Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Living Clutter Free -- Barbara Tako is a motivational clutter clearing speaker and the author of: Clutter Clearing Choices – Clear Clutter, Organize Your Home, & Reclaim Your Life . Join us for this fascinating discussion on how clearing clutter is part of living green and can create sustainable communities, while benefiting your emotional well-being, ... Airs live at 10 AM (pacific) this morning and will be archived for your convenience - Click on the show title here: Living Clutter Free  - or look to the side bars on this blog for recent and upcoming Conscious Discussions Talk Radio programing.  -- Recommended Resources --  Green Energy Explained provides information and tips on green energy - everything from biomass to solar, and many technologies few of us know of. Check it out at: www.greenenergyexplained.com Go Save Power offers honest reviews of "green" products and power saving technologies: www.gosavepower.com Move On is a powerful organ...

-- Quote of the Day -- “ I used to believe I was going in the wrong direction sometimes… it is important to accept my life experiences and learn from them… accept your personal accountability for what happens and move on. …Instead of worrying about the fairness of it all we must learn to be a river – go with the flow. …We all have an invisible bucket – and that is a great way to picture our feelings. When our bucket is full we are having positive feelings joyful, happy, …grateful. When our buckets are empty we might be sad or angry or jealous or any of these negative feelings. We can choose to be a bucket filler or a bucket dipper. A bucket filler helps make other people feel good by the things we do and say; a bucket dipper does just the opposite. The best way to keep our bucket full, is to fill other people’s buckets. …we are in charge of our buckets, all the time .” Stacey Lundgren ~ June 24, 2010 Today's quote came from an interview with Stacey on the Conscious Discussions ...

-- Chatter -- Well, it is that time again - the doors to the office will be closed today, and will remain closed until Sunday. As many of you are already aware, Dave and I take 3-4 days off from the office every month - we do this for our own sanity. You see, a home office never goes away - it is there 24/7 and emails roll in every minute of the day. So for our own sanity and peace of mind, we have made a pact to each other to take this time away every month. I'll be sharing a lot of information today, in hopes that it will be enough content to satisfy our readers while we take this time away from the office :)   You'll find our site changes - www.brummet.ca - are nearly completed; we'll be able to do the final touch ups, affiliate info and a few new pages, and more in a few days... having it completely revamped and finished by Sept 1st, as promised. In the meantime, do scroll through the site to see what we've done with it so far. Check out Dave's Portfolio p...

-- Brummet's News -- :) I'm excited to let you know that Dave is currently finishing the final touches on our new website - a totally new design, but with the same address of course - He tells me the finished product should be available by Sept 1st... that is his personal deadline. It's hard, being that he has an injured right arm at the moment and is doing a lot of left hand stuff! :) However, I wanted to warn you so that in the meantime, as you visit the site over the next few days, you might see some pages aren't yet working or you might notice changes happening every day... Again, we plan on having the site changes completed by Sept 1st - with LOTS of new stuff, so do visit it often :) - www.brummet.ca -- Conscious Discussions Radio -- Today, live at 10 AM - I'll be interviewing Lynn Reardon, who is the founder of LOPE Org . ( LoneStar Outreach to Place Ex-Racers ). Join us for a discussion: Saving Race Horses - re: horse rescue and adoption... we'l...

-- Quote of the Day -- " To live for results would be to Sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is IN my actions, Not from them. " ~ Hugh Prather -- Recommended Resources -- Service is Power : Learn about grant writing, volunteering and giving services to others... this is a wonderful blog: www.ServiceIsPower.com Green Build : I came across this site just by chance and though it is a business, not a non-profit, I wanted to pass along the info to you. Green Build is a woman owned certified green business that offers practical and collaborative approaches to advance sustainable and healthy building design and construction practices... for new and existing buildings. Check them out at: www.greenbuild.com   Find Dave and Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, information about their radio program, newsletter, blogs, and more at: www.brummet.ca * Support the Brummets by telling your friends, or purchasing a book - each book sold raises ...

-- Chatter --  OK - I'm a little late in coming over to the blog today... I've been out harvesting blackberries, cabbage, potatoes, eggplant, artichoke and a few tomatoes as well... weeding in between all that. Once all the food was stored in the fridge and the kitchen relatively tidy, I headed right over here to spend some time with you on the blog. WHEW~! LOL Later on I'll continue with the laundry, kitchen scouring and dog duties before heading back in the office to tackle the many emails sitting there for me to deal with :) ...and hopefully, I'll actually get some time to write this week. :) Speaking of which... I'd like to invite you all to check out this great archived interview that I was listening to again recently, which the quote below was taken from: -- Quote of the Day -- “ A query is essentially is a sales letter… in this case you are selling your creative work to a publisher, it is the first step to getting a contract. …Remember most ...

-- Quote of the Day --  " Take out another notebook, pick up another pen,         and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the centre of chaos, make one definitive act.         Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake.  Just write... Just write... ...Just write ."            ~ Natalie Goldberg   -- Brummets In the Media --  Off the Shelf Radio Show - Advice, tips and hard-to-find  411 from professionals in the writing industry - Today, featuring Lillian Brummet. Denise and Lillian discuss the need for a business mindset in the writing career. Check it out  by clicking on the: " Environmentally Conscious Artist on Off the Shelf Radio " -- Recommended Resources--   Western Sustainability Exchange : " Sustainable choices that enhance economic opportunities which perserve open space, wildlife habitat, farm...

-- Quote of the Day -- “If you go in as a therapist without knowing a thing about {their situation}, but go in as an expert - what you are doing is converting them to your way of thinking, making them little “you’s” and the horror of that is they have to stay with you for the rest of their lives. …The real goal of therapy is to make yourself useless to the person, where they will no longer need you – because you are not {a therapist} for yourself. …Abuse is when someone takes away the power of another, often without that person being aware their power is taken away… or they give it away willingly... One person stealing power from another… There is a deception going on, the person is convincing the victim that their actions are for their own good. …they not only hide it, but when it comes to the kids they make excuses for it. …It often starts with a trained dependence on another. There are all kinds of abuse, but emotional abuse is the most prevailing.” ~ Milton Trachentenburg ...

-- Quote of the Day -- " Worrying never did Anyone any good! " ~  Unknown -- Conscious Discussions Radio -- Our guest of the day is Kelly Meister is a writer, photographer, and potter - a woman who’s life has been filled with adventures with nature. We’ll discover her passions for promoting kindness, some of the plights facing wildlife and domestic animals and we’ll hear some of her wonderful, inspiring stories today as well. Keep you pen handy, Kelly will be sharing all kinds of websites and resources for you today. Join us at 10 AM (pacific), or access the archive at your convenience, for this fascinating discussion on Nurturing Nature & Wildlife Woes on the Conscious Discussions talk radio show.   Find Dave and Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, information about their radio program, newsletter, blogs, and more at: www.brummet.ca * Support the Brummets by telling your friends, or purchasing a book - each book sold raises funds for charity as w...

-- Brummets In the Media -- Join me this morning - 7-8 AM (Pacific) - on the Teja Vu Radio with host Teresa - http://www.blogtalkradio.com/tejavu_teresa This interview will be archived as well, and is easy to access at your convenience. -- Positive Eco-News -- Ok, I know you are going to love this… I read in the April 2010 Recycling Product News mag – that Carbon Sciences Inc developed a “ breakthrough technology to recycle carbon dioxide emissions into gasoline and other portable fuels ”.   This really blows me away since it seems like science fiction in a way – but here it is, right there in front of us. It is amazing. Anyway…. They have created away for capturing flue gases via onsite unites and can be a major step towards sustainability.  Find out more at: recyclingproductnews.ca Find Dave and Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, information about their radio program, newsletter, blogs, and more at: www.brummet.ca * Support the Brummets by telling ...

-- Quote of the Day -- " What is right for one soul may not be right for another.   It may mean having to stand on your own  and do something seen as strange in the eyes of others. " ~ Eileen Caddy   -- Recommended Resources -- http://beyondrecycling.ca   - inspiring and empowering youth to take leadership in making positive environmental and behavioral change http://wildsight.ca - Protecting wildlife & wild places -- Conscious Discussions Radio -- Stuart Rose is here to tell us about sustainable building with a focus on “net zero” – Don’t know what that term means? Find out today! Stuart is the author of: Sustainability: A Personal Journey to a Built Sustainable Community… And An Amazing Picture Of What Life Will Soon Be Like .   Join us for this fascinating discussion about Net Zero Construction - today @ 10 AM (Pacific) on Conscious Discussions Radio --or listen to the archive shows at your convenience. ...

-- Quote of the Day -- Under the certainty of Heaven All that we can be sure of is tomorrow... When yesterday is already ours, What more can we ask? ~ Brother Cadfael, a character in a TV mystery series & 20+ mystery books -- Recommended Resources -- http://www.inikasmallearth.org - Inika was founded to empower children to become powerful voices in the issues that affect their education, their health and their environmental footprint.  This organization is a grassroots movement consisting of students, parents and teachers who want to build on the rich foundation of the school sustainability movement.   http://www.recyclinggarbage.net - a guide to earth conservation starting with recycling   Find Dave and Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, information about their radio program, newsletter, blogs, and more at: www.brummet.ca * Support the Brummets by telling your friends, or purchasing a book - each book sold raises f...

-- Sunday Gardening -- Yes, we're featuring another Sunday Gardening segment today on Conscious Discussions radio - today I'll be discussing common harvests this time of year and what to do with them. Save some energy and time this year with some of our simple tips. Learn more about succession crops, and join us too in the chat room to ask your questions. Send me an email this morning with your garden questions and I'll address them in today's show. (via "contact" button on our site: www.brummet.ca )  Airs live at 10 AM (Pacific) on the Conscious Discussions radio show - Click on the hyper-link here, or look to the sidebars on this blog for links to recently aired episodes. -- Positive Eco-News -- The coca-cola company is apparently experimenting with numerous plastic beverage container alternatives from designing a bottle that is thin but strong (reducing plastic) to looking at “ developing plant-derived bottles that are 100 % recyclable...

 -- Quote of the Day -- The quote I've chosen for today ( below ) originated from a Conscious Discussions Talk Radio show that aired back on May 27th, 2010 on How to Write and Speak like a Professional . You can find the archived show three different ways - the easiest is to simply click on the title above. Otherwise, visit the Conscious Discussions homepage and scroll through the archives listed there. Or you can visit our site ( www.brummet.ca ) to find a handy hyper-linked list of archived shows.     “ To me, the starting point is what you say (as opposed to stage presence) - unless you are going to be on stage strictly to be an entertainer, to make people laugh and smile than fine, the content isn’t important. But if you are trying to convince people about something …it doesn’t matter how good of an entertainer you are, you are not going to get your point across. …Stage presence, vocal variety, gestures, movements, and all that are there to emphas...

-- Conscious Living Events -- Aug 15-18: SWANA’s Wastecon 2010 Location: Boston Convention & Exhibition center Boston, MA – USA Info: wastecon.swana.org Aug 15 : National Acadian Day (Canada) " Indeed, it appears to me that a people who, during more than a century of hardship and persecutions, have managed to preserve their religion, their language, their customs and their autonomy, must have acquired enough importance to deserve that they take should the means to solemnly assert their existence; and that could not be done in a more efficacious way than by the celebration of a national day of their own ..." ~ Marcel-Francois Richard -- Positive Eco-News -- * source: www.JapanFS.org:  Back in 2001 it was determined that about 90% of Japans C02 emissions were generated from road transport, the Japanese transport sector had a lofty goal of cutting the Carbon Dioxide contributions from 267 to 243 million tons by 2010.  One might ...

-- Quote of the Day -- " Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher ." ~ William Wordsworth  -- Conscious Discussions Radio -- Today @ 10 AM Pacific (live) our guest of the day was a no-show, so we happened to have on hand a contingency show where I discussed numerous Positive News on the Conscious Discussions Radio show -  Join us live for our radio episodes, and drop into the live chat room, browse links and resources while you listen... Or drop by anytime to hear the archived episodes at your convenience. Find Dave and Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, information about their radio program, newsletter, blogs, and more at: www.brummet.ca * Support the Brummets by telling your friends, or purchasing a book - each book sold raises funds for charity as well!

-- Quote of the Day -- “ I got some pretty harsh lessons from the kids… one inner city kids told a story about his father killing his dog. I was shocked, but thought perhaps he was vying for attention – but it turns out he wasn’t and I realized that there was violence in the home and I was concerned for him. And I asked him how he felt about that. …So I said, ‘Kids – look… You are living in a tough world. Very difficult things happen, but they are out of your control because you are kids. Here’s what you can do – you can say to a parent: ‘I feel bad when you do such-and-such to my dog or cat’. And you can say it maybe twice because the parents are in charge. But that can change, you can decide to be kind to animals when you grow up. …Kids can write stories about what is happening, how they feel when they are with animals. …{Pawprints Literacy Org} programs develop listening, speaking, reading and writing skills – including drama – all of which are a part of li...