Speakers

Join us to support the new co-presidents and your board of directors as they are sworn in for this Rotary year already begun.  Carol Toomey is a well know Rotarian in our district with many accomplishments to her name.  She will talk about the Rotary Foundation and about Polio Plus.

If you are catching up on gender identity, then you’ve come to the right place. I want to provide you with an overview that will help you understand how Millennials and Generation Z are shifting gears. Chances are you might come across someone who’ll have a pronoun on their email signature, nametag, and business card; you’ll be better off for knowing what that means. Learn what’s okay to ask and become confident in handling yourself–with style–when using gender-neutral pronouns.

This will be a hybrid meeting with zoom plus in-person at the Echo Bridge Restaurant - 168 Chestnut St, Newton.

School the World is a community-driven nonprofit committed to solving extreme poverty through the power of education. Together with local governments, partners and deeply engaged parents, School the World organizes communities around education from early childhood through adolescence for 10 years of quality learning. We build schools, but that is not enough. To create lasting and sustainable change, we also train teachers, deeply engage the parents and local community, stock libraries, award scholarships for lower secondary school, and help scholarship recipients develop life skills and a plan for the future.

Ice at the North Pole describes the current situation up there. The connection between melting northern ice and sea level rise will be approached. Satellite photos from the last 30 years will illustrate this section of the talk.  Other large bodies of ice, Greenland and Antarctica, will be covered briefly.

Mr. Day will draw on his extensive reading on this subject, which includes:
• Climate Wars,  by Gwynne Dyer
• The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet   by Michael Mann
• The Ice at the End of the World,  by Jon Gertner
• This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate,  by Naomi Klein 

Mr. Day follows "Climate Adam" and Peter Beckwith on YouTube.