Hi All,

It has been a busy first few weeks of 2017, and I am finding it a challenge to sort through all of the emergency cries for help from every grassroots environmental, organic, sustainable food, hunger, health, women’s rights, gay rights, black rights, and religious and civil rights organizations who are concerned about the agenda of the upcoming administration. How can we not be freaked out? It is down right scary, and its hard to not feel helpless. Well, this booklet, The Indivisible Guide has helped to give me hope. We just have to start small and not let up. We can take our lessons from the Tea Party! Together, we have the power to resist — and we have the power to win! If the Tea Party could have the influence they did, with a popular president, then imagine the influence we could have with an unpopular president who has no mandate, no experience, is a racist, and has filled his cabinet with corporate billionaires! This is a step-by-step guide for individuals, groups, and organizations looking to follow the Tea Party’s success in getting Congress to listen to a small, vocal, dedicated group of constituents. Unlike the Tea Party, our values are good, clean and fair, based on inclusion, tolerance, and a deep concern for our health, our food, the environment, and people’s rights. Please join me in finding a group near your home, where you can mobilize, get energized, and do your part in regaining some sanity into our elected officials.

On Thursday, Charles Platkin, the Director of the NYC Food Policy Center at Hunter College, will be joining me on my radio show, to talk about his work as the Director of a center dedicated to educating students and the public about pressing issues within our food system. The NYC Food Policy Center works on creating innovative and evidence-based solutions to preventing diet-related diseases and promoting food security in New York and other cities.  The Center works with policy makers, community organizations, advocates and the public to create healthier, more sustainable food environments and to use food to promote community and economic development. Dr. Platkin is also one of the country’s leading nutrition and public health advocates, whose syndicated health, nutrition and fitness column, the Diet Detective appears in more than 100 daily newspapers and media outlets. I am thrilled to have Dr. Platkin joining me this week, and I hope you will tune in!

Remember, my show is recorded live, every Thursday, from 10-11 am, EST.  To tune in, navigate to PRN.fm and click the “Listen Live” button on the left. Also try downloading the PRN mobile app, and take the station with you wherever you go! If you want to call in during the show with any questions for me or my guest, the call in number is 888-874-4888.

If you can’t tune in at that time, you can listen to the show in the PRN archives, or through a direct phone line to my archives. Just dial 1-701-719-0880, and you can listen to the past 5 weeks of shows! Of course you can also access the shows through my website, or through iTunes. Please “like” iEat Green’s Facebook page and feel free to rate the show and leave comments on iTunes and on my website. Thank you all for your support.

With love and gratitude,

Bhavani