EarthSave Baltimore

Earthsave Baltimore E-Newsletter:

Earthsave helps people make healthier, earth-friendly food choices by promoting a shift toward a whole food, plant centered diet.

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. “

~Albert Einstein~

Hi Earthsaver!

Many exciting things are happening these days, and we’re happy to be able to hook you up with all the latest information from Earthsave Baltimore.

We’re real pleased to announce that in a few days Earthsave Baltimore will have a new Website, thanks to the work of Margie Roswell, who is putting it together for us, and is helping us learn to maintain and update the new site. We think the new website will serve you well, and please let us know if you see a way that you think it could be improved. Thanks a bunch, and a tip of the hat to Margie Roswell!

We are gathering Earthsave Baltimore’s award winning recipes from our dinner events. If you were one of the winners, please send us your recipe(s) so we can compile them into a new cookbook we are preparing. Congratulations to Dana, who attended our last dinner with her husband and daughter, and left before she could receive her first place cooking award. Please contact us, Dana, so we
can get your award to you.

Our friend Michael Lightchaser, who organizes monthly raw vegan potlucks, asked for some Earthsave literature that he could pass out at grocery stores in Baltimore City. So we put together a nicely illustrated, two page, full color flier for he and his volunteers to hand out. Please let us know if you would like to join in the educational effort, and get together with other Earthsavers to pass out fliers at a grocery location of your choice.

Earthsave Baltimore’s 3rd Annual Earth-friendly Food Choices lecture event (not a potluck) will happen on april 12th, and will be located, as before, at the Women’s Club of Catonsville. We are very pleased to have the world renowned Cleveland Clinic physician and nutritional researcher Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr. as our keynote speaker. Dr. Esselstyn began a clinical
research study, in 1985, using plant-based nutrition with no added oil in patients severely ill with coronary artery heart disease. All compliant patients halted and often reversed their disease. Patients also lost their obesity, diabetes & hypertension. Several of those patients had been told by their referring cardiologist that they had less than a year to live. All are alive 21 years later. Wow!!

We anticipate a very special night in April. Sure hope you can join us and bring lots of friends and relatives! And please join our friendly group of enlightened eaters for this Saturday’s event in Owings Mills.

Hope to see you soon! Be well!

Peace, Don Robertson

EARTHSAVE VEG DINNER SERIES, on Saturday, Feb. 9th from 6-9 pm, will host a potluck dinner featuring the talk “Drugs and Meat: The Inside Story”, by Registered Dietitian Mark Rifkin. Mark will discuss the types of drugs approved for use in farmed animals, and how these drugs can endanger our health and that of the environment. Mark’s topic will give us all reason to rethink our definition of "the war on drugs". Mr. Rifkin has a nutrition practice in Baltimore that focuses on plant-based nutrition for prevention and treatment of various chronic diseases and conditions, including diabetes, weight control, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, gout, women's health concerns, cancer, and early-stage kidney failure.

DINNER GUESTS are asked to bring a dish made without animal products to serve five times the number in their party, along with a donation of $5 ($2 for members). Or you may attend without bringing a dish for a $12 fee ($10 for members). Please give 2 days notice if paying for dinner. Monthly dinner/lecture events are held on the second Saturday at the Learning Center/Yoga Studio of Your Prescription for Health, 10210 S. Dolfield Rd. in Owings Mills. Please RSVP by email or call 410-252-3043. More info is at http://baltimore.earthsave.org/.

MONTHLY VEG MEETUP DISCUSSION GROUPS offer us a chance to gather in more intimate and less formal settings than does the monthly Earthsave potluck dinner/lecture series. Meetups are casual and are held in restaurants over great vegetarian food. Discussions include a variety of topics that support people in making healthier choices in diet and lifestyle. There are two different groups, one vegan and one vegetarian. Both groups welcome anyone who is interested in learning about healthier eating. For details, or to register and let others know you plan to attend, go to http://vegetarian.meetup.com/9/, or to http://vegan.meetup.com/29/. We will continue on the topic of how we tend to answer some of the questions that often come up about our lifestyle, and about the ones to which we would like to have a better reply.

3rd ANNUAL EARTH-FRIENDLY FOOD CHOICES
lecture event (not a potluck) will happen on April 12th, and will be located at the Women’s Club of Catonsville, 10 St. Timothy's Lane, at Frederick Rd. The keynote speaker will be world renowned Cleveland Clinic physician and nutritional researcher Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr., who will speak on “Arrest and Reversal: Abolishing Heart
Disease.”

Dr. Esselstyn began a clinical research
study, in 1985, using plant-based nutrition with no added oil in patients severely ill with coronary artery heart disease. All compliant patientshalted and often reversed their disease. Patients also lost their obesity, diabetes & hypertension. Several of those patients had been told by their referring cardiologist that they had less than a year to live. All are alive 21 years later!

This special event, starting at 5:30 pm, will include the lecture “A Menu of Love: The Vegetarian Lifestyle”, by Don Robertson, founding director of Earthsave Baltimore. Light refreshments will be included. Men are very welcome to attend!! Seating is limited, advance registration suggested!!
Tickets are $20 in advance, and $25 at-the-door. Tickets may be purchased at the online store at www.EARTHSAVE.ORG. or send check or money order to “EARTHSAVE”, 517 Talbott Avenue, Lutherville, MD, 21093.

VEG MEETUP EMAIL DISCUSSIONS: One of the great benefits of being a Meetup group member is that you don’t have to wait for the group meetings to start a discussion, or to ask for recipes or support. If you are a member of either of the two groups above, you may email the whole group, or selected individuals in that group with a question or interesting topic. Want to know where to buy a certain product? Put your question or request to the group!

VEGETARIAN SUMMERFEST ‘08 is a big favorite annual educational conference for Earthsavers. On June 18 - 22, the North American vegetarian Society will bring together some of the very best speakers, workshops, food, social activities, and more. It will take place at the Conference Center at Pitt-Johnstown, on the picturesque campus of the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, PA. The campus is a 650-acre mountaintop wildlife preserve with 40 acres of hiking trails. Registrants may attend the entire 5-day conference, or opt for the weekend only. The toughest part for most attendees is trying to decide which of the classes to attend. Daytime schedules normally offer at least 6-7 options. Conference fees cover the entire educational program, including classes, lectures, workshops and discussions, as well as films, entertainment and use of certain athletic areas. Also covered are vegan meals, with ample variety to suit most any preference, and on-campus housing which includes a twin bed, linen and towels. To learn more, go to http://vegetariansummerfest.org/. We hope to see you there!

WOMEN’S EXPO AT CCBC CATONSVILLE, always one of our favorite events, will happen this year the weekend of March 8th and 9th. As usual, Earthsave will have and information and book sales table that you will see on your right as soon as you enter. Tickets are $6, (free with college ID) which will benefit the nonprofit organization American Association for Women in Community College. Educational presentations will include a screening of the powerful film documentary “Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal and the Fight for Coalfield Justice,” and the talk “A MENU OF LOVE: THE VEGETARIAN LIFESTYLE,” by Earthsave Baltimore’s founding Director, Don Robertson. For more info on the Expo, please go to http://www.WomensExpomd.com/.

NEW BOOKLET:
OUR FOOD OUR FUTURE is Earthsave’s attractive new pamphlet that’s one of the best tools available for those who are interested in educating others about a healthier diet and lifestyle. It’s filled with compelling information regarding health, environment and the treatment of animals. You may view the whole booklet or download a copy for free by going to http://www.earthsave.org/pdf/ofof2006.pdf. You may also purchase them for $2 at Earthsave events or from the online store at www.earthsave.org.

EARTHSAVE MEMBERSHIP is a great way for you to contribute to our important educational mission. All members may receive a free 12-issue subscription to Vegetarian Times magazine and Earthsave’s national quarterly newsletter. Folks who attend meetings may check out books
from our well stocked EarthSave Library, they may place literature on our networking tables, may make a brief announcement to the group, and receive discounted attendance fees and EarthSave bookstore prices. You may join our group online at http://www.earthsave.org/, or you can send a tax-deductible check for $35, or $50 for family membership, or $25 for student or senior, to EarthSave at 517 Talbott Ave. Lutherville MD, 21093. Thanks for your kind support!

PLEASE REMEMBER to be the peace that you wish to manifest. Be well!

EarthSave
… May all be fed, may all be healed, and may all be loved.

E-mail us at Baltimore@earthsave.org, or call us at 410-252-3043. And please visit
EarthSave Baltimore’s site at http://baltimore.earthsave.org/, and the EarthSave International website at http://www.earthsave.org/.