YOU can get a customized “path to zero” decarbonization plan for your home. The A2ZERO Home Energy Advisor will evaluate the “health, safety and energy efficiency” of your home and offer recommendations. The free assessments take about two hours to gather data throughout your home. Most assessments are conducted virtually while a small portion will […]

On Saturday, June 29 at Pioneer High School, Zero Waste.org is sponsoring a Neighborhood Swap Day. There are THREE ways Rotarians can help. 1. Give your unwanted items a new home instead of sending them to the landfill. 2. Find that item you’ve been looking for, without having to buy it new! (No need to […]

May 8th was a great day to be a Rotarian as RCAA presented the Robert S. Northrup Humanitarian Award to Dr. Robert H. Gilman MD, DMD. He is recognized for serving in multiple Rotary International areas of focus, including Disease Prevention and Treatment, Maternal and Child Health, and Basic Education and Literacy. As a practicing […]

Three distinct-sounding sighs were heard while coming to today’s meeting. The first – the sigh of students stuffing their dorm belongings into the family car – already wistful for their time so quickly passed as a student. The second – a parent’s sigh who, while happily anticipating their child being home for the summer, is […]

Linda Sheryl Carter was born in Detroit, Michigan on July 24, 1952, the first child born to Flossie and Nolan Carter. Linda Sheryl enjoyed a happy childhood in a working-class neighborhood on Detroit’s West side. Two of her childhood passions – “playing teacher” to a classroom of neighborhood kids and playing music, were precursors of her future […]

One of the most important things people can do to address climate change is talk about it, says Katharine Hayhoe of The Nature Conservancy. Several of our Environment Action Group attended her talk on Wednesday, April 24. [https://record.umich.edu/articles/wege-lecturer-says-effective-climate-action-is-fueled-by-hope/] Hayhoe notes that two-thirds of people in the United States are worried about climate change, but only […]

The April, 2024 meeting opened on Zoom (33 members on zoom) and in person at the University of Michigan’s Anderson Room.  The meeting opened earlier than the scheduled 12:28 start time. The patriotic song was sung by club members and Shirlee Kipp provided the inspiration. Joanne Pierson led us in “Put A Little Love In […]

A big thanks goes to the Rotary Road Waste Warriors who spent last Saturday morning along I-94 picking up all manner of trash as a part of the Michigan Adopt-A-Highway program. The Rotary Club sponsors the section of I-94 between State Street and Platt Road and twice a year we gather to clear up the […]

EAG was stumped as to how to branch out from our poplar tree planting last Spring. We were pining for a similar success. We can’t just leave. What wood help? We didn’t need to go fir. It was elemen-tree. Simply log in to the Ann Arbor Sustainability website. Nothing sappy about that. No shady characters. […]

Starting May 15, the security process for RCAA zoom meetings will change. As you know, you now enter zoom and wait until you are admitted. This process requires a volunteer to constantly monitor Zoom. In order to simplify the process and eliminate a volunteer job, we will be changing to a password. You will find […]