation. The
project is cosponsored by Rotary Club of Carrefour and Rotary clubs
in Rotary District 7890 (Massachusett and Vermont, USA), which also
sent volunteers. Assistance for the project was also provided by the
U.N.'s Food & Agriculture Organization.
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The Rotary Club of Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., funded the
environmental publication "Going Green: A Guide to Becoming an
Environmentally Friendly Business Without Going Broke." The
publication was distributed to area companies to help them decrease
energy consumption, reduce waste and improve recycling.
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