The Climate Threat and Rotary's Good Work in the World

Alan has been a Rotarian for many years and is a member of the Northfield, MN club of 148 members. He is a Paul Harris Fellow, and a member of Rotary International’s Environmental Sustainability Action Group (ESRAG). In 2017 he & several friends started a Rotary Climate Action Team (RCAT) in his club. Over the last several years, he has presented on climate change to over 180 church, school, business, fraternal and senior organizations, including 78 Rotary clubs.

In Oct. 2012, Alan and his wife Deb attended the Nobel conf. at Gustavus Adolphus College, on the health of our oceans, with some of the top scientists in the field, making presentations. This inspired Alan to take an on-line college course from MIT, on the Science of Climate Change, and begin giving public education talks on the subject.

He and his wife, Debbie, have been married 50 yrs, and have two grown kids, and five little grandchildren, who focus his concern on the health of the planet we will leave to them.