NEWS

Growing Healthy Communities

December 14, 2022

In this feature by Enrich, a creative marketing agency serving businesses and organizations that help build healthier communities, learn how Plant Powered Metro New York is making healthy waves in our community, and how our partnership with the Lifestyle Building brings our work to life through social gatherings, learning events, and getting hands-on with plants in an urban garden.

How Our Grassroots Movement is Creating Change

July 6, 2022

Read how our community is advancing plant-powered health in the summer edition of VEGWORLD Magazine. In the article, Lianna Levine Reisner, Plant Powered Metro New York Network Director, shares how PPMNY builds awareness of the movement, makes education and resources accessible to our communities, and creates support for healthy food policies in NYC. Through our collective action, we're empowering people to change what's on their plates.

Empowering the Latinx Community with Plant-Based Nutrition

March 8, 2021

Plant Powered Metro New York is thrilled to be the recipient of a grant from the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies' Community Grant program to support our Plant Powered Jumpstart for Latinx Communal Resilience kicking off June 1, 2021. Read the press release here.

Building a Plant-Based Nutrition Movement

July 14, 2020, written by PPMNY Network Director Lianna Levine Reisner for VegFund

In 2016, I spent four weeks fighting what felt like three or four consecutive viruses — long before the word “virus” was on everyone’s mind. When I spiked a fever in my final round of sickness, I knew my immune health was compromised. At the time, I hadn’t realized how very unwell I had been, but feeling so extremely sick made me think hard about who I was and who I wanted to be. I wanted to help everyone enjoy good health — not just me, but my husband, my kids, and my community. That experience started me on an exploration of nutrition that eventually led to the launch of Plant Powered Metro New York (PPMNY), a health movement that connects and empowers local communities through whole-food, plant-based (WFPB) nutrition. Read on...

Calling on Gov. Cuomo to Address COVID-19 with Nutrition

June 23, 2020

Leaders from Plant Powered Metro New York helped draft and signed onto this letter with other New York-state groups and the national organization PlantPure Communities, calling on Governor Cuomo to use nutrition to keep the curve of hospitalizations bent in response to COVID-19. Read the press release here.

We Stand in Solidarity

June 9, 2020

We stand in solidarity with our Black communities in response to ongoing injustices.

We're standing up for Black lives to breathe deeply and freely, literally and figuratively, liberated from physical brutality and hate, the stifling legacy of slavery, and the inflammatory diseases that block airways and arteries. Food justice, health justice, racial justice -- these are all intertwined.

This week, we reflected as a team from many different racial backgrounds and recommitted ourselves to the task of centering Black leadership in the whole food, plant-based (WFPB) movement and elevating Black voices in our work.

As we move into summer, we are humbled to offer you a screening of The Invisible Vegan documentary followed by a talk-back with filmmaker Jasmine Leyva, a conversation on race and gender with Black VegFest leaders Omowale Adewale and LoriKim Alexander, and a probe into racial health disparities with Milton Mills, MD.
It is deeply important to us that our movement is responsive to the unique needs of people from many different cultures and lived experiences.

Keep us accountable by giving us feedback and ideas for where we can go next. We'd love to hear from you!

PPMNY Becomes Project of Center for Transformative Action

October 13, 2019
We are thrilled to announce that Plant Powered Metro New York is now a fiscally-sponsored project of the Center for Transformative Action (CTA), a 501(c)(3) organization based in Ithaca, NY, which supports change makers with the tools to build thriving, inclusive communities that work for everyone. Read more.

Press

February 15, 2022 - Gotham Gazette: Why We Welcome Vegan Friday in NYC Public Schools
February 9, 2021 - Grub Street: How COVID Accelerated a Fight Against Food Deserts in NYC
September 18, 2019 - Bronx News 12: Parkchester restaurant gets national recognition for plant-based options
July 3, 2019 - Queens Gazette: "Plant Powered" Foods Never Sounded So Good