New Children’s Hospital of Chicago — Amazing Story Honoring Children’s Advisory Board
I finally got to take a break and attended a Chicago Ideas Week's event at the new Children's Hospital, designed through a collaboration with the Children's Advisory Board made up of patients ages…
Scary Sugar – Presented by: DaBears…Nice Video!
Sometimes it helps to be entertained while we are choking down the truth about sugar. Hey, I love the taste too, but these are the affects of sugar on our…
CNN Health: Military Leaders: We’re Still Too Fat To Fight
September 25th, 2012 09:02 AM ET Military leaders: We're still too fat to fight Childhood obesity isn't just a health issue, according to a group of retired military leaders. It's also a national security issue. One in four young adults…
CanUDigIt.org Shares FoodDay Stories at FarmAid’s Home Grown Village Sept 22 Hershey PA.
October 03, 2012 I am so happy to have been invited to be part of Farm Aids' Home Grown Village in Hershey, PA September 22. It was pretty last minute and after attending Farm Aid as a concert-goer for years, it was…
Vote Today! Our Town, Our Heros Driving the Midwest Campaign by GMC Announces Jeannette Kravitz In The Final Running
VOTE HERE!!!! www.drivingthemidwest.com/ Sometimes the most amazing things happen. This has been a true experience when my friend Angela Roos and I worked helping a neighborhood with a local garden in the inner city in Chicago…
PETITION: Think It’s Time for A Healthy School Lunch Mandate for Chicago Students? Sign Up Now.
OCTOBER IS FOOD MONTH. We Are Taking Our Advocacy to The Web And Asking for Your Help! For everyone who has known our work, you know that advocating for nutrition education in schools and healthy foods as a human right is at the heart of our…
Heading for FarmAid. Join us at #CanUDigItorg TweetChat Sat 12-4 EST
CANUDigIt.org Campaign Welcomed at Home Grown Village, FARMAID 2012, Hershey Pennsylvania Wow, it's been since 2002 that I have been to FarmAid! What a difference 10 years makes! From working since 2000 on Peace issues with bands like…
Growing Chicago Gardens Morganway Community Garden Chicago; GMC & Neighborhood Space
Growing Chicago Gardens – sponsored by GMC & NeighborSpace. September 12, 2012 We proudly were part of this fun day of planting, where volunteers like us came out to travel to Lowes Garden store, picking up beautiful arbors, planter…
Lawyers From Suits Against Big Tobacco Target Food Makers
Jim Wilson/The New York Times Christine Sturges, a hairdresser from California, is one of the plaintiffs in a suit against ConAgra involving its Pam cooking spray.By STEPHANIE STROM Don Barrett, a Mississippi lawyer, took in hundreds of…
Indiegogo Campaign Launch
Our new Indiegogo Campaign is underway. Take a look and please share with everyone on your network. Your donations will go a long way to making CanUDigIt a huge…
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OurECOWorld.org Presents a Social Impact Event FOR MORE INFORMATION: Jeannette T. Kravitz, Executive Director sponsorKIDS Charities 501c3 Est,2000 (312)560-‐0053 Spnsrkids@aol.com Dates: September 6th; Events October…
TED CROWD SOURCING the New Millennium Goals: Jamie Drummond
Remember Y2K? Jamie Drummond starts by taking us back to the most anticipated year in human history: 2000. “Remember that? Y2k, the dotcom bubble… the deep-down inchoate yearning that our millennium moment should mean more than a two and some…
Food (In)Security: Access Equity Frameworks
Have you seen this amazing report? Food (In)Security: Access, Equity, Frameworks http://cis.uchicago.edu/events/2011-2012/food-insecurity-series A CIS Spring Quarter series addressing the increasingly serious problem of global food…
ChicagoLIVE: We are Looking for Musicians for our Big FOOD Day event 2012…and Look at What I found
Listen to this Amazing Band! ChicagoLIVE Great Local Band Does Anyone Know their Name? Listen here Rick Kogan Chicago Tribune and Chicago Live, hosted a great event last night where this group of 'house music' musicians and singers performed.…
TribuneNation: The Status of Women in Chicago
This week I had the pleasure of attending The Status of Women in Chicago, hosted by TribNation's Bruce Dodd & Melissa Harris, and panelists Christine Bork(YWCA), and comedian and actress Nora Dunn (SaturdayNight Live) fame ...(see photo…
The Earth Institute Columbia University on Reduction of Child Deaths in Sub Saharan Africa
http://www.millenniumvillages.org/field-notes/child-mortality-declines-sharply-in-millennium-villages Approximately one in eight children dies before the age of 5 in sub-Saharan Africa – a rate that has been declining, but is still nearly 20…
Lobbyists’ Influence Thins Out Efforts to Battle Child Obesity
Last week, we showcased our work at the WBEZ Global Activism Expo for healthy eating and healthy school lunch advocacy in Chicago and around the globe. May 2nd this Rueter's Article was pretend in the biz-section of the Chicago Tribune.…
PEW Charitable Trust Human Health & Industrial Farming
Step By Step -----drumstick by…
New York Time: How the Food Industry Eats Your Kids Lunch
This article spells out how big business is controlling the system of school lunches in America. This system is broken. I would love to hear from others on ideas to fix it. How The Food Industry Eats Your Kids Lunch December…
Stephanie Izard & Jeannette Meet at Book Signing for Her Book, Girl In The Kitchen!
I was so excited to meet Stephanie Izard and learn about her book Girl In The Kitchen! So much so that I would up asking her to sign a book for my daughter for cooking inspiration! Stephanie is delightful and so knowledgable and I can't wait to…
