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Help Protect Food Safety; Limit Trump’s Power to Start Nuclear War; Organize a March Against Monsanto; Take Bee-killing Pesticides Off the Shelves

Posted on May 9, 2017

Stop Cutbacks to USDA and Help Protect Food Safety “President Trump’s most recent budget proposal contained significant cuts to the USDA budget – $4.7 billion. That’s a 21% cut to the agency already struggling to protect our food supply and … Read More

Posted in Take Action Tagged with: #bee-killing, #Center for Food Safety, #congress, #environment, #EPA, #friends of the earth, #neonicotiniods, #nuclear war, #Pesticides, #trump, #usda

Food Waste to Food Rescue; Sugary Drinks Are Banned; Food Activists Preserving Culture; DOW Chemical Representatives Working in the Shadows

Posted on May 2, 2017

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NYC Councilman Turns Food Waste to Food Rescue In April 2015, New York City announced it’s goal to achieve zero waste by 2030, reducing the 30 percent of our city’s waste which consists of food. In alignment with a number of other city-wide waste-reduction initiatives, … Read More

Posted in In The News Tagged with: #amaranth, #ancient grain, #big hunger, #bronx, #child development, #dairy cows, #environment, #EPA, #fish on my plate, #food activist, #food insecurity, #food waste, #healhty beverage zone, #industrialized food system, #monsanto take action, #nyc new york, #organic milk, #paul greenberg, #public health, #tribunal

EPA Assisting Rural Communities to Develop Healthy Places; October is National Farm to School Month; Student Outshines Cornell’s Ties to Monsanto

Posted on October 12, 2016

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EPA Assisting Rural Communities to Participate in ‘Rural Advantage’ Programs The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has invited rural communities to apply for planning assistance of subsidized programs that will improve economic and environmental conditions, per the ‘Rural Advantage’ initiative enacted by the Obama Administration. This opportunity is meant … Read More

Posted in In The News Tagged with: #cornell, #environment, #farm to school, #farmers, #fishermen, #food access, #food economy, #food processors, #healthcare facilities, #local food, #Monoculture, #Monsanto, #National Farm to School Month, #nutrition, #public health, #ranchers, #revitalize the downtown, #Ties to Monsanto, #U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, #United States Department of Agriculture

Take Action: Download the Buycott App; The Ad Pepsi Doesn’t Want You to See

Posted on August 9, 2016

Download the Buycott App On Friday, July 29, 2016, President Obama signed the bill which does arguably fail consumers in support of clear and proper labeling. However, as difficult as it is to let go of the battle lost, the … Read More

Posted in Take Action Tagged with: #app, #boycott, #buycott, #consumer, #crystalpepsi, #DARK act, #democratic, #dnc, #download, #environment, #food, #foodjustice, #healthcare, #indofoods, #obama, #palm, #palmoil, #pepsi, #pepsico, #Politics, #rainforest, #social equity, #sumofus

iEat Green Welcomes in Spring and Interviews Edwina Von Gal from the Perfect Earth Project

Posted on March 29, 2016

Hi Everyone, I am so happy, looking outside as my bulbs push their way through the earth, and decorate my home with the colors of the rainbow! Welcome Spring! Even though this winter was not a difficult one, I am … Read More

Posted in Eating Green with Bhavani Tagged with: #bees, #biodiversity, #carbon capture, #Climate Change, #Community Supported Agriculture, #CSA, #East Hampton, #environment, #extracted through a drip faucet, #honey, #humans, #lawn and garden chemicals, #local harvest, #nature-based techniques, #Perfect Earth Project, #Progressive Radio Network, #seedlings, #snow peas, #spring, #sugar snap peas, #synthetic, #toxic, #toxin-free land management, #www.localharvest.com

In The News: Boston Grocery Store is Fighting Food Waste; Pollinator Populations Greatly Affect Our Food Supply; An Elementary School Leads the Way in Net-Zero Learning

Posted on February 29, 2016

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A Boston Grocery Store is Stepping Up to Reduce Food Waste and Increase Food Security The Daily Table is a grocery store in Boston that is revamping the way local residents eat, and in the process helping to reduce food waste. People … Read More

Posted in In The News Tagged with: #Boston, #children, #Climate Change, #consumers, #elementary school, #environment, #food desert, #food industry, #food security, #food supply, #food waste, #food-safety, #grocery stores, #habitat destruction, #low-flow, #net-zero, #packaging, #pollinators, #sell-by date, #solar, #sustainable agriculture, #utility bill, #wildflowers

Take Action: President Obama Stop GMO Salmon; Support Standards to Reduce Emissions from Oil and Gas Operations; Stop Monsanto’s Dream Bill in the Senate

Posted on November 23, 2015

President Obama Stop GMO Salmon Despite scientific evidence that GM salmon is detrimental to our health and the environment, and despite the vocal opposition of hundreds of thousands of concerned citizens, it has been approved for sale in the United … Read More

Posted in Take Action Tagged with: #congress, #dream bill, #emissions, #environment, #EPA, #GMO, #GMO Salmon, #labeling, #Monsanto, #obama, #oil and gas companies, #petition, #pollution, #salmon, #standards

Take Action: Endorse Two Critically Important Summer Nutrition Bills; The Decades of Deception Must Stop; Tell Bayer: Stop Selling Bee-Killing Pesticides

Posted on July 14, 2015

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Endorse Two Critically Important Summer Nutrition Bills One million low income kids and teens across New York State rely on healthy school meals each school day, but only one in three kids and teens statewide access summer nutrition programs. In … Read More

Posted in Take Action Tagged with: #bayer, #bees, #Climate Change, #deception, #environment, #fossil fuels, #hunger, #kids, #meals, #Neonicotinoids, #new york state, #nutrition, #pesticide, #pollution, #summer