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LA ‘Meatless Mondays’: Los Angeles City Council Endorses Healthier Eating Habits
From the City Council that declared war on trans-fats and fast-food restaurants comes the latest way to make residents feel, well, guilty about what they eat. The Los Angeles council, in a 14-0 vote on Friday, adopted a resolution urging residents to adopt a personal pledge to have a "meatless Monday." While it does not have the force of law and police will not be checking what you brought to work for lunch, city officials said they hope it will start a trend, make residents healthier and reduce the impact on the environment.
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EarthEcho CEO Philippe Cousteau Interviewed on Go Green Radio
EarthEcho International president and CNN International Correspondent Philippe Cousteau and CBK Associates’ Cathryn Berger Kaye recently conducted an interview with Go Green Radio host Jill Buck. The podcast focuses on What’s On Your Fork, a new series of EarthEcho International resources that helps educators and students explore the environmental and community impact of daily food choices as they consider implementing a Meatless Monday campaign. Listen to the podcast at http://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/58454/cnn-international-correspondent-philippe-cousteaus-new-food-education-program. To download the free What’s On Your Fork? Action Guide, visit www.WaterPlanetChallenge.org.
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EARTHECHO INTERNATIONAL LAUNCHES FOOD-FOCUSED WHAT’S ON YOUR FORK? ACTION GUIDE
Does what you eat really have impact on our planet? Could mealtime choices actually help promote clean drinking water? What’s On Your Fork? is a new free downloadable Action Guide and collection of supplementary educational tools from EarthEcho International designed to help educators and students explore the environmental and community impact of daily food choices. This new resource is part of EarthEcho’s Water Planet Challenge, a web-based interactive program exploring a myriad of topics that engage and empower middle and high school-aged youth to design, create and implement service-learning projects in their communities.
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Everything You Do Makes a Difference, What You Eat
A New Dirty Dozen
Every summer, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) releases its annual list of the Dirty Dozen; the 12 most pesticide-contaminated fruits and vegetables. You can even download a handy little card listing the Dirty Dozen that fits neatly in your wallet. EWG estimates that individuals can reduce their pesticide exposure by 80% if they switch to organic when buying these 12 foods. By eating organic fruits and vegetables you: Reduce the amount of harmful pesticides and artificial chemicals you expose you and your family to; Increase your intake of natural antioxidants (called flavonoids) found in fruits and vegetables; Support agriculture that increases the health of our soil and water, which in turn grows more vitamin and mineral rich foods. Researchers have found that organic fruits and vegetables are higher in natural anti-oxidants than conventionally grown fruits and vegetables. Large conventional …
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EarthEcho Updates, Events, Water Planet Challenge, Everything You Do Makes a Difference, What You Eat
Meatless Mondays coming to Water Planet Challenge this Fall
EarthEcho International is excited to announce that we will be working with Meatless Mondays to develop our next Water Planet Challenge Action Guide. This resource will be available in September. In the meantime, check out our other Action Guides. They can all be downloaded for free from the box on the right.
