Events

Please join me as we speak with Maria about the preschool, view the "campus" and start to organize for garden beds.  

This is expected to be a great community service project and I hope everyone will get involved!

There is no morning meeting as we will celebrate Stan Green and all he does for our club and congratulate him on getting Rotarian of the Month.  Yay Stan!  We will meet at noon at the Garden Cafe in SR where they have outdoor seating.  Please come and show your support.

Discussion about restaurant raffle distribution of funds.  And more.

This will be a Harbor Rotary event outside on the patio at Arrivederci in San Rafael.  Appetizers will be served and a no host bar.  Cost TBD.

Feel free to invite friends and family.

A Viennese survivor, Paul taught for forty-five years in Mill Valley and San Francisco, high school, Alliance Francaise and Cal Extension

Creating a Legacy at Rotary provides info about how easy it is to make a bequest.   I will ask members of your Club to consider their experience of Rotary....the Rotary moments we all have had.   Through inspiration the future of Rotary will grow from your plans today for what happens tomorrow.  Creating a Legacy will allow Rotary to grow into the future. 

Dan Joraanstad is a member of the Rotary Club of San Francisco #2.  He has been involved for years serving with  Membership and the SF Rotary Foundation Board.  Currently Dan is District 5150 Endowment and Major Gifts Officer.

Dan and his husband Bob Hermann, also a member of the Rotary Club of San Francisco, are part of the White Hat Society, the Bequest Society, and the Paul Harris Society.  They are Major Donors focused on achieving membership in the Arch Klumph Society.

In 2021, the SF Chronicle spotlight led the Canal community of San Rafael for being the "most segregated neighborhood in the Bay Area." This upcoming talk welcomes Next Generation Scholars, a nationally-recognized educational non-profit, which empowers Marin's first-generation youth into college and into their careers. 

Joining Mr. Bui online will be an alumnus, Jorge Hernandez, a current resident of the Canal who will share his deep insights into the community, sharing his own journey of struggle and triumph, delving deeper and beyond the headline. 

A Marin County native, Malaysian refugee-born, NGS Program student and now Executive Director, Nghiem Bui (nim boo-ee) looks forward to sharing his story from San Rafael's public housing to college graduation; and now back in the community serving as one of our educational leaders. 

Climate change is exacerbating floods and droughts, but our development choices -- urban sprawl, industrial agriculture, and concrete infrastructure designed to control water -- are making these problems much worse. People in the Slow Water movement are instead collaborating with water, making space for it again, such as by using underground paleo valleys to recharge dwindling groundwater in California.

Erica Geis is the author of "Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge." An award-winning, independent journalist and National Geographic Explorer, she covers water, climate change, plants and critters for Scientific American, Nature, New York Times, bioGraphic, National Geographic and other outlets.

In this special lecture, Maestro Alasdair Neale will talk about what is involved in studying and understanding a musical score, how to communicate to the orchestra what is in the score through technique, the rehearsal process, and his duties as a Music Director.  

Maestro Neale is the Music Director of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Sun Valley Music Festival (SVMF) and Marin Symphony.  He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Cambridge University and a Master’s from Yale University, where his principal teacher was Otto-Werner Mueller. He lives in San Francisco and New Haven. 

Photo credit: Eisaku Tokuyama

It is well known that California could eliminate or drastically reduce its water deficit by diverting and storing the water from the upper 10% of high-magnitude river flows (for example, floods). Where could this water be stored? Answer: in groundwater systems, which have been sufficiently depleted in California that they could store additional water amounting to more than 3-times the storage capacity of the state’s surface reservoirs. This would require significant effort to recharge the groundwater systems with diverted floodwaters, which is known as “Flood-MAR” (managed aquifer recharge). I will discuss Flood-MAR and how California might use it to help solve its water supply problems as the climate continues to warm.

 Professor Emeritus of Hydrogeology, UC Davis, Dept. of Land, Air and Water Resources and Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences. I have spent the last 45 years researching and teaching about groundwater hydrology, including groundwater flow, contamination, computer modeling, and water resources management under climate change.

Amarok Society is proud to have partnered with more than a hundred Rotary Clubs to pursue an unusual model of education: instead of teaching children directly, we teach illiterate mothers to become neighbourhood teachers. 

Gem Munro has devoted his life and career to improving educational opportunities for disadvantaged people across Canada and abroad. Pursuit of this objective carried him into residence in unfortunate communities across most of Canada, before carrying him overseas.He is presently a Director of Amarok Society, a registered Canadian charity that provides education programmes to the very poor in Bangladesh. As well, Gem is a bestselling author and artist whose new book, And Where the Wind Spun Them, follows the epic adventures of a resourceful girl and her courageous little brother who struggle, by wit and grit, to overcome the perils and extreme disadvantages of their lives. (Sale of his books is a major fundraiser for Amarok Society.) For their work, Gem and his wife, Dr Tanyss Munro, were recipients of Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medals.

We’re past climate change and into climate emergency.  “Getting to Zero” is a boring goal — and not enough!  Find out about transforming cities and infrastructure for carbon sequestration.

Bruce King is the author of “The New Carbon Architecture” and "Build Beyond Zero", and has been a structural engineer for 45 years, designing buildings of every size and type all over the world. He is also author of the world’s first climate friendly building regulation, the Marin County Low-Carbon Concrete code.