iEat Green
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iEat Green - 05/23/13
My guest this week is Mark Dunlea, the Executive Director of the Hunger Action Network of New York State. Mark is a community organizer and long time anti-poverty, food justice and peace advocate. Mark’s degree as a lawyer, informs the work he does in advocating for a just Food and Farm Bill, and his work [...]
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iEat Green - 05/16/13
An Interview with Lindsey Lusher Shute, Executive Director & Co-Founder of the National Young Farmer’s Coalition This week, my guest is Lindsey Shulte, a woman who is working hard to help young people who want to be farmers, get started. Increasing the number of young farmers in this country is so important, if we want to [...]
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iEat Green - 05/09/13
This week, my guest is Gary Oppenheimer, the founder of Ample Harvest, a very cool organization that connects home gardeners with food pantries. What started as an idea only 5 years ago, has blossomed into a national organization with connections being made in every state. Please join me on Thursday at 10 am EST, as [...]
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iEat Green - 05/02/13
This week, my guest is the award-winning, Long Island film-maker Byron Hurt, whose documentary, Soul Food Junkies, has been passionately changing the way people see their diets. Last month, I had the privilege of attending a screening of the film and shared in the laughter and joy as the concerns of the soul food diet [...]
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iEat Green - 04/25/13
This week, my guest on my radio show will beEllen Kamhi, the Natural Nurse. Ellen is a colleague of mine and hasher own show on PRN, which airs every Tuesday at 10am EST. I’m thrilled to have her join me this week and talk about all the amazing work she is doing. This weekend, Ellen [...]
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iEat Green - 04/18/13
This week, my guest on the Progressive Radio Network is Melissa Kogut, the Executive Director of Chef’s Collaborative, another organization that is changing the way people eat. Most of you probably are not aware of this organization, because it mainly serves chefs, but since we all eat out so much, you have probably benefited from [...]
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iEat Green - 04/11/13
My guest this week is Toyin Coker, a mover and a shaker from Toronto! I met Toyin this past Fall at Terra Madre in Italy, and I knew by listening to her comments, that she was someone I wanted to interview. The work she is doing in buildingcommunity through events and Permaculture, while educating people [...]
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iEat Green - 04/04/13
This week, my guest are Julie Cerny and Anna Hammond from The Sylvia Center, which is a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching young people about cooking and where their food comes from. They own the Katchkie Farm in Kinderhook, New York, which supplies all of the food needed for the classes and many farmer’s markets [...]
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iEat Green - 03/21/13
My guests are Priscilla Timberlake and Lewis Freedman, authors of a new cookbook called The Great Life Cookbook. This book focuses on whole foods, vegan and gluten free meals for large gatherings. I’ve tried some of the recipes and they are wonderful! Priscilla Timberlake As a mother of four, she has spent a lot of time [...]
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iEat Green - 03/14/13
An Interview with Darina Allen, Owner of Ballymaloe Cookery School This week, I am very excited to bring on a guest I met this year at Terra Madre. Darina Allen is the president of Slow Food in Ireland and the founder of the Ballymaloe Cookery School. The work she is doing in Ireland is truly inspiring. [...]
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iEat Green - An Interview with Fekkak Mamdouh - 03/07/13
An Interview with Fekkak Mamdouh, Co-Founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United This week, my guest on the Progressive Radio Network is Fekkak Mamdouh, the Co-Founder of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United. For those of you who listened to my show a few weeks ago, I had on his partner Saru Jayaraman and discussed the issues revolving [...]
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iEat Green - Mary Cleaver - 02/28/13
This week, my guest is a person who is creating that ‘bliss point’ using ingredients that tantalize the mouth and create the desire for more, while using only the highest quality of ingredients. Yes, I am talking about Mary Cleaver, owner of The Cleaver Company and The Green Table. Mary is the “go-to person” for [...]
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iEat Green - 02/21/13
Saru Jayaraman is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC-United) and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley. After 9/11, together with displaced World Trade Center workers, she co-founded ROC in New York, which has organized restaurant workers to win workplace justice campaigns, [...]
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iEat Green - 02/14/13
I will be interviewing Fumi Tosa, from the international organization, Table For Two. Table for Two is the only organization I know of, that is trading calories from cultures that are eating too much, and financing cultures that need more. It’s kind of a “cap and trade” deal for food, instead of carbon emissions. To [...]
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iEat Green - 02/07/13
Betsy Davidson is the new Editor of the all new “Edible Long Island”, which joins over 70 other Edible magazines across the country. Betsy has years of experience as a freelance writer, as a horticulturist, and as a gardener. She is a passionate mother, grandmother, home gardener, farmer and chef. Betsy helped [...]
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iEat Green - Stephen Brooks - 01/31/13
My guest this week is Stephen Brooks, the director of Punta Mona in Costa Rica. It’s always amazing when we are reminded of what a small world we live in. One of my interns this past summer had done an internship in Costa Rica and was telling me about it. She mentioned Punta Mona, and [...]
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iEat Green - Clean Plates - 01/24/13
Jared Koch, Founder of Clean Plates, graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition with certification by Columbia University, Teachers College in 2005 and graduated from the Global Institute for Alternative Medicine in 2004. He is a health coach, nutritional consultant, and certified yoga and meditation instructor. In 2011, Jared came out with his first book, [...]
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iEat Green - Caryn Hartglass - 01/17/13
PRN host, Caryn Hartglass. Caryn is a vegan and the founder of REAL (Responsible Eating and Living), an organization that delivers easy to use, factual information and services on the benefits of whole, plant-based foods and planet-friendly products. We thought it would be a wonderful experience to have each other on each other’s show. This [...]
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iEat Green - Leah Retherford - 01/10/13
Leah Retherford is thefarmmanager at theQueens CountyFarmMuseum, a historical publicfarmin Floral Park, Queens. She started gardening with friends in Detroit at Birdtown Community garden. This led to working for the Garden Resource Program in different capacities involving urban agriculture and to attending Michigan State’s OrganicFarmerTraining program. In 2009 she moved to New York City and [...]
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iEat Green - Seed to Salad with Peter Burke - 12/27/12
My guest today was Peter Burke, an avid gardener and author of the new book, Indoor Gardening, Seed to Salad in Seven Days. Peter has been teaching gardening classes in Vermont, for the past 7 years, and decided to write this book, to share his passion and excitement about how easy it is to grow [...]
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iEat Green - Travis Slagle - 12/20/12
My guest this week on the Progressive Radio Network is Travis Slagle, the Horticultural Therapy Director for Pacific Quest, an outdoor therapy program on the Big Island in Hawaii. I first heard of Travis from a friend who sent their daughter to Pacific Quest. She kept referring to him as the “Garden Guru,” which is [...]
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iEat Green - Danielle Nierenberg, Nourishing the Planet...
Danielle Nierenberg is co-founder of FoodTank: The Food Think Tank. She is an expert on sustainable agriculture and food issues. She recently spent two years traveling to more than 35 countries across sub-Saharan Africa and Asia looking at environmentally sustainable ways of alleviating hunger and poverty.Her knowledge of global agriculture issues has been cited widely [...]
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iEat Green - Kim O’Donnell - 12/06/12
Kim O’Donnel – Author: Canning Across America, The Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook and The Meat Lover’s Meatless Celebrations For more than a decade, journalist and chef Kim O’Donnel has dispensed cooking advice at numerous publications, including The Washington Post, Culinate and USA Today. Her first book, The Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook, was published in 2010. The [...]
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iEat Green - Karen Washington, Urban Farmer - 11/29/12
Karen Washington has lived in New York City all her life, and has been a resident of the Bronx for over 26 years. Since 1985 Karen has been a community activist, striving to make the New York City a better place to live. As a community gardener and board member of the New York Botanical [...]
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iEat Green - Color Me Vegan - 11/15/12
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau is an exhilarating speaker, a powerful writer, a talented chef, and a persuasive advocate whose success can be measured by the thousands of people whose lives have been changed by her compassionate message. With a master’s degree in English literature and a command of traditional and new media, Patrick-Goudreau fosters change whether she [...]
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iEat Green - Clean Food Earth - 10/25/12
After years of working in the corporate world, Kathleen went back to college to follow her passion. This past May, she graduated Magna cum Laude from Stony Brook University, with an Environmental Humanities Degree in the Sustainability Studies Program. She specialized in Food Policy, Advocacy & Education. She now works for Jeffrey Smith and The Institute [...]
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iEat Green - Rock ‘n Renew - 10/18/12
Rock ’n Renew is a non-profit organization that helps musicians, students, and their communities live and act in sustainable ways. Recognizing the connection between the health of culture and the health of the planet, Rock’n Renew uses art and music to generate excitement about green solutions as they custom-design eco-blueprints for concert tours, schools, businesses, [...]
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iEat Green - Wild Fermentation - 10/11/12
Sandor Ellix Katz is a self-taught fermentation experimentalist. He wrote Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods—which Newsweek called “the fermenting bible”—in order to share the fermentation wisdom he had learned, and demystify home fermentation. Since the book’s publication in 2003, Katz has taught hundreds of fermentation workshops across North America and [...]
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iEat Green - The Backyard Homestead - 08/08/12
This week, my guest is author and homesteader, Carleen Madigan. Before becoming an editor at Storey Publishing, Carleen was managing editor of Horticulture magazine and lived on an organic farm outside Boston, Massachusetts, where she learned the homesteading skills described in her book: The Backyard Homestead: Produce All The Food You Need on Just a [...]
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iEat Green - SustainAbility Farm - 08/01/12
My guest this week will be Wendy Kaplan, founder of SustainAbility Farm, a one-acre farm at the Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park in Oyster Bay, Long Island. The farm was started as a way for Wendy’s daughter, Rachel who is autistic to get her independence. Wendy & Rachel come six days a week. They [...]
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iEat Green - Roger Doiron - 07/25/12
Roger Doiron is a garden activist, writer, speaker and founder of Kitchen Gardeners International, a network of over 25,000 people from 100 countries who are growing their own food and helping others to do the same. He is best known for having started and led the successful online campaign for a new kitchen garden at [...]
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iEat Green - Bronx Vegetables - 07/18/12
My guest this week will be Stephen Ritz. Stephen is an acclaimed NYC DOE educator/administrator whose work in the Bronx continues to attract national attention and support. To date, he has grown more than 20,000 pounds of Bronx vegetables with his extended Bronx Family - the youngest certified workforce in America - who operate a [...]
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iEat Green - Green The Ghetto - 07/11/12
This week, my guest is Majora Carter. Majora is an economic consultant, public radio host and environmental justice advocate from the South Bronx area of New York City. By 2003, Majora coined the term: “Green The Ghetto” as she pioneered one of the nation’s first urban green-collar job training & placement systems, and spearheaded legislation [...]
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iEat Green - 07/04/12
This week, my guest is Brett Tolley. Brett is the Community Organizer and Policy Advocate for the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA). He works to empower local fishing communities and highlight the triple-bottom-line values of locally caught seafood. The Northwest Atlantic Alliance’s mission is to restore and enhance an enduring marine system supporting a healthy [...]
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iEat Green - 06/27/12
Jeff Negron is the owner and operator of The Growing Seed, a for profit business that designs, installs, maintains and harvests vegetable gardens for residential and commercial properties. Four years ago, Jeff started The Growing Seed when he felt that his community would benefit from the services of a business dedicated solely to vegetable and [...]
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iEat Green - 06/20/12
My guest is be Christine Waltermyer. Christine is the founder and director of The Natural Kitchen Cooking School, offering Chef’s Training Programs, personal chef service and in-home cooking classes in Princeton, NJ and Manhattan. She is the author ofThe Natural Vegan Kitchen. With over 15 years of experience in the field of natural cooking, Christine [...]
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iEat Green - 06/13/12
I interview Roberto Romano, the Producer and Director of several important documentaries, including his most recent, The Harvest, which profiles the lives of migrant children farm workers, sacrificing their own childhoods to help their families survive. ___ Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000182 EndHTML:0000006604 StartFragment:0000002558 EndFragment:0000006568 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/PRNG5/Downloads/Raw%20Lemon-Lime%20Pie.doc Raw [...]
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iEat Green - 06/06/12
Kelly D. Carlisle, Founder and Executive Director of Acta Non Verba, is a veteran of the United States Navy and has been the recipient of many awards, including the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal.She is an avid gardener and is a certified Alameda County Master Gardener.She is an active member of the California African-American [...]
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iEat Green - 05/30/12
This week, my guest is Victoria Moran, the author of11 books, as well as an inspirational speaker, monologist, and certified holistic health counselor (HHC, AADP). She is the founder of Main Street Vegan Academy, where she trains vegan lifestyle coaches. Victoria’s latest book isMain Street Vegan, which we discuss during the show. Savory Pinto Beans with [...]
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iEat Green - 05/16/12
My guest will be Rachel Kaplan,lead author of Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living. She is a pioneering therapist in the field of Eco-Somatics (an ecological approach to the body-mind connection in regards to movement), an educator, and widely published author. Roasted Tempeh and Broccoli with Walnut Sauce Pre-heat oven to 400* 1 package 3-Grain Tempeh 1 Tbs. [...]
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iEat Green - 05/09/12
This week, Richard Oppenlander, author of the new book Comfortably Unaware, joins me on my show. Dr. Oppenlander is a sustainability and wellness advocate, writer, and speaker committed to improving the health of our planet, bringing an eclectic combination of experiences regarding this topic, spanning the past 40 years.
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iEat Green - 05/02/12
Nick Brannigan is a consumer advocate who offers solutions that can help you to rid your life and body of Genetically Modified Foods. He is a trained speaker through the Institute of Responsible Technology with frequent speaking engagements around Las Vegas and features on Natural News TV. Nick has written a free online eBook [...]
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iEat Green - 04/25/12
I interview LaDonna Redmond, a food activist and an inspirational speaker. I first met LaDonna at Shelburne Farms, while I was attending the Farm to Cafeteria conference. As the keynote speaker, LaDonna managed to bring humor and laughs into a serious talk about social justice and our food system.
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iEat Green - 04/18/12
My guest is Julie Grimm, an avid skier, yogi and horsewoman, wife, and working mother of two daughters based in Golden, Colo. Although she is not a food activist, chef, or farmer, I believe she has an experience and a product that can help many of my listeners, so I am welcoming her onto my [...]
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iEat Green - 04/11/12
Guest: Ann Cooper who will be one of our keynote speakers at The Small Farm Summit this Saturday! Chef Ann Cooper is a celebrated author, chef, educator, and enduring advocate for better food for all children. In a nation where children are born with shorter estimated life expectancies than their parents because of diet-related illness, [...]
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iEat Green - 04/04/12
My guest tomorrow will be Beatriz Beckford. She is the school food reform coordinator for the Brooklyn Food Coalition and has eight years of community organizing, education, advocacy, and activism experience, including work with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and the Citizens Committee of NYC. Her vision for engagement, building consensus, and connecting the struggles [...]
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iEat Green - 03/28/12
Interview with pharmacist Sharon Thompson.
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iEat Green - 03/21/12
My guest is Scott Chaskey. Scott is a farmer, poet and an educator.He has worked as poet-in-residence in numerous schools and museums, in the U.S. and in England, and for over twenty years he has taught poetry to children of all ages.Employed by the Peconic Land Trust as a steward of land, he has farmed [...]
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iEat Green - 03/14/12
My guest is Bill Telepan, owner of the Telepan Restaurant. Bill is one of New York’s first and most acclaimed devotees of Greenmarket cooking. He is committed to showcasing the season’s bounty through his cuisine. Bill insists on understanding where his ingredients come from, how they’ve been cared for and using the best of what [...]
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iEat Green - 03/07/12
Debra Eschmeyer is the co-founder and director of policy and partnerships forFoodCorps, a national nonprofit organization that seeks to address the trend of childhood obesity and diet-related disease by increasing vulnerable children’s knowledge of, engagement with, and access to healthy food, while preparing the next generation of leaders for careers in food, health, and agriculture. Eschmeyer [...]
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Julie Negrin julie@julienegrin.com Julie Negrin, M.S., is a certified nutritionist, cooking instructor, and author ofEasy Meals to Cook with Kids. She has been teaching adults and children how to cook for fourteen years. Julie is currently working for The Sylvia Center as the Director of Education and writing curriculum for The Cooking Room. Julie spent [...]
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Guest: Sarah Gabriel Sarah Gabriel is an author, educator and the managing Director at The Home Grown Institute – organizing community-centered, skills-focused, action-driven events that teach home-scaled sustainable and regenerative practices. She is also helping organize theHomegrown, “Springing Good Intentions into Action” Conference on March 24th-25th. Gluten-Free, Dairy Free, Blueberry Banana Muffins Preheat oven to 350* 2 cups [...]
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In a career that spans five decades, 22 albums and three Grammy awards, multi-talented singer-songwriter-guitarist Tom Chapin has covered an incredible amount of creative ground. In addition to his work as a recording artist and concert performer, Chapin has acted on Broadway, as well as working extensively in television, radio and films. Chapin’s latest family [...]
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Joan Dye Gussow, Mary Swartz Rose Professor Emerita and former chair of the Columbia Teachers College, Nutrition Education Program, lives, writes, and grows organic vegetables on the west bank of the Hudson River. Long retired, until this year she continued to teach her popular nutritional ecology course at TC every fall. Her service includes two termsJoan [...]
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SALLY FALLON MORELL is the author of Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats, with Mary G. Enig, PhD as co-author. This thought -provoking book contains a surprising message: saturated fat and cholesterol are not enemies but play vital roles in human biochemistry. Fallon Morell is the foundingpresidentof the non- [...]
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Guest: David Haight Since joining American Farmland Trust in 2001, David Haight has worked with more than 20 local governments to establish agricultural economic development and farmland protection plans. He aids state and federal legislators as they work on agricultural and land conservation legislation and has helped coordinate projects that have permanently protected more than 4,000 [...]
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Guest: Veronica Gordon Veronica Gordon runs the only Vegetarian, Vegan and Raw food restaurant in Puerto Viejo (a small town on the Caribbean Coast) called Veronica’s Place. Her parents were naturalists, and she grew up learning about medicinal remedies using fresh herbs, fruits and vegetables to help cure allergies and sickness. She will share some [...]
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Guest: Jaimie P. Cloud - The Cloud Institute Jaimie P. Cloud, the founder & president of The Cloud Institute. The Cloud Institute prepares K-12 school systems and their communities to educate for a sustainable future by inspiring educators and engaging students through meaningful content and learner-centered instruction. Jaimie works extensively with educators, administrators, and school boards across [...]
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Guests: Bart and Joy Pierson Since 1988, Bart and his partner Joy Pierson have created three successful vegetarian dining establishments. Candle Cafe was the first restaurant to be certified by the Green Restaurant Association and both restaurants are at the forefront of campaigns to green the restaurant industry. The most recent is Candle 79, one of [...]
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Guest: Jonathan Bloom Jonathan Bloom is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe. His book, American Wasteland, looks at how we waste food from farm to fork and examines the impact of our squandering. In his blog, Wasted Food, Jonathan writes about why we waste [...]
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Guest: Deborah Merlin Deborah Merlin’s mission was to become an advocate for her special needs twins. Medical professionals only offered drugs. She sought alternative methods, did extensive ADHD and other health-related research, and kept impeccable records. In 1993, she co-chaired the Westside Cities Council to help promote Public Law 99457, part H, to implement early [...]
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Guest: Frances Moore Lappe Frances Moore Lapp is the author of eighteen books, including the just-released EcoMind, Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want (Nation Books) and the three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet. She is the cofounder of three organizations, including Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy [...]
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Guest: Jay Weinstein. Jay Weinstein, a chef trained at the Culinary Institute of America, is a New York based food writer, editor, culinary instructor, and author of three culinary books. His food articles and recipes have been featured in The New York Times, Travel & Leisure, Newsday, Time Out New York, National Geographic Traveler, and numerous [...]
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Guest: Ellen Jaffe Jones Ellen, “The Veg Coach”, is a personal trainer, running coach, author, and teacher of healthy cooking classes designed by respected doctors and registered dieticians. She is the author ofEat Vegan on $4 a Day, a guide to eating healthy and delicious plant-based meals for no more than $4 a day per [...]
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Ellen, “The Veg Coach”, is a personal trainer, running coach, author, and teacher of healthy cooking classes designed by respected doctors and registered dieticians. She is the author of Eat Vegan on $4 a Day, a guide to eating healthy and delicious plant-based meals for no more than $4 a day per person. Todays Recipe: Red [...]
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Karen Ranzi is a lecturer, raw food consultant, and author of Creating Healthy Children: Through Attachment Parenting and Raw Foods. Karen has presented at numerous seminars, schools, festivals and health institutes throughout the United States on raising healthy children. She is a writer for Raw Mom Times, Vibrance Magazine, and Get Fresh Magazine of the [...]
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Guest: Joshua Kahn Russell Joshua Kahn Russell is an organizer, facilitator, civil disobedience coordinator, campaigner, and trainer with the Ruckus Society. He has trained thousands of activists, and currently is a national organizer with Tar Sands Action, a campaign to stop the Keystone XL pipeline. He is the author of Organizing Cools the Planet, and works [...]
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Guest: Nancy Romer Nancy Romer is the General Coordinator of the Brooklyn Food Coalition. The BFC is a grassroots organization dedicated to the vision of a just and sustainable food system in Brooklyn. The Coalition is fundamentally committed to building an inclusive, multi-racial, multi-cultural alliance of residents and community-based groups from all parts of Brooklyn, [...]
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Guest: Michele Simon Michele Simon is a public health lawyer who has been researching and writing about the food industry and food politics since 1996. She specializes in legal strategies to counter corporate tactics that harm the public’s health. Also an expert in alcohol policy, she is currently research and policy director for the Marin [...]
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Guest Paule T. Pachter, the Executive Director of Long Island Cares, Inc., The Harry Chapin Food Bank in Hauppauge, a leading anti-hunger organization. Mr. Pachter is currently the Chairperson of the Long Island Association’s Not-for-Profit Committee, and a member of the LIA’s Innovate Long Island Team. He is also a member of the Board of [...]
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Guest: Dan Kittredge Dan is director of the Real Food Campaign and past executive director of Remineralize the Earth. As the son of two prominent leaders in the organic farming movement, Dan has been an organic farmer since childhood. He manages two organic farms currently, and has worked directly with farmers in Central America, Russia and [...]
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Guest: Jon Stephanian Jon Stephanian is the co-founder of Long Island Food Not Bombs, the largest Food Not Bombs chapter in the country. Food Not Bombs is a volunteer movement that coordinates the sharing of free groceries with thousands of people each week. Jon works to organize hundreds of volunteers confronting social issues that include poverty, [...]
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