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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

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, [...]

iEat Green - 03/28/12

Interview with pharmacist Sharon Thompson.

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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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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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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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: 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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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: 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: 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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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: 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 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: 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, [...]