Hi Everyone,

It’s hard to believe that Thanksgiving and Hanukkah are already behind us, and Christmas and the New Year is just a few weeks away. Usually, during this time of year, I am opening up my home to hundreds of volunteers to cook up a feast for the needy, and to collect coats, toys and “like new” second hand jewelry for the winter and holidays. While the pandemic has put a dampener on opening up my home to volunteers, I am still getting calls from my wonderful community of friends and family looking for ways they can help, whether it is collecting coats and winter items, or dropping off toys and jewelry. They seem to know that I will get the items to the right place, and it is my pleasure to do so.

Therefore, if anyone has coats or winter items, toys or jewelry that you would like to donate to our less fortunate neighbors, please know you can bring them here to the iEat Green homestead, and I will get them to the right place!

Samantha Levy, American Farmland Trust’s Climate Policy Manager, will join Bhavani on the Progressive Radio Network!

Samantha Levy is American Farmland Trust’s Climate Policy Manager, coordinating the organizations’ Federal and State policy agenda and strategy to help farmers reduce GreenHouse Gas emissions, sequester more carbon in soils, host well-sited renewable energy facilities, and permanently protect more farmland. Prior to this role, Samantha coordinated AFT’s public policy agenda in New York to save the land that sustains us, leading the Alliance for New York’s Farmland to advocate for farmland protection and access policies, and convening and leading the New York Grown Food for New York Kids coalition, which successfully secured passage of an incentive to help K-12 schools buy more food from local farmers. Samantha also led AFT’s climate work in New York and was an appointed member of the Climate Action Council’s Agriculture and Forestry Advisory Panel to help New York achieve its GHG emission reduction goals for these sectors, as well as the Governors’ Racial Equity and Diversity in Agriculture Workgroup. Before joining AFT in 2017, Samantha interned for US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Slow Food USA, and worked as a farmers’ market manager in the NY Metro region. Samantha was named one of City and State’s 40 under 40 Rising Stars in Albany in 2020 and was listed on the New York Agriculture Power 50 List in 2021. She holds a Bachelors in Fine Arts from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, a Masters in Food Systems from NYU, and is a year one graduate from Cornell University’s LEAD NY program.

My Radio Show

iEat Green with Bhavani on the Progressive Radio Network is live, every Thursday, from 10-11 am, EST.  To tune in to the live show, just navigate to PRN.fm and listen in! Or, if you prefer, listen on the phone by calling 712-775-6850.

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With Love and Gratitude,

Bhavani

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