Hi All,

After my show last week, I headed into NYC for the first “People’s Climate March and Rally” of the weekend. Although it was nothing like the 2014 Climate March, there was still a palpable energy and spirit to bringing Climate Change to the forefront of all decisions. We need to let our voices be heard, and push our local elected official to support alternative energies, to reject investing money into building an infrastructure that supports the fracking industry, and we need to hold corporate polluters accountable for the toxic contamination they are responsible for. The rally in NYC was the first of hundreds of marches and rallies that took place across the country on Saturday, with over 30,000 people in San Francisco, raising awareness for the upcoming climate change summit scheduled for next week in that city. This was part of a coordinated effort, with hundreds of other actions that took place in cities around the world, to stand up against the environmentally dangerous policies of the Trump administration, which is working hard to eliminate regulations that would lower greenhouse gas emissions and hold corporations accountable. We all need to work together to turn this administration around!! It starts by Voting!! Make sure to vote and get everyone you know to do the same!!

iEat Green is happy to be working with the Cinema Arts Centre to bring Krishna Das to Long Island in a very special, fundraising concert, to support two very special farms in our community. Elija Farm and Orkestai Farm, both work with young adults on the autistic spectrum, teaching them about working with their hands and loving the earth. This event welcomes everyone in the community to come as they are!

For those of you who do not know Krishna Das, he has been called yoga’s “rock star.”  He has taken the call-and-response chanting out of yoga centers and into concert halls, becoming a worldwide icon and the best-selling western chant artist of all time. Come and enjoy the blissful embrace of Indian chanting. Krishna Das has been working on a new CD, especially geared to calm and relax the listener, so its perfect for people on the spectrum, as well as yoga classes, meditations and massages! The new CD will be available for the first time at this event. I hope you can join us! Tickets will go fast, so don’t wait to buy them!

My guest this week on the Progressive Radio Network is Beth Fiteni, the founder of Green Inside and Out and the author of the new book, “The Green Wardrobe Guide – Finding EcoChic Fashions that Look Great and Help Save the Planet.” Beth has a Masters Degree in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School, as well as twenty years of experience working in the environmental movement for non-profit organizations in DC and NY. Beth hosts a monthly radio show on WUSB Stony Brook University radio. She has worked at Renewable Energy Long Island, Sustainability Institute at Molloy College, and Beyond Pesticides, through which she coordinated educational programs, energy policy work groups, and national conferences. This past March, Beth presented a TEDx talk at Adelphi University entitled “The Toxic talk – Your Power Over Pollutants.” Fiteni was awarded the LI Sierra Club Environmentalist of the Year in 2017, the Woman of Distinction Award by the Town of Oyster Bay in 2011, the EPA’s Environmental Quality award 2010 for her work in co-creating educational materials on children’s environmental health (Ribbet.org), and the LI Business News’ Top 40 Under 40 Award in 2008.

Beth was trained by former Vice President Al Gore in 2012 and lectures regularly all over Long Island on “non-toxic, energy-efficient, green living,” in both English and Spanish. She has been featured in media outlets such as News 12, Fios 1, WNBC Channel 4, Newsday and the Long Islander, and has served as a Board member of the US Green Building Council LI Chapter, Prevention is the Cure, Slow Food North Shore, Vision LI, Friends of Huntington Farmlands and the Huntington Clean Energy Task Force. Please join me on Thursday, as Beth and I discuss the effects that the clothing industry has on our environment.

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With love and gratitude,

Bhavani