President Riseley challenged every Rotary club to make a difference by planting a tree for each of its members between the start of the Rotary year on 1 July and Earth Day on 22 April 2018. Trees remove carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the air, which slows global warming.
“It is my hope that the result of that effort will be far greater than the environmental benefit that those 1.2 million new trees will bring,” Riseley said. “I believe the greater result will be a Rotary that recognizes our responsibility not only to the people on our planet, but to the planet itself.”
Link to tree planting brochure: https://www.esrag.org/sites/default/files/imce/ESRAG_Tree%20challenge%20brochure_ff.pdf
Click here for Youtube video of President Riseley issuing the challenge at last year's convention.
