Rotary Club of Windsor (1918)
Environment Committee Page
Our Club is Located in Windsor Ontario Canada
Welcome to the Environment Committee Page. The information
below describes the mandate and activities of this committee.
As of Rotary Year 2000, the Environmental Committee was dissolved and its mandate preserved as a general club objective. This page will be kept alive as a reference source for future special projects.
Environment Committee Mandate
The Committee shall develop plans, procedures and projects which will enable
our Rotary club and its individual members to make the maximum possible
contribution toward restoring and improving the environment in all its
aspects.
The Environment committee should carry out such responsibilities as are
delegated to them in the club by-laws and all additional business as may
be referred by the club president or board of directors. Except where
special authority is given by the board, no action should be taken until a
report has been made to the board and approved by the board.
We did not inherit this land from our ancestors
We have borrowed it from our children
These are the words of a long departed North American Indian.
Preserve
Planet Earth was introduced into Rotary in 1990-91 and the program
quickly gained acceptance and support. The program provides Rotarians the
umbrella under which to plan and carry out projects to protect the
environment.
Rotarians can help safeguard our fragile world with hands-on projects, by
becoming respected spokesmen and women to raise community awareness of
environmental dangers and by cooperating with other organizations and
agencies to preserve our planet for the next and
future generations.
In this light, any positive action taken by Clubs towards a healthier and
more ecologically balanced environment can and will make a difference.
Not only will it improve the daily lives of those in your immediate
community, but the lives of people throughout the world and generations to
come.
As we are all part of the problem, it is important that we all play a part
in the solution.
Planet earth has been through a lot since creation. Earthquakes have ripped
the ground, ice has covered it. Continents have been broken apart and water
and land have changed positions several times. Massive, almost unimaginable
things have wreaked havoc on this globe, but the earth has been able to
handle even the most enormous changes because they happened gradually
THEN CAME MAN
The goals of Preserve Planet Earth are to:
Motivate Rotarians - and through them others – to practice environmentally sound
lifestyles;
Increase the number and diversity of environmental service projects
carried out by Rotary Clubs;
Incorporate environmental components in all Rotary service projects
to ensure consistency with the program;
Foster a world-wide image of Rotarians as being environmentally
concerned; and
Promote greater awareness among all Rotarians of the critical
environmental issues affecting their communities, their countries and
the world.
What can we do? Local initiatives are the key. Get involved. Look in your
own backyard.
The Preserve Planet Earth Handbook from Rotary International has 101
suggestions of things we can do. How many have heard of it?
Environment Committee Activities
The Rotary club actively promoted a
riverfront tree planting project
designed to enhance the development of the Riverfront Park.
Here is a picture of the
official tree planting ceremony featuring Rotarians Charlie Clark,
Norm Wheeler and our Mayor and Honourary Rotarian, Mike Hurst.
The Club has entered into a shared sponsorship of a major community garden.
A pledge of $25,000 has been made to the
"City of Windsor garden in honour of Paul Martin Sr".
This is to be paid over a period of 5 years at $5000 per year.
Environmental Links
Last Revised: May 3, 2007
