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

iEat Green Shares Salad Making Skills with the Folks at Orkestai Farm; Pascale Naessens, Belgium Chef and Author of “Pure Pascale, Pure and Simple” Joins Bhavani on PRN

Posted on August 16, 2017

Hi Everybody, Today I had the pleasure of sharing my passion for cooking and eating real foods with the Orkestai Farm community. I was asked to come to the farm and demonstrate easy recipes that could be made from the … Read More

Posted in Eating Green with Bhavani Tagged with: #cooking demo, #GMO's, #no carbohydrates with protein, #north shore land alliance, #Orkestai Farm, #Pascale Naessens, #Pure and Simple, #Pure Pascale, #Transparencey in food production

Demand Clean Air NOW; Stop Construction of Pipelines and Help to Resist Big Oil; Together We Can Move Away From Fracking; Label GMO’S; Protect Bees from Pesticides

Posted on August 8, 2017

Keep Clean Air a Priority for Our Children and the Earth: Take Action NOW Earlier this month, a federal court of appeals blocked a 90-day stay of certain parts of the rule, but the EPA is still trying to implement … Read More

Posted in Take Action Tagged with: #child safety, #children's health, #consumers right to know, #Dakota pipeline, #DARK act, #GMO's, #keystone KL Pipeline, #label gmo, #methane, #new york times, #pollutants epa, #scott pruitt

iEat Green Takes a Look at the Disparity in Health Care and Birth Outcomes in Our Wealthy Country; Members of the Foundation for the Advancement of Midwifery Join Bhavani on PRN

Posted on June 20, 2017

Hi Everyone, Over the years, I have spent a lot of time talking about our broken food system, and how the lack of access to healthy food in many poor communities effects the health and education of the children living … Read More

Posted in Eating Green with Bhavani Tagged with: #birthing experience, #broken food system, #disparities in health care, #environmental impact, #FAM, #Foundation for the Advancement of Midwifery, #fracking, #GMO's, #home birth, #industrial agriculture, #infant deaths, #infant mortality rate, #Kristin Effland, #lack of access to healthy food, #life expectancy, #postnatal care, #prenatal care, #Progressive Radio Network, #racial and ethnic disparities, #Save the Children, #Tamara Wrenn, #The Business of Being Born, #toxic wastes

Your Guide to GMOs 2.0; Sweets or No Sweets; Beyond the Kale: Urban Ag and Social Justice Book Published

Posted on October 25, 2016

Your Guide to GMOs 2.0 Last week, we signed a petition sent to the National Organic Standards Board (you can still sign here!) urging them to explicitly remove ‘genetically engineering and gene editing techniques’ from the standards for ‘Organic’ because certain highly processed foods still … Read More

Posted in In The News Tagged with: #artificial sweeteners, #beyond the kale, #community gardens, #consumers union, #cuny school, #Genetically Engineered, #gmo 2.0, #GMO's, #health risks, #healthwash, #public health, #sugar, #sugary drinks, #urban agriculture

iEat Green Supports the Slow Food Movement and Interviews Filmmaker Costa Boutsikaris about “Inhabit”

Posted on September 6, 2016

Hi All, This month, Slow Food USA is launching their annual membership drive, encouraging everyone who is interested in the Slow Food movement, to come on board and help support the important work that Slow Food USA does. I remember … Read More

Posted in Eating Green with Bhavani Tagged with: #antibiotics and hormones in our food, #Costa Boutsikaris, #culture, #documentary film, #ecological approach, #economy, #Emmett Brennan, #fair labor issues, #filmmaker, #food, #GMO's, #Inhabit, #medicine, #over fishing, #Pay What you Can, #permaculture, #pesticides and herbicides, #preserving biodiversity, #slaughter houses, #slow food north shore, #Slow Food USA, #sustainable agriculture, #transparency, #water

Take Action: Call Your Senators to Say No to the DARK Act 2.0; Tell Your Representatives to Pass the WATER Act; Tell Tyson to Stop Polluting our Water

Posted on July 5, 2016

Call Your Senators to Say No to the DARK Act 2.0 The July 1st deadline for Vermont’s GMO labeling law has passed, but that doesn’t mean our work is done. The Food Babe has a great explanation here as to why … Read More

Posted in Take Action Tagged with: #American public, #animal abuse, #chicken farming, #DARK act, #donation, #Factory Farming, #federal labeling, #fishkills, #food industry, #GMO labeling, #GMO's, #lead pipes, #lobbying, #Monsanto, #OCA, #Organic Consumer Association, #Organic Trade Association, #pollutants, #public interest, #Senator Debbie Stabenow, #Senator Pat Roberts, #tyson, #Vermont, #water, #WATER Act, #waterways

iEat Green Brings Healthy Cooking Demo to Nassau Community College, Planting in Accordance to the Moon Cycles, and An Interview with Catherine Gill, Sr. VP of Root Capital

Posted on May 2, 2016

Hi Everyone, As Spring takes hold of the season, our calendar is quickly filling up! Last week, I did a presentation of “One Wok, Three Meals” for the students and faculty at NCC, to demonstrate the ease at which one … Read More

Posted in Eating Green with Bhavani Tagged with: #artificial flavors and colors, #Catherine Gill, #communications, #cooking, #Farm to Table, #farmers markets, #GMO's, #Greenwashing, #growing, #investor relations, #local, #marketing, #moon cycle, #organic, #organic certification, #Pesticides, #philanthropy fundraising, #Root Capital, #shopping, #sustainable, #Women in Agriculture Initiative