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iEat Green Shares Highlights from the LI Food Conference; Join the Cooking Extravaganza for Thanksgiving! Cooking for the Sierra Club; Casting our Vote! Jon Chin, from Share Meals, Joins Bhavani on PRN! Joins

Posted on November 7, 2018

Hi All, The 2018 Long Island Food Conference is behind us, but the work to make Food a national political issue is still ahead of us! When I say Food, I mean a fair food system where everyone has access … Read More

Posted in Eating Green with Bhavani Tagged with: #antibiotics, #chemicals, #coat drive, #Democratic Initiative, #diet for a small planet, #food pantry, #Frances Moore Lappe, #GMO's, #homelessness, #Hormones, #hunger, #Jon Chin, #LI Food Conference, #living democracy, #PCB's, #Pesticides, #plastic, #River Fund NY, #Share Meals, #Sierra Club, #Tom Colicchio

iEat Green Joined The #FamiliesBelongTogether March in NYC; Raquel Jacquez Sharp, from the The Sylvia Center, Joins Bhavani on the Progressive Radio Network

Posted on July 4, 2018

Hi Everyone, This past Saturday, all across the country, hundreds of thousands of people showed up to protest the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and their practice of separating children from their families. The #FamiliesBelongTogether March was a coming … Read More

Posted in Eating Green with Bhavani Tagged with: #FamiliesBelongTogether, #Chez Panisse Foundation, #Climate Change, #Edible Schoolyard, #equity, #fees for unions, #GMO's, #gun control, #herbicides, #Hormones, #Immigration, #Justice Kennedy, #Letters to the Editor, #LGBT Rights, #midterm elections, #Our First Amendment Rights, #Our Freedom, #Pesticides, #racism, #Raquel Jacquez Sharp, #register to vote, #sign petitions, #The Sylvia Center, #travel ban, #vote

Choose Organic; Ban the Use of Neonicotinoids; Call Your Representatives NOW to Support Critical Farm Bill Programs

Posted on June 5, 2018

Organic Solutions: Go Beeyond Using Pesticides and Seek Organics Get involved and let us eliminate our use of pollinator-toxic pesticides like neonicotinoids and glyphosate. Let us spread the word and share the news that organic farming systems are healthier for … Read More

Posted in Take Action Tagged with: #bayer monsanto, #bee, #farm bill, #food agriculture, #GMO's, #Neonicotinoids, #organic solutions, #pesticide, #Pesticides, #Round up, #take action, #toxic chemicals

Submit Your Comments on Misleading GMO Label; Say NO to Glyphosate; Support Sustainable Fishing Company CSA; Beeyond Pesticides: Stop the Use of Bee-killing Lawncare and Ag Products

Posted on May 21, 2018

Submit your comments about the proposed label for Genetically-engineered organisms in processed foods here, before July 3rd. Let them know your concerns regarding product labeling, and demand that foods which have been genetically-modified be required to bear a disclosure indicating … Read More

Posted in Take Action Tagged with: #agriculture, #bee pollen, #Bee-killing Lawncare, #ben and jerrys, #Center for Food Safety, #Neonicotinoids, #organic, #Pesticides

Transition to Organics Around the World; Minimum Wage Hikes and the Job Market; Recent Report Shows Increases in Food Recalls

Posted on February 6, 2018

Tea Farmer In India Leads Charge For Organic, report by NPR “Tenzing transitioned to organic farming after an incident with pesticides on his own farm convinced him he needed to change. He would feel nauseous and have headaches after spraying … Read More

Posted in In The News Tagged with: #bacteria related disease, #corporate power, #fair trade, #FDA, #food and illness report, #international, #Monsanto, #npr, #Pesticides, #public health, #root of science, #sickness, #stericycle, #tea organic, #the salt

Stand Up for Science; Support Long Island Greenmarket; Ban Toxic Chemicals from Your Home; Resist BigAg From Taking Control of Our Food

Posted on November 28, 2017

Stand Up for Science: Demand an Investigation into Pruitt’s Decision to Remove Scientists from EPA Advisory Board “As the head of Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Scott Pruitt is shameless in his quest to get rid of environmental protections. In … Read More

Posted in Take Action Tagged with: #bee pollinator, #bees, #Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), #earthjustice, #Farmers Market, #fundraising, #GMO, #li greenmarket, #Long Island, #Monsanto and Bayer, #neonicotinoid, #newmans own campaign, #Pesticides, #roundup

Francis Thicke’s Bids Farewell the NOSB; Dicamba Rampage Continues; GMO Arctic Apple Hits the Midwest; Artist and Seed Saver Inspires Many; Humans ARE the Cause for Climate Change

Posted on November 7, 2017

Francis Thicke’s Farewell Address to the NOSB After Hydroponics is Passed for Organic Certification Last week it was a solemn defeat for many farmers, as hydroponics was welcomed into organic certification. It was decided during the Jacksonville National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) … Read More

Posted in In The News Tagged with: #apple, #arctic, #artist gardner, #climate change report, #Deeply Rooted, #dicamba, #GMO, #heritage, #John Coykendall, #new york, #organic, #Pesticides, #science, #seed savers, #Slow Food, #times

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