Rotary Year 2023/24
Our Club President, Elisabeth Wetzel, will welcome us back for a new Rotary year.
If you are a Rotarian looking for Fellowship, you are very welcome to join us. Please contact our club secretary for details!
Luke Disney: “The role of banks in mitigating and adapting to climate change“
About the speaker: Luke Disney is Head of Climate for the Rabobank Group where he is responsible for the bank’s global climate impact strategy and approach. Luke is also a member of the EU Independent & Tripartite High Level Group on Financing the Sustainability Transition and a member of the Advisory Board for Chapter Zero in the Netherlands. Prior to joining Rabobank, he was Executive Director of the INSEAD Social Innovation Centre and the Founding Executive Director of North Star Alliance. Luke was born and raised on the east coast of Canada, and currently lives in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
If you are a Rotarian looking for Fellowship, you are very welcome to join us. Please contact our club secretary for details!
For this event, taking place on Rotary World Polio Day, we have invited former club members who still live in the Utrecht region. The aim is to share the plans and situation of our club and to get to know, who would like to be engaged in projects and to stay informed about future events. After a first ‘save the date’ mail in July with information about the event, we received a lot of positive reactions. On the evening of the event, we were happy to see many former members, including our very first club president Bart van Meegen. We also welcomed our newest member, Jeff Thornton, at this meeting.
Aine O’Nuanain, our Rotary Guest Scholar from the USA, talking about her experience and previous research regarding “Strategies for land-building in the lower Terrebonne Basin”.
About the speaker: Aine graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Coastal Environmental Science from Louisiana State University (LSU) in 2023 and she is now pursuing a master’s in Sustainable Development focusing on the interconnections between politics, ecology, and society. During her time at LSU she worked as a researcher, teaching assistant, and competed with the school’s rowing team.
An informal evening to share very practical ideas (applicable to our day-to-day life) regarding how to do things in a more sustainable way (ex: how to cook/shop/travel/… more sustainably). It could be around the 4Rs (Reduce, Recycle, Reuse, Repair).
Each member is invited to share at least one idea! What do you already do that is a practice other people could get inspired by? 😉
Rotary Club Utrecht International (RCUI) presents: A Christmas Party with the theme: FLOWER POWER
Remember, the Era of the 60’s and 70’s, Rock and Roll, Hippie, Free Spirit and PEACE. Please come dressed in theme… 🙂
(read more…)Sümeyye will talk about her journey from Enschede to Turkey, how it came about and give insight into the project for which she is raising funds for in collaboration with RC Hilversum-West and RC Kusadasi (Empowering Women in Agricultural domain, in Turkey’s earthquake area).
(read more…)About the topic: The Griffioen Wassenaar perennial plant nursery was founded in 1923, originally for the cultivation of perennials now in square 1.4 litre P11 pots, for sale via garden centres in north-west Europe.
Griffioen grows millions of perennials every year. All these plants get a spot in natural surroundings. Even as they are growing, the plants are very attractive for bees and other beneficial insects, who feast on their nectar and pollen. In the garden and the public space, the plants then go on to play an important role for many years.
(read more…)A meeting to learn more about (or get an update on) Rotary International, their priority areas, the 4-ways test, and other relevant elements as well as RCUI/our club’s structure, projects and options for members to actively participate for common goals. There will also be elections for the RCUI Secretary (starting from July 2024), coordinated by RCUI Elections Officer Jatin.
The last meeting of march will bring a very special guest: the Rotary District Governor Stan Uyland will visit the Utrecht Clubs.
Plan Einstein is an initiative from the city council of Utrecht with several different stakeholders from the city. We aim to give refugees a good start in our city and connect them to people from Utrecht. On the other hand is Plan Einstein also a place where people from Utrecht can develop themselves personally and professionally and broaden their networks.
(read more…)About the speaker: Gert-Jan van Dommelen is co-founder of the worldwide EndPlasticSoup initiative for Rotary to end the plastic pollution problem. Experienced program manager and consulting leader for IBM Benelux delivering successful transformation programs.
He is past president of Rotary Club Huizen Gooimeer D1570 in The Netherlands, Paul Harris Fellow, member of the environment commission in D1570 and honoured Member of the Dutch Royal Order of Oranje Nassau.