Hawking her private-labeled brand of pricey industrial cleaning products to institutions willing to sign hefty contracts for the stuff (When they could probably buy the same junk elsewhere for less? Why?).
What is Don's passion?
Deirdre Imus is the mother of Wyatt Imus and the wife of Don Imus. She is a graduate of Villanova University with a B.A. in International Relations. She ran track at Villanova and has since then completed several triathlons and has run the New York City Marathon twice, most recently in the time of 3 hours 31 minutes.She is the founder of The Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology located at Hackensack University Medical Center, currently the sixth largest hospital in the country. Her center represents one of the first hospital-based programs whose specific mission is to identify, control, and ultimately prevent environmental factors that cause adult, and especially, pediatric cancer.
Under the guidance of Deirdre's center, Hackensack instituted a program called "Greening the Cleaning®," which revamped the hospital’s massive maintenance operation by eliminating all cleaning agents and chemical substances whose components include toxic materials and replaced them with environmentally preferable ones.
For its efforts The Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology and Hackensack University Medical Center were awarded The Phillip M. Scanlan Environmental Award from Quality New Jersey (QNJ). The Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology and Hackensack University Medical Center were also recognized in 2001 by the New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA) with the Environmental Award for Excellence.
Deirdre is also a founder and co-director with her husband Don Imus of The Imus Ranch, an authentic 4,000 acre working cattle ranch in the rolling hills of Northern New Mexico. The ranch provides the experience of the great American cowboy to children suffering from cancer, various blood diseases and the siblings of children who have been the victim of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
The Imus Ranch is totally and completely organic. It serves a strict vegetarian diet that can be accurately described as vegan in its food selection: no meat, no fish, no poultry, and no dairy. Further, all ranch cleaning agents are non-toxic, biodegradable, naturally derived substances containing no known or suspected carcinogens, mutagens or teratogens.
In addition, no pesticides or synthetic chemicals of any kind are used in gardening, farming or infrastructure and plant maintenance.
Deirdre was recently featured as a "Woman of Substance and Style" in Organic Style Magazine. The ranch was recently the cover feature in Architectural Digest and Deirdre takes particular pride in having designed and decorated a total of seventeen buildings, including an authentic circa 1880’s western town and a fourteen thousand square foot hacienda.
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