"Progressive Radio Network Host Bhavani Jaroff, Wednesday @ 5pm I Eat Green Newsletter
June 29, 2011 iEat Green with Bhavani on The Progressive Radio Network
Hello Everyone,
After my show last week, I drove up to Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, to listen to Bill McKibben's speak about the state of our planet, and the organization he started called 350.org. As optimistic as one can be about the local, sustainable food movement, and the growth we have seen over the last 10 years, there is nothing optimistic about the lack of our governments participation in turning the Global Warming crisis around. 2010 was the warmest year on record, and all of the weather changes associated with that, Artic melt, droughts, floods, fires, tornados, earthquakes, tsunamis, are just the beginning. Our government will not take it seriously, unless all of us start to demand it, and that will take a lot of work! Please, roll up your sleeves, and get involved in 350.org. Their website is www.350.org
My guest for my show this week, Wednesday @ 5pm(EST) will be George Pitagorsky, a man who is integrating his knowledge and wisdom of Eastern philosophies, and bringing it to Corporate America. His book, The Zen Approach to Project Management: Working from Your Center to Manage Expectations and Performance, Project Management (PM) Basics™, is a self-paced interactive e-learning course that can be adopted by corporations and professional services, and applied to business relationships. He also co-created the Conscious Living and Working Wisely Workshops and has written many articles and presentations on project management, organizational development, team building, conflict resolution and personal development subjects. He regularly leads courses and workshops in applying mindfulness and open-minded thinking in a very practical and realistic way.
My guest for next week will be Sheryl Duchess, a Certified Naturopathic Doctor and Master Herbalist. Dr. Duchess developed an educational program to help educate the average person on the basic principles of naturopathy and preventative care, which has been shared with thousands of people across the United States. It is Dr Sheryl's passion to help both adults and children discover more natural solutions to many of the most common health challenges.
Remember, it is every Wednesday from 5-6 pm, EST. To listen live, go to http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com and click the "Listen Live" button in the right hand corner.
If you miss the show, you can always listen in at a later date by going into the archives. It usually takes 24 hours for the current show to be put on line, but all the past shows (along with the recipes) can be downloaded from the website. All of the shows are also available through iTunes and are downloadable onto your iPhone.
Just go to the PRN website, my direct link is: http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/eating-green/ ,scroll down and choose which show you want to listen to. Then press “download”. The show will come on, or you can download it to your iPod and listen in the car or wherever!
In peace and love,
Bhavani
Upcoming Events
Edible New York's Eat Drink Local Week
In the city and across the Empire state, join us in celebrating everyone who feeds us. The 3rd annual Eat Drink Local week kicks off June 24, with the collaboration of all Edible magazines in New York State, and involves partners from the entire food chain. Dine out, cook in, and celebrate the ingredients, landscape and people behind our food and drink. And be sure to enjoy Eat Drink Local meals at these partner restaurants in Manhattan, Brooklyn and on the East End. (You can search the whole Eat Drink Local guide by neighborhood right here, too.)
New York City Restaurant Week
When: July 11th to July 24th
NYC Restaurant Week is a great oppportunity to try out some of the best restaurants New York City has to offer. Over 250 restaurants are offering 3-course lunch and dinner prix-fixe meals for $24.07 and $35.
Click Here for a list of participating restaurants
Slow Food Huntington is joining Food & Water Watch for their National Fair Farm Bill Tour this summer
When: Sunday, July 31st
Stay tuned for more details!
Slow Food Huntington presents:
Let's Eat! Films on Food Series
Our next screening will be
Forks Over Knives
When: August 11th, 7:30 PM
Where: Huntington Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave, Huntington, NY
Reception to follow and speaker TBA
OMG! (Oh My Girls!)
Keep your eyes open for the Grand Opening. OMG! is a healthy living center exclusively designed for girls between the ages of 8 and 18, where I will be the Senior Chef. Its focus is on the physical, nutritional, psychological and social health of teens and tweens.
Take Action
Join the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition for a National Day of Action
Today, June 28th, is a National Day of Action to protest the huge cuts to farm bill conservation programs. The agriculture appropriations bill the House of Representatives just passed, slashes $1 billion from mandatory farm bill conservation funding and tells USDA to drop the Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food initiative. The House measure would slash programs that support farmers who protect the soil and water on which our nation's future productivity depends.
Peaceful Protest in
Washington DC Against Construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline
TransCanada has proposed a 1,661 mile extension of the Keystone Pipeline from Alberta, Canada to oil refineries in the US. The construction of this pipeline would create huge environmental devastations. In order to defuse the largest carbon bomb in North America, there will be several peaceful protests between August 15th and September 5th. Please consider participating in this historic mobilization.
For more information click here.
In the News
"Lots of Talk, Too Little Action"
Agricultural Ministers from the G-20, an international body of 19 countries with some of the world's biggest industrial and emerging economies, gathered last week to discuss current agricultural issues. With widespread rises in food commodotities, action must be taken by these officials to help curtail these cost increases. Unforunately, during the most recent meeting, they failed to take the necessary steps to help eliviate this issue.
Birth Defects Caused by Roundup
A comprehensive review of data released by Earth Open Source, suggests that industry regulators in Europe have known for years that glyphosate, originally introduced by the agricultural biotechnology giant Monsanto in 1976, causes birth defects in the embryos of laboratory animals. Roundup is used in the production of genetically engineered crops, which do not require labeling in the US. To put it in prospective, an estimated 89 percent of domestic soybean crops were Roundup Ready in 2010!
These scientific findings are just one more reason to avoid GMO crops and to try and buy organic produce whenever possible.