About the Presentation:    Jim DiPeso spoke to us about how energy, which impacts our lives in countless ways, is generated and delivered to us and how its impacts on us, our economy, and our environment are shifting significantly as structural change sweeps through the world of energy. Rather than summarize Jim's talk in a few paragraphs, I'm suggesting that the slides in Download Files at the bottom of the Tidings are the best way to learn from what Jim has learned and told us.

 

About the Speaker:  Jim has been writing about energy for over 30 years as a journalist and in the nonprofit world. He and his wife have lived in River Falls since 2022 and he is the secretary of our club.

Tim Reardon described the regional Rotary Literacy Team's BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) for 2025: they seek to transform communities to have the highest reading proficiency with the fewest inequities and achieve it with "a fierce urgency of now." The benchmarks of success: every child is "wired" to read by age 3 and reads proficiently at grade level. Rotarians are championing this effort in communities across Minnesota and the Distric Team aspires to spread this movement to Wisconsin as well.  Tim opened his talk by asking us to put our minds in the place of 3rd graders who know that they are behind their peers when it's time to read in class.  He also presented statistics about the price that both individuals and society pays for our collective failure to make sure that all children are able to read.  To be further inspired/challenged, click Download Files below to see Tim's slides.