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Good Afternoon Fellow Rotarians! I hope everyone is energized after the amazing weather over the weekend. We will have our regular lunch meeting this Wednesday Date: 13th September 2021 (Wednesday)
Time: 12.30pm to 2.00pm
Location: Crystal Ballroom, Holiday Inn Golden Mile, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong Topic: The Carbon Diet - Eating out and reducing one’s carbon footprint Background on Peggy Chan In 2012, Peggy Chan opened Grassroots Pantry (GP) in Hong Kong with a mission to raise awareness and share knowledge on the benefits of plant-based cuisine. Seven years later, she evolved GP into Nectar - a high-end dining concept featuring a progressive, seasonal tasting menu that uses local biodiverse and often forgotten ingredients. The same year, GP's first sustainability report was recognized by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals ESCAP as a best practice case study on sustainable sourcing and responsible management. Peggy emerged as one of the region’s most authoritative voices on organic sourcing and sustainable food systems, where she is often invited to speak on panels related to food policies on behalf of the food-service industry, develop educational programs, consult industry peers on sustainable practices while empowering them to take action. In 2020, Peggy developed Grassroots Initiatives Consultancy to assist food service professionals in their transition towards best practices that meet both human and planetary health goals. Recently, Peggy published her first cookbook ‘Provenance: Principles of Plant-Based Cookery’. She has recently been tasked to lead non-profit projects in the region including scaling impact-venture Zero Foodprint to Asia - an NGO that works to rapidly mobilize funding from the food industry and restaurant sector to scale agricultural climate solutions; as well as bringing Chefs’ Manifesto to Hong Kong - a global initiative and network that engages chefs as advocates for a better food system for all. Peggy is an alumni of Global Shapers Hong Kong, World Economic Forum, a HK Environmental Excellence Awardee in the service sector, and a nominee for the Basque Culinary World Prize in 2019. UPCOMING EVENTS, details to follow: 25th September, 2021 : Community Canteen for the Needy 29th September, 2021 : Joint Fellowship Dinner with RC Dragon (details enclosed)
Here is the fact for this week. I hope you will read them carefully, as you never know when you'll be quizzed, good luck remembering them :) Fact #3) Some Rotary Firsts - The first Rotary club meeting was in Chicago, Illinois, on February 23, 1905.
- The first regular luncheon meetings were in Oakland, California, chartered in 1909.
- The first Rotary convention was in Chicago in 1910.
- The first Rotary club outside of the U.S. was chartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in 1910.
- The first Rotary club outside of North America was chartered in Dublin, Ireland, in 1911.
- The first Rotary club in South America was chartered in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1918.
- The first Rotary club in Asia was chartered in Manila, Philippines, in 1919.
- The first Rotary club in Africa was chartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1921.
- The first Rotary club in Australia was chartered in Melbourne in 1921.
- The first Rotary club in Northern California was chartered in Eureka in 1923.
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