The newest book in her best-selling Green This! series focuses on personal health and is titled, The Essential Green You!  Easy Ways to Detox Your Diet, Your Body, and Your Life. The second book in the series, Growing Up Green, Baby and Child Care, is a practical family guide to raising children in an ever increasing toxic world. Green This! Volume 1: Greening Your Cleaning offers a wealth of insights and expertise for protecting families from harmful chemicals. Deirdre is also the author of a national best-selling cookbook, The Imus Ranch: Cooking for Kids and Cowboys.

Environmental Health Leadership

Numerous organizations have recognized Ms. Imus’ impact.  In 2009, Westport Magazine named Deirdre "Greenest Volunteer" in its second annual "Light a Fire" awards campaign honoring givers and philanthropists. In 2008, the USO of Metropolitan New York honored her as "Woman of the Year." In 2007, she was named "Person of the Year" by Spectrum, a magazine for the families of children with autism. Ms. Imus played a leadership role in the passage of the historic $945 million Combating Autism Act of 2006.  Also in 2007, Deirdre Imus was named a “Champion for Autism” by The Autism Education Foundation of the Morris-Union Jointure Commission in New Jersey and was awarded the Rachel Carson Award from the National Audubon Society for her contributions to conservation. In addition, Ms. Imus received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Pace University.

In 2006, she was honored with the prestigious Lizette H. Sarnoff Award for Volunteer Service by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. In 2005, she was honored with the Excellence in Cancer Awareness Award by the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation. Deirdre serves on the boards of several organizations related to children’s health, including the National Autism Association, Safe Minds,  Generation Rescue, Gilda's Club-Northern New Jersey, SKIP of New York, and East Harlem Council for Human Services, Inc., Boriken Neighborhood Health Center.

Greening the Cleaning® Program

The Deirdre Imus Environmental Center developed the award-winning Greening the Cleaning® program. Greening the Cleaning® means eliminating to the greatest extent possible all cleaning agents containing hazardous ingredients and replacing them with environmentally responsible ingredients with the least level of toxicity.

Healthcare facilities, government authorities, businesses and schools have implemented the program to date, with direct savings in cleaning costs ranging from budget neutral to 75%. Hackensack University Medical Center, which was the first to convert to the Greening the Cleaning® program in 2001, has experienced a 15% cost savings.

100% of all profits from our institutional products go to the Environmental Center for supporting education and research to identify, control and ultimately prevent exposures to environmental factors that may cause adult, and especially pediatric cancer, as well as other health problems with our children. For the retail line, 100% of all profits go to the Imus Cattle Ranch for Kids with Cancer, a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit. The authentic 4,000 acre working cattle ranch in northern New Mexico provides the experience of the American cowboy to children suffering from cancer and various blood diseases, as well as to children who have lost a brother or sister to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

The Environmental Center is making significant strides in raising awareness among lawmakers about the potential hazards of cleaning chemicals to indoor air quality. Recent efforts have helped usher in “Green Cleaning” Executive Orders from governors in three states – New York, New Jersey and Connecticut – as well as related legislation.

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