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Wyngate & Maplewood Neighbors Helping Neighbors invite you to learn about Climate Diet’s mission to educate and inspire individuals about the profound effects of their food choices on the planet’s climate. Jane DeMarines will inform us about how we hold the power to make a difference by embracing a sustainable, and greater plant-based diets, and how we can positively impact our health, the environment, and the future of our planet. Climate Diet does not promote veganism—but promotes reduced meat consumption as a way to lessen the load on our environment from our human’s most impactful activity: daily eating!


20-year vegetarian, and award-winning executive, fundraiser, advocate, builder of partnerships and memberships, Jane M. DeMarines is dedicated to advancing causes related to environmental conservation and green community development. She has eight years of federal agency experience, including with the Dept. of Homeland Security, addressing climate change-related disasters. Her lengthy career includes managerial and executive positions for banking, housing, and community development. She has served on the boards of several advocacy and volunteer organizations. A resident of the Maryland suburbs of Washington D.C., she developed a Green Party for the Glen Echo Heights Citizens’ Association, with an environmental platform; co-managed a conservation coalition focused on urban forest preservation; testified on tree legislation at Montgomery County Council hearing, certified by “Casey Trees,” and participated in Potomac River conservancy through two coalitions. DeMarines launched Sustainable Earth Eating, now Climate Diet, in 2021, as she retired from the Inspector General for Dept. of Homeland Security.