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Green Drinks NYC June 2008 Newsletter
WHAT: Every month people who work in the environmental field meet for a
drink at networking events known as Green Drinks - it's a chance to mix
 with
other like-minded people, share info and make friends.

Come enjoy a complimentary Chipotle taco bar, seasonal fresh fruits and
 veggies,
snacks, and an open bar with a wide variety of organic signature
cocktails, beer,
and wine as you network with other environmental enthusiasts along the
East river.

WHEN: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 from 6 - 10pm - bring business cards.

WHERE: A different place each month. Join us this month to kick off the
 summer
outdoors at Solar One, the city's first solar-powered "Green Energy,
 Arts, and
Education Center." Located at 23rd Street on the East River, take the
 (L) or (6)
train or the M23 bus. See map for directions.

COST: $20 - open bar.

BONUS:  Bring your electric bill to sign up for Wind Power and get $10
 off.

HOW: Walk, cycle, bus, subway, or take a taxi (ok if more than two
 passengers).

REMIND: To get on this circulation, SIGN UP RIGHT HERE.

SPONSOR: Get out in front of the green movers and shakers - Sponsor an
 event!
Contact us at: nycgreendrinks@gmail.com. Volunteer opportunities also
 available.

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 THIS EVENT IS MADE POSSIBLE BY OUR FABULOUS SPONSOR:

Keep Reading there is a ton more events listed here

Killing of Mansanto

had a great idea the other day! Lets start our own conspiracy!!!!!!!!!!
Instead of everyone giving donations to Green and Ecco groups to fight Monsanto and pay for political counter action, give all that money to one organization that pays farmers to NOT buy Monsanto seeds. We instead pay them to grow what we want them to grow. If we gave each farmer $100,000 a year simply as an incentive, they could still grow whatever it is they are growing, do business, sell there produce and make what they would make as an Organic former. The 100 Gs would be a payoff to pull them out of the system and away from corporate and government intervention. With the added subsidized income the price of Organic could also be dropped so more people could afford it and choose organic over conventional. Instead of fighting these huge companies with hug money, we simply took their customers away from them. What would happen if no one bought from them any more, they simply had no customers? How much power do they have in a world that has no need for them? What if we carried that concept across the board. It is too difficult, too expensive and too futile to battle the big money and power of government and corporate giants. Isn't it easier to just do business without them?
If 200,000 people paid $500 a year, thats $41.66 a month, then that could pay 1000 farmers across the US $100.000.00per yr. to do business as an Organic produce producer.
OK so we start with 100 farmers, then 1000, then 10,000…
Each farmer could agree to be part of the program they would pay back into the program 5 or 10% of income generated from the sales of their produce. They still get the 1000Gs a year as members. The whole thing could work like a nationwide co-op. Members pay a yearly fee, like say $500 and then get a discount on any item you purchase that is subsidized by the program. Oh do I hear a name in there? NSSOC the National Subsidized Sustainable Organics Co-Op. Celeb Events, concerts, Rallies est. could raise money and public awareness to build the program. Feeding more money into the program to recruit more members both farmers and public supporters. How about if it even has its own Organic certification standards. Why not bypass the whole US Certified Organic BS. That way we could exclude the Wal-Mart’s and the likes from the program. I can see it now; produce on the shelves’ with NSSOC stickers on them. F~*k the system we just create our own produce.

What do you think?

what is an "Organic" restaurant anywhay?

This morning I saw a post on www.chowhound.com. Some one was asking about a good “Organic” restaurant, that their mother was visiting and wanted to "try" and Organic restaurant. As I started posting a reply, I began to think about what an Organic restaurant meant. What is an Organic restaurant and what would be the motivation for people to go to such a place? So this was my reply:

Oh without a doubt Quintessence www.raw-q.com would be my first choice. I find it funny though how we blindly go for "Organic"; I guess to be healthier but Organic doesn't allways have to do with being healthy. You can have "Organic" Poison Ivy it doesn't mean it's healthy. Processed packaged imitation meals that are Organic are just as crappy as anything else. Most Vegetarian and certainly simply "Organic" restaurants often use terrible ingredients in their food and pay no attention to what is biologically healthy. The other thing is, to say you want to try an "Organic restaurant" as if it would be any different than a non organic is an oversight. If you are having your steak dinner and the potatoes and salad are organic the recipes and the food in the restaurant is still the basically the same, it just was grown organically. It really would not taste  all that different. Vegetarian restaurants on the other hand use very little vegetables and fill you up on starch (which is not even food) like rice and beans, potato, carrot, pasta, bread, Seitan / wheat gluten, moc this, moc that, all of which are very unhealthy and have no real nutrients. Even unfermented soy, like tofu or soy milk is not the best thing to eat and are full of Phytoestrogens and chemicals. (Phytoestrogens and Cancer) If you want to "try" something that is different, healthy and ultimately very tasty (Fresh is always better) try Organic raw foods. Don't fall for the propaganda and eat something real, your taste buds and your body will thank you.

 

 

"Why She Never Eats Bananas, and Why I Do"

I saw this today and thought it was a great follow up to my post on Bananas.

This is from Roger Haeske blog Supperbeings Secrets. It read as follows:

I met a very nice person a while back named Gina. We've been corresponding a bit via email as well. She's very excited about raw foods, but as is usually the case, she has been given lots of false information on which she's basing her dietary decisions.
In fact, she reminds me of myself about 10 years ago. I thought I knew a lot about nutrition. But I was filled with a bunch of unsound and unscientific information from the popular raw food and general diet books out there.

Of course, it was just such misinformation that made me fail on the raw food diet over and over again. Without the right information and support, most people are going to make a ton of mistakes and then wrongly blame it all on the raw food diet.

Compared to most people, even back then, I was a nutrition expert, but compared to what I know now, I was like in the third grade of nutritional school. I remember talking about nutrition and having this guy who overheard my conversation think I was a diet expert and that was over 11 years ago before I'd succeeded at staying 100% raw.

If he was fooled by my level of misinformation at that time, imagine how many people get constantly fooled by scientific sounding arguments in popular nutrition books.

Just because a doctor says it's right, it should be right. And yet most of the doctors contradict each other like crazy in these books. So being a doctor or scientist is not the only criterion to look for when judging the information you read.

Gina mentioned in a previous email that she would never eat bananas. I asked her to explain to me why she wouldn't. Below is her brief reply to me and my detailed explanation to her.

Much of her information is based on a popular diet book called "The pH Miracle." You have to be really careful with what you read because it can really lead you down the wrong path.

When you are new and inexperienced to nutrition and diet books it's very easy to be taken and overly swayed by the scientific sounding arguments. But many of these books are made up of half-truths and not based on facts. Or if they are based on facts, they only give you a small part of the nutritional picture, which doesn't work in real life.

I know what I teach works because I've seen the amazing results in hundreds of people. It has transformed my life and that of my coaching clients. Also the Optimal Raw Food Diet makes the most common sense.

I simply use facts and studies to help to convince you that what I'm saying makes sense. In the end, you'll know simply by trying it and seeing for yourself. Don't just take my word for it. Do your own experimentation and research.

This book, "The pH Miracle" isn't even a raw food book. So why would anyone want to base a raw food diet on this book? This book will make it very hard for you to stay raw and to do so in a healthy manner because it will scare you from eating most fruit. But it does so with incorrect information.

How could this book be so good if this author doesn't understand the hundreds of thousands of toxins that are created in the cooking process? Toxins, carcinogens, and mutagens have been proven by science to be created by the cooking process. Even steaming does horrible damage to food. Seems to me his knowledge is a bit lacking.

I do believe there is quite a bit of valuable information in this book, but you have to weed out the inaccurate information from the good information. This therefore leads to confusion and therefore failure with the raw food diet.

Someone who doesn't have a deep background in nutritional science won't be able to detect the truth from the fiction. This is even true of many of the so-called raw food gurus who support this book.

** Here's Her Email To Me **

 

Pharmaceuticals in U.S. Tap Water

Would You Like Drugs With That?
Pharmaceuticals in U.S. Tap Water
Antibiotics, sex hormones, and other prescription drugs contaminate drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, according to a 5-month investigation by the Associated Press.

What's in your water?
Use EWG's National Tap Water Quality database.

How'd the drugs get there? When people take pills, their bodies absorb some of the medication, but the rest of it is flushed down the toilet. Water treatment plants aren't designed to remove pharmaceutical residues, so they stay in the water.
What you can do:

• learn more about drugs in tap water

• find out what else is in your water in EWG's Tap Water Database

• use a reverse osmosis filtration system to remove many chemicals (though we're still investigating which filtration systems remove pharmaceuticals - stay tuned for more info)

• contact your Senators and Representatives to demand stricter oversight 

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What's in your   water?
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Caution salmonella outbreak linked to cantaloupes

There is a salmonella outbreak linked to cantaloupes imported from Honduras, according to an FDA News alert. NY1 News warns consumers to check the country of origin when buying cantaloupes. The FDA news release gives the specific name of the grower and packer. These are probably not organic, but I myself will buy thick-rinded produce or those fruits and vegetables not associated with significant levels of pesticide in the flesh (e.g. avocados, bananas, and, I decided, cantaloupes).

The FDA release also gives valuable hints about buying any cantaloupe right now.

See also the USDA's Web site for safe fresh produce preparation protocol and instruction, the link is on their home page (probably http://www.usda.gov).

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Raw porridge

So I have been getting into breakfast lately.
Normally I don’t do breakfast; I usually just have a juice or a salad till late afternoon. Recently though, maybe do to the depressing and cold weather we've been having, I have been craving my childhood staples, especially breakfast. One of my favorites in the dead of winter was hot cereals like Oatmeal, Cream of Wheat, Wheatina, Farina, Cream of Rice…, porridge to be precise. Now days being all raw, I don’t eat any of those so I needed to find some kind of alternative and BAM, I created the perfect solution. Take some golden flax and grind it in your blender or coffee grinder into a powder. Now crush some walnuts or pecans. Leave some nuts chunky and completely mashes the rest. Mix them up about 50/50 flax to nuts. Put ¼ cup of the mixture in a bowl and stir in ¾ cup water; stir with a fork constantly to avoid clumping. Add ¼ tsp sea salt and 1 tsp vanilla (not the cheap stuff). You can use warm water if you want warm cereal. That’s it now you can add cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, top with fruit, berries, more nuts, dried fruits, honey or agave, and even top off with some fresh nut-milk. Try it, you will love it because you can make it whatever flavor you like; it’s yours! I also made it with some Spectrum Essential Ground Organic Flax seed with Lingans, Fiber, Omega-3 EFA and Protein. This made a really hearty tasting cereal. Good stuff.

What do you do that could be generating power

there are also water transport gyms in the works. Check out this page: http://www.archinode.com/gym.html