CALENDAR OF EVENTS 

2010 

Join us at the Coral Gables Congregational Church 

 Vegan* Potluck Dinner Programs

Whether you're just beginning to think about reducing your dependency on animal-products or you've been a complete vegetarian for years, our meetings are designed to be informative, fun and supportive. 

Potluck programs are free to EarthSave members/$5.00 for non-members/children under 12 free. Park in School Lot across street not on adjacent private property.

Everyone should bring a vegan covered dish (*no animal products including fish, dairy, eggs or honey) which serves about eight, and your own plate & utensils. There is a $1.00 eco-fee for us to provide plate/utensils and an $8.00 No Food fee if you arrive empty-handed.

Hakin Hill, owner of Vegetarian Restaurant by Hakin, does not just practice tolerance for all peoples, he embraces and welcomes everyone as part of his family. His intention to change the world to be more compassionate and physically healthier requires seven days of service in and through the confines of this vegan restaurant, which more closely resembles a meeting place or home for people of all ages and all colors. Saturday evenings are reserved for events or films to raise consciousness in the community and to share friendships and healthy vegan food. And yet it seems that the 70 or so hours of "work" that he puts in each week is actually the source of his peace and tranquility. He’s the first to say "it’s not really work … I mean, yes, sometimes it’s tiring, but I am so blessed, truly blessed." Personally, Hakin is a role model for me. Whenever I stop in for the Entrée special or a soup and spinach patty, I enjoy witnessing his attentiveness to detail and his uncanny ability to take his time, speaking sincerely with the patrons, making sure that the meals are enjoyed by all. In this time of economic crisis, Hakin goes out of his way to serve those most in need, either by feeding them, by educating them, or by putting them to work in the restaurant.

Born in the Bronx and later raised by his progressive grandparents in Antigua, Hakin attributes a great deal of his nature to a good start in life. His grandfather, Joseph Tittle, born in 1925, has been very influential, surrounding Hakin with a healthy lifestyle, religious values, and a great deal of love for each other and for service to humanity. On one of my visits I met Johnny, close friends with Hakin since childhood. He spoke candidly about Hakin’s positive influence on his life and the life of mutual friends even as a young child. A very special soul on a mission, Hakin humbly refers to himself, his friends, his workers as equal members of a family united in bringing kindness, compassion, love and awareness to everyone they serve.

Tasty, economical, healthy and accommodating, the strictly vegan menu offers something for everyone, including: breakfast and lunch entrees, vegan desserts, soups, veggie patties, fruit, salads, natural beverages, smoothies and veggie burgers.

Vegetarian Restaurant by Hakin

73 NE 167 Street

North Miami, FL 33162

Tel. (305) 405-6346

www.vegetarianrestaurantbyhakin.com 

Monday-Thursday 9am-9pm

Friday 9am-3pm

Saturday-Events at approx. 8pm

Sunday-7:30-5pm

E V E N T S  4  U: (Mark your calendar)

Past July 4^th Parade: Thanks to Constance Brandenburg for her role in making EarthSave’s float a success

Past July 22 Dr. Greger’s Tamarac Lecture (appx 90 attendees) was fascinating and Chef Book Katz’s food was scrumptious

Aug 19-23 2010 NHA Healthy Living Conference Natural Hygiene (aka Health Science) is to the body what deep ecology is to the planet.  Fantastic speakers can inspire the changes you want in your life!  Vegan meals, fitness classes, fun and like-minded people from around the world.  Flamingo Conference Resort & Spa  Santa Rosa, CA 800-848-8300 > http://2010 Conference

PotluckSOUTH inspires & educates & yumm!  Attendance: July- 55 June- 45 May- 55

Sat, Aug 28, 6:15 pm Topic: Sprouting For Health While gardeners wait weeks for herbs and veggies, sprouted seeds, grains, legumes and nuts go from first soaking to vital food source within 7 days!  Learn why living, enzyme-rich food is so important and how to cultivate the most nutritionally concentrated produce on the planet. Speaker: Keith Seidler Master Gardner (U Florida) and Comm’l Real Estate Broker, educates about the benefits of raw living food, The Biology of Belief, The Power of Now and The Promise of Sleep.  His website simplysprout.com states ‘Life has been and will always remain a never ending journey with new things to learn all along the way.’  Coral Gables Cong. Church Fellowship Hall (NW corner of church)  3010 De Soto Blvd. (across from Biltmore Hotel) Members & First-timers: Free   Guests $5

Bring 8-10 portions of *HealthyVegan food with your place setting  $1 No Plate Fee   $8 No Food Fee

Everyone welcome   Taste   Share   Learn  *prefer organics - exclude meat, fish, eggs, dairy, GMO’s, honey, trans fats, hydrogenated oils, chemical additives

Aug 14 5-7pm Permaculture Introduction Class- Grow Your Own Food  ‘How to catch and store water, grow food and be super healthy!’  Biscayne Park, 710 NE 118th St.   $30 advance/$60 door

Register > www.permaculturemiami.com 

Sept 7 –Dec 11 > 2010 PERMACULTURE DESIGN accredited course in Sustainable and Wellness Design Systems- a green, sustainable way of living by learning cutting edge advancements in food forestry, natural building, alternative energy and organic growing, by Marcus Thomson

Sep 10-12  McDougall Advanced Study Weekend in Santa Rosa, CA designed for the benefit and enjoyment of those just beginning on the road to better health, as well as medical and nutrition professionals. > carol@drmcdougall.com (800) 941-7111 http://www.drmcdougall.com/health_3_day_program.html

Sept. 24-26 Raw Spirit Festival > Info & Tickets

Oct 1-6 IVU World Vegetarian Congress 2010  > Http://Www.Wvc2010.Org

Oct 2,3 10am-6pm 11th Annual World Veg Festival San Francisco, CA > http://www.sfvs.org/wvd

Tuesdays 8pm Health Video Night Join Bennett Josephson for Movie & Discussion relating to Natural health, Veganism, Yoga lifestyle at his N. Miami Bch. home  305-949-8950

Second Saturdays 9am– 2pm EarthSave Table MDC Environmental Center Open House, Kendall, 11011 SW 104 St (across baseball field) 9 acre nature preserve > secondsaturdays

C’ M O N, T A K E  A C T I O N:

Local Yoga teacher, Fred Busch, is a strong proponent of a healthy vegan diet. His teacher training course for new yoga instructors includes a segment about eliminating animal products > www.MiamiYoga.com

Anyone, especially young meat-eaters can witness an excellent vegan presentation by Gary Yourofsky as he addresses various classes at SoFla colleges from 9-23 to 10/1.  Details, Linda Bower 786 683 1905

> Take action and urge California leaders to pass the nation's first statewide ban on single-use plastic bags » bags are piling up in landfills and they don't biodegrade; help California lead the way!

Join the Spoon Revolution You can achieve much more by taking meat off your dish than by participating in marches, politics or charity.  We are feeding the animals instead of feeding ourselves > www.spoonrevolution.com

Local Food Miami is an online social network for anyone passionate about growing a sustainable local food economy and culture in South Florida > http://localfoodmiami.ning.com

Animal Freedom Day Find out how you can help the environment, your health, the animals and world hunger by being a vegan for one day.  Participants will be included as part of the climactic moment of the film Don't Eat Me, planned to be released in summer 2011 > >http://www.donteatme.ca

Consumers don't want Franken-Fish and Franken-Swine on their plates. Stop GE Animals from being introduced in the USA  > http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4498 Sarah Alexander, Outreach Director, Food & Water Watch

Leaping Bunny Program, cruelty-free certification, provides the best assurance that a company does not test on animals. Just recently, the Leaping Bunny Logo was featured on the website greenfudge.org as a label you can trust. Over 300 companies are Leaping Bunny certified, with more being added each month. We've worked out some special deals with some of them to save you money > take the pledge

>'Rent a Vegan Buddy!' supports those who want to go vegan in Croatia

Spanish translators wanted - to make EarthSave Miami website bilingual!  Contact Webmaster,

Noel Cleland > earthsave@earthlink.net

M E D I a:  (Online Links May Change)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-kanner

http://www.edgyveggie1.blogspot.com

http://www.ellen-ink.com

Book review: > The New Good Life provides a philosophical and prescriptive path from conspicuous consumption to conscious consumption. A passionate manifesto on finding meaning beyond money and status, this book delivers a sound blueprint for living well on less

Recommended Videos: Dirt, Gasland2010, Grocery Star Wars

Website: > Coronary Health Improvement Project 50,000 graduates and with clinical results published in 17 journal articles, the CHIP program has clearly demonstrated that better dietary and lifestyle choices can consistently and markedly improve the level of health as measured by the level and presence of coronary risk factors and by reductions in medication requirements and healthcare costs.

Cows With Guns Claymation Tops 1 Million Views  3 years after it was put up on Youtube, the Cows With Guns claymation has surpassed 1 million views > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5s5qGg01nE

Article: Unsafe at Any Meal  Every day, about 200,000 Americans are sickened by contaminated food. Every year, about 325,000 are hospitalized by a food-borne illness > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/opinion/25schlosser.html?_r=1

Respond: Humans are natural herbivores, but over thousands of years we put ourselves at the top of a fictitious ‘‘food chain,’’ harming and killing humans along with other animals… Merely preventing the blue fin tuna and other species from going extinct shows the same disrespect that has already done so much damage.  David Cantor, Responsible Policies for Animals > http://www.nytimes.

Interview: Stephanie Redcross At GE I was notorious for veganizing most team lunches, dinners and events. It was a great opportunity for me to drive awareness and break many of the stereotypes about "what a vegan looks like". Often, vegans and non-vegans don't realize there are Vegan lawyers, politicians, athletes, businesswoman… > http://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/vegan-mainstream-stephanie-redcross-interview.html

Website: The Save the Earth Foundation functions as a 501(c) (3) non-profit corporation dedicated to the expansion of environmental awareness in our society > www.savetheearth.org

Excerpt from Vandana Shiva's ‘The Killing Fields Of Multi-National Corporations’  Pesticides are war chemicals - every year 220,000 people are killed by pesticides worldwide.  "We are witnessing a massive corporate genocide - the killing of people for super profits. To maintain these super profits, lies are told about how, without pesticides and genetically modified organisms (GMOs), there will be no food. In fact, the conclusions of International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development, undertaken by the United Nations, shows that ecologically organic agriculture produces more food and better food at lower cost than either chemical agriculture or GMOs."

V e g a n. c o m Blog by Erik Marcus: 

·        Have you been meaning to finally give dairy the boot, and have just been looking for an excuse? Sign this little pledge form to make your commitment official, and I’ll email you some helpful info

> Link

·        The Pollan Steamroller Big Agriculture hates him, but his books are selling by the truckload: Food Rules- 721,000 copies  In Defense of Food- 441,000 copies The Omnivore’s Dilemma- 1.1 million copies. Pollan has repeatedly been unfair and dismissive toward vegetarians…not always as rigorous with his fact-checking as he needs to be, so his work is twice as valuable when read in conjunction with Adam Merberg’s Say What Michael Pollan? blog

·        Being vegan is about cutting the harm your lifestyle choices inflict on animals to as close to zero as possible…

C O O L   S T U F F:

Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them, the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.”— John Denver

This week Vegan Mainstream interviewed Sarah, owner and baker at X's to O's Vegan Bakery in Troy, New York. X's to O's creates vegan cakes, brownies, cupcakes, pies and canoe boats. The bakery sells its products at their storefront as well as in local grocery co-ops and online > veganmainstream.com

Dr. Jim Carey is liquidating inventory to pay a legal retainer fee… you can get a steal-of-a-deal on Ann Wigmore-related educational materials: The Raw Living Foods® Home Study Program – the Comprehensive “Holy Grail” of Raw Living Foods® education, with over 50 hours of video on DVD, plus handbook and recipe books. Includes videos by Dr. Ann, Victoria Boutenko, Paul Nison and other Wigmore proponents. At checkout use the coupon code 100HOMESTUDY to save $100 > http://chiDiet.com; Individual Raw Living Foods® DVDs, CDs and books – use the coupon code CDVTWENTY to get 20% off the DVDs > http://chiDietVideos.com

Are All Proteins Created Equal?  Here is the question: isn’t protein from any source, whether from animals or plants, similar in its biological effects?  The short answer to this question is “No.” When a dozen or so animal proteins were compared in animal studies with a dozen or so plant proteins, ALL animal proteins generated higher levels of serum cholesterol than did ALL plant proteins. Similarly, these two forms of protein do not have the same ‘biological value’, a concept that speaks to their abilities to support body growth and their efficiency of utilization > http://www.plantpurefoods.com

More than a thousand participants and visitors from throughout the U.S. and eight other countries attended the Animal Rights 2010 National Conference, held on July 15-19th near Washington, DC > farmusa.org

Chelsea Clinton's big fat vegan wedding  Chelsea is a vegan …menu will certainly be reflective of her talent in whipping up some gourmet vegan grub — even if the beef option does seem like a bit of a compromise > http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/chelsea-clintons-big-fat-vegan-wedding

Sewage sludge fertilizer is banned in organic agriculture because it contains innumerable toxic chemicals, heavy metals and pathogens that could harm farm workers and the environment while contaminating food. Out of 80,000 chemicals in commercial use, only 10 are regulated in sewage sludge used as fertilizer > http://www.capwiz.com/grassrootsnetroots/issues/alert/?alertid=15265766&type=CU

Quoted: News that ‘Iron Mike’ Tyson has gone vegan comes too late for Evander Hollyfield- N. Cleland

A C T I V I S T  C O R N E R:

What chemicals are in chemtrails? (those airplane trails which crisscross the skies above all NATO countries.)  Are the heavy metal particulates ANTI-ORGANIC when they descend onto gardens and organic plots? > http://www.floridaeco.net

The nearly 300 chemicals that EWG found when testing the umbilical cord blood of 10 Americans -- chemicals like BPA, lead, mercury, fire retardants, perchlorate and PCBs -- are increasingly linked to serious long-term health effects, from childhood cancer and autism to ADHD, learning deficits, infertility and heart disease.  It's time for a policy that is prevention oriented instead of reactionary. We are so close to our goal of 100,000 petition signatures > Click here to sign our petition urging Congress to support toxic chemical reform.

W I S E R  A D V I S O R:

From the day you go vegan, you should begin to supplement with vitamin B12 or use a variety of fortified foods. Absorption of B12 drops dramatically as the dose goes up, so if you are supplementing just once a day, you need a fairly high amount—at least 10 ug per day. (If you have been vegan for a while and haven’t been supplementing, you may need much more.) It’s important to choose a supplement that can be chewed or allowed to dissolve beneath the tongue. > http://vitamin-b12-supplements

Question: If we assume humans are frugivores by nature, then why can’t we freely eat vegetables, too?  Seems that many theorists separate vegetables from fruits.

G A R D E N  N I C H E:

In these days of generalized eco-awareness, it is easy to forget that a few short years ago, home gardeners were among the worst environmental offenders, cheerfully poisoning anything that annoyed them with whatever dreadful chemical that came to hand, unconscious of the long-term effects on fauna and flora, water and soil... I can think of no better guide to the principles and techniques of composting than Steve Solomon. Whether you live in an urban condo or farm many acres, you will find in these pages practical, complete and accessible information that serves your needs, served up with the warmth and gentle humor that characterizes everything Steve does > Click here to download your free copy

C H E F  J E F F:

Trader Joe’s unprecedented, six long pages > list of vegan foods, updated just this past April

EarthSave  S I N G E R S:  Suggest your favorite lyrics / join us with instrument or voice. Contact Bonnie babflamingo@gmail.com Repertoire- Jay Mankita(Junk Food Man, Sun and Wind, Soil and Rain) Linda Singer(Keep The Animals Off Your Plate) Joyce DiBenedetto-Colton(Soy To The World, Free The Cows, Veggie Wonderland)  Tim Tye(As You Want To Be)  Dana Lyons(Cows With Guns, The Tree)

R E S O U R C E S:

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EarthSave: Donations and nominal membership fees are 501C3 tax-deductible – Members get free home subscriptions to: Vegetarian Times magazine + EarthSave International Newspaper + ESMiami Newsletter plus admission to events (Online transactions or at Potluck- Gift Memberships available!)  Volunteer:  EarthSave Singers is recruiting voices, instruments (Bonnie-boddicke@fiu.edu).  Attend our Outreach Table at local events (Linda Bower, Coordinator 305 228-1116)  Donate: photos of past ESM events

Vegetarily Yours,

Jeff ‘VeganMan’ Tucker

Chairperson, Miami Chapter of EarthSave Int’l
PO Box 661026   Miami Springs, FL 33266   Tel: 305 228-1116 miami@earthsave.org 

EarthSave Miami is a local Chapter of EarthSave Int’l, a non-profit 501c3 educating about the powerful effects of food choices on health, environment and animals

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