After the Flood
Alberta Rotarians get their feet wet and their communities dry. In June 2013, two days of relentless rain hammered southern Alberta. Water inundated valleys and overflowed riverbanks in a swath of...
View ArticleBoy Genius
A rocket scientist is born, with help from Rotary. Early on, Kenneth Wilson realized that raising his son Taylor would require some creative parenting. Toys never interested him; he preferred the real...
View ArticleBusiness: Fairway Deals
Former editor of Golf magazine Kevin Cook explains how to succeed in business without really golfing. They say that every golf match is won or lost on the first tee – in the bickering over strokes and...
View ArticleCan We Take Our Water for Granted?
The United States has some of the safest drinking water in the world. But for how long? I’ve spent enough years reporting about the world of water that I have a favorite water main. This particular...
View ArticleThe Talent Around the Table: Devin Thorpe
Crowdfunding can finance socially responsible causes. Devin Thorpe, a member of the Rotary Club of Salt Lake City, knows how to raise, and manage, big bucks. His career includes stints as an...
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Polio’s Retreat
Meet some of the last children in India who will ever know what it’s like to have polio. Southeast Asia has been certified polio-free. As photojournalist Allison Kwesell walks through the narrow...
View ArticleOut of Chaos
How do you help girls in Ghana escape poverty? You listen. The smells smack us, first fish, then cooking stews, urine, smoldering trash, one after another. Music blares and people shout “obrini!” –...
View ArticleTechnology: Comments Unbecoming
On the Internet, does anonymity invite incivility? When my friend Laura started blogging for a high-profile website a few years ago, her fellow bloggers shared their first rule of survival: Don’t read...
View ArticleRecommended Reading: What Makes a Hero?
Elizabeth Svoboda delves into the science of how and why people act selflessly. If heroes seem to be everywhere these days, that’s because they are, according to Elizabeth Svoboda, who, in What Makes a...
View ArticleHealth: Unforgettable?
Those ‘senior moments’ can be a reminder to take brain health seriously. If you’ve spent any time around a golf course, you’ve probably heard about the golfer who arrives one morning boasting about how...
View ArticleContrarian Rotarian
To investment manager Lauren Templeton, trouble is opportunity. On 9 March 2009, the U.S. stock market bottomed out. Investment manager Lauren Templeton spent the morning scrambling to buy stock. Her...
View ArticleBusiness Class
Rotarians are investing in Detroit’s entrepreneurs. Levi Johnson Jr. makes a mean barbecue sauce. Born in western Tennessee and raised in Detroit, he developed a taste for Southern cooking during...
View ArticleNatural Networker
Latricia Wright, a member of the Rotary Club of Detroit, is on the lookout for new business opportunities. Like most small-business owners, Latricia Wright is always on the lookout for opportunities. A...
View ArticleBack to Business
Detroit gets creative as it reinvents itself. If a sense of hope is what you’re looking for, most people would tell you to avoid inner-city Detroit in the dead of winter. But here I am, driving through...
View ArticleCulture: Beyond Borders
Exchange programs make the world more peaceful, one student at a time. Mara Egherman, a college librarian, was sitting at her desk when she saw an email pop up: Ryan Ahmad, a Muslim exchange student in...
View ArticleFacts of the Matter: Crowdfunding
Did you know that crowdfunding raised an estimated $5.1 billion in 2013? THE BRITISH ROCK BAND Marillion is credited with inventing crowdfunding, the process of soliciting small donations from a large...
View ArticleKids Without Borders
A Seattle Rotarian takes on the legacy of Agent Orange in Vietnam. Five pallets of baby pajamas changed Son Michael Pham’s life. Or rather, they allowed Pham to change the lives of children in Seattle,...
View ArticleCulture: Photographic Memory
Does taking pictures enhance experience, or detract from it? In the middle of Hong Kong Island is a mountain known as the Peak. A cable car climbs the slope from the city, arriving at a building...
View ArticleThe Rotarian Conversation: Donald A. Henderson
Can we end polio? Donald A. Henderson, a leader in the eradication of smallpox, didn’t think so. We changed his mind. When young physician Donald A. Henderson chose the fields of epidemiology and...
View ArticleTuned In to Peace
Vanessa Contopulos, a former Rotary Peace Fellow, is using music to create social change. Music therapist Vanessa Contopulos knows the power of melody. But even she was surprised when, as a volunteer...
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