If you are interested in running your house or office on renewable energy sources AND you want to save money while doing it, you need to check out Viridian Responsible Energy! So far, Viridian serves sustainable-minded folks in Connecticut, Pennsylvania and now New Jersey.

Michael Fallquist, Founder and CEO of Viridian will be on the Green Divas tonight to give us all the details. So, if you have questions (like we do), email us before the show, IM us during the show or send us a message through Facebook or Twitter.

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!!!

We’ll be having the crew from the now annual Medicine Wheel community garden celebration at Lusscroft Farm in-studio to tell us about the fun events coming up this weekend. The event runs on Saturday, May 22 and Sunday May 23 and has an long list of fun things going on: plant sale, photo and art exhibit, music, food, dancing, drumming, and of course the Medicine Wheel concert.

On Friday, May 21, 30 5th and 6th grade students from the nearby Ridge and Valley charter school will be participating in the creation of the new “Sister Moon Garden” in conjunction with students from the Montclair State NJ School of Conservation at Stokes.

Tune in tonight to learn more!

Thursday, May 20, 2010
7 – 8pm EST
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I know Earth Day is coming because my email box is jammed with press releases and announcements about an amazing variety of ideas for how to celebrate Earth Day. Of course many of them are about cool new products that will help make your Earth Day more fun and green, etc.

While we love great products for green living, we aren’t all about consumerism – in fact, Jen and I love to talk about things that have nothing to do with buying, manufacturing, shipping, selling or anything related to adding more ’stuff’ to our lives. We find that there are so many things we can recycle, repurpose, re-use or ‘do’ rather than ‘buy’.

Jen and I got talking about what we could do on the radio show, which is actually ON Earth Day this year. We wanted to try and share something relevant (some of you will appreciate the clever irony in the use of the word ‘relevant’).

We know there are a lot of fun things going on in OUR hood, but we know we have listeners all over the world and we decided to ask our listeners to chime in and tell us what they were doing for Earth Day.

Please let us know what you are doing, want to do, wish you could do or think others should do for Earth Day this year and we’ll discuss your ideas on the air April 22 – Earth Day!

Please email us @ info@thegreendivas.com or leave a comment here!

Be part of the Green Diva Earth Day celebration this year and send in your thoughts, ideas, plans, etc.

Look forward to hearing/reading from you!

eat. blog. be merry!
gd meg

Ode magazine founders, Jurriann Kamp and his wife Helene De Puy are still busy changing the world one creative edition at a time.

The Green Divas will be talking to Jurriaan tonight, so make sure to tune in!

We’ll be talking about the special edition Ode magazine that is designed to share some of the inspired solutions for climate change with everyone in Copenhagen (and anyone who cares via FREE digital mag too) this week. 75,000 of The solutions we need now: How the renewable energy economy will halt global warming, clean up the planet, create millions of jobs and make us all healthier, issue will be distributed in Copenhagen and it is also available free online – SolutionsWeNeedNow.org.

Some of the most inspiring and influential minds offer  insights and solutions to the climate crisis (and some of the other challenges clobbering us as well) – Paul Hawken, Bill McKibben, Lester Brown, Al Gore, and others.

This issue offers information on a breakthrough project to use man-made vortices (not sure exactly what this is, but we’ll ask Jurriaan tonight!), up to six miles high, to circulate heat in the upper atmosphere and thus cool the planet. The issue also contains stories on: Dutch scientists who have developed technology to generate renewable electricity wherever saltwater and fresh water meet; ‘carbon farming’ as an innovative and simple form of CO2 sequestration; houses that generate more power than they consume; and new biofuels that don’t interfere with food production.

Please email any questions in advance to: info@thegreendivas.com or IM us during the show.

Tune in and turn on a friend!

Thursday, December 10, 2009
7 – 8pm EST
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Amor Ilao McGuinness and her husband Tom will join The Green Divas live in the studio on Thursday, October 8th to promote the benefit concert she will headline at Alice Tully Hall in New York City on October 17th.

The concert called “Six Voices for One Love” will combine opera, Broadway and traditional Kundimans and will benefit Bantay Bata 163, a child welfare program established over 10 years ago by the ABS-CBN Foundation based in Asia to provide shelter, education, legal and medical services to children in  need.

Amor’s first performance was at the age of 6 at a talent show in her hometown of Laguna, Louisiana.  She charmed the audience and took home the first prize. Since then, Amor has gone on to perform at Carnegie Hall and NJPAC in addition to performing up and down the east coast as well as before the Philippine Consulate in and at other Filipino affairs. She has also received two Philippine Presidential Awards.

Now in her 70s, Amor is fulfilling a lifelong dream at last with her upcoming benefit performance, “My dream was to sing at Lincoln Center. I said I would do it for the benefit of the poor children, plus show them [the audience] our culture, our music.”

Not only is Amor the principal vocalist in the concert, she, along with her husband Tom, have organized the entire event which includes a traditional 12-piece Rondalla String Orchestra.

Tickets cost $40 and may be purchased by calling 973-335-7660, at the box office, or online at Alice Tully Hall.   Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center is located in New York City at 65th and Broadway.

Don’t miss tonight’s show!

Thursday, October 8, 2009
7 – 8pm EST
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If you are anywhere near Union Square NY (Manhattan) this week, you will definitely want to stop in @ Paragon Sports to check out Icebreaker’s line of sport apparel and get a 26.2% discount AND a free pair of their wonderful socks.

This is fabulous, natural apparel — great for running (supposedly doesn’t get stinky, but I haven’t tested that aspect yet). Really great for NY weather and the base layer offers protection for those winds coming off the Hudson.

Icebreaker is an extremely sustainable sports apparel company based in New Zealand. Most of the clothing is made from merino wool and when you purchase Icebreaker products, you get to meet your sheep! Read more about Icebreaker . . .

I have no idea how they will do this, but if you bring your old synthetic running top with you, they’ll turn it into a reusable shoe bag for free!

Make sure to bring in this coupon to get this great discount.

Promotion starts today, October 5 and runs for a week until Monday, October 12.

See you there!

eat. blog. be merry.
gd meg

Inspired by these words of Aldous Huxley, The September Concert Foundation was born in 2002 on the first anniversary of 9/11. Since then, on each anniversary this message of peace through music has spread further and further.

In 2008, 222 concerts were organized throughout the world. This year there will be close to 10,000 performers. 46 US cities from coast to coast joined the cause,  including Oakland, Philadelphia, Santa Barbara, Forth Worth, Seattle, and Washington D.C.

On Friday, September 11, 2009, across America and around the world, the skies will come alive with music as The September Concert Foundation organizes its eighth annual global day of music for peace. On that day professional and amateur musicians will perform classical music, jazz, rock & roll – all kinds of music in all kinds of venues – from parks and squares, schools, libraries, churches, office building lobbies and plazas to cafés, stores and senior centers.

All concerts adhere to three basic principles:

• Freedom: All venues and musicians are free to design and organize their own concerts.
• Equality:  All music and all musicians are treated equally, regardless of gender or background.
• Accessibility: All music is offered free of charge.

For more information about the event go to www.septemberconcerts.org To learn more about Leo Schaff go to:    www.myspace.com/leosongs.

Tonight Leo Schaff, co-writer (along with Jim Papoulis and Regine Urbach) of one of the songs to be performed throughout the world Give Us Hope,  joins The Green Divas LIVE in the studio to perform and talk about this great event.  Don’t miss tonight’s magical show!

Thursday, September 10, 2009
7 – 8pm EST
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Yael Shacham & Lara Gonzalez - photo by Erin Mills

This week, The Green Divas Radio Show will feature in-studio musical guest, Lara Gonzalez of Marafanyi Drum, Dance and Song. Lara’s in town from the lovely Berkshires of western Massachusetts to promote and participate in a The Heritage and Agriculture Association’s Medicine Wheel Garden Community Project taking place at Lusscroft Farm in Wantage, New Jersey this weekend (May 15-17).  The creators of the event, Brian Hennessey and Paul Cardillo, will also be in the studio to talk with the Green Divas about the event.

The event will include an Education Initiative on Friday May 15th which students from Ridge and Valley Charter School in Blairstown will participate along with Montclair State University’s NJ School of Conservation to initiate the Medicine Wheel Project.  On Saturday the public is welcome to work on the garden.  And on Sunday the 17th, the garden will be completed and culminate with a free concert featuring Marafanyi Drum Dance and Song, John Sheehan and Charlie Jones.

Lusscroft Farm

For more information about the event go to  Lusscroft Farm’s website. To find out more about Marafanyi, visit Marafanyi.com.

or just tune in and find out more this week!

Thursday, May 14, 2009
7 – 8pm EST
HomeGrownRadioNJ.org

You can join in by calling us at the studio during the show 908.362.6622, IMing us during the show (IM information is on HomeGrownRadioNJ’s homepage in top left corner)or leave us a comment here.

Green Diva’s Jen and Meg will be heading up the ‘Green Media’ panel at this year’s Green Ventures conference at Fairleigh Dickenson University. The title of the conference is: Jumpstarting the New Green Economy.  This three day event starts May 19 and runs through May 21 with a lot of activities – panels, exhibitions, speakers, etc. The keynote speaker will be David Grant of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.

There are a lot of excellent and informative panels, but of course the ‘Green Media’ panel will be among the coolest. Our panel will be held on Wednesday, May 20 @ 10am. Be there or be square!

Green Media Panel
What is ‘Green’ media and how does it fit into the rapidly evolving media landscape? We will discuss how to work with the media to reach your audience whether it is B2B or B2C. We will explore and share about what has worked and what has not in terms of ‘traditional’ media as well as burgeoning new ‘social’ media environments. This is intended to be an interactive forum, please feel free to offer questions and suggestions for this panel in advance – but you’ll have to be there to have a great green time!

Panelists include:

Green Diva Meg (aka Megan McWilliams): Author, Green Divas Radio Show producer/host, professional ‘green’ blogger/product reviewer, PR/marketing professional, recovering publisher

Sandra Holtzman: President Holtzman Communications, offering PR/Marketing for Cleantech companies; Founder/Board Member Cleantech Corridor

Greg Mattison: Producer/Host of ‘Newly Greens’ a local television show and global podcast about green living

Jenifer O’Neill (aka Green Diva Jen): Green Divas Radio Show co-host, professional ‘green’ blogger/product reviewer, PR/marketing professional

Jane Tabachnick – Chief Visionary/Gal Geek/Gal Green Jane Tabachnick Marketing, focused on social media and sustainability

Hope to see you there!

eat. blog. be merry!
GD Meg

The Green Divas will be celebrating Women’s Health Month up at Centenery College Thursday, March 26, 2009. They will be sitting on a panel of distinguished women to discuss how women have taken the lead to save the planet. Other panelists include fellow New Jersey sustainability super women, Leslie Joy of Joy Organic and Sister Miriam MacGillis of Geneis Farm.

Professor Lauren Bergey will moderate the panel and there is a yummy organic lunch provided by Burden Free foods, a New Jersey-based sustainable and healthy food catering company, run by Martine Marcus.

There will be music by the fabulous Kathy Moser and an eco-fashion show featuring some of the wonderful clothes provided by Joy Organic.

Dr. Deborah Diamond Fisch has done a great job putting this event together and it’s FREE and it’s not just for women so, if you can make it, come celebrate with us!

The festivities begin @ 10:30am. For directions see the Centenary College website. With questions, please call 973.539.1008

You back yet?

Until then,