Brummet's Conscious Blog

- - Congratulations to Literacy Bridge Org - - One of our eco-friends, Forrest Carman, sent us the press release (below) about an incredible achievment for a fantastic organization - Literacy Bridge . Those of you who are regular listeners of Conscious Discussions Talk Radio might recall hearing about this organization in the past. Click on - Literacy Bridge -or head over to the radio show and look through the archives from there. This particluar interview aired on Feb 24, 2009. Literacy Bridge, a non-profit organization that provides children and adults with tools for knowledge sharing and literacy learning, today announced the receipt of a $25,000 grant award from Amazon.com. The grant will primarily support Literacy Bridge’s ongoing pilot program in rural Ghana, and will help the organization conduct user experience testing and impact evaluation for its Talking Book program. Since January 2009, hundreds of Ghanaian school children have used Literacy Bridge’s audio computers, or T...

-- Quote of the Day -- “ Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter .” ~Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Celebrating Diversity, Conservation & Eco-inventions -- September is Biodiversity & Conservation Month !! Recently a Twitter-friend put out some information on a great article that was posted on Planetizen - www.planetizen.com " A new study from the UK Royal Society has determined that geo-engineering techniques are technically feasible approaches to address high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the resulting global warming. ...The group did, however, caution that the viability of these techniques should not dissuade governments from other policies aimed at cutting emissions and energy use... or divert governments away from their efforts to reduce carbon emissions ." Apparently the group is looking at a variety of inventions from equipment that can scrub the air clean of CO2 and space equipment that can reflect the sun's r...