Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Quote of the Day -- "We have arrived at a new phase in human history where a certain part of the world’s population are in a state of almost forced consumerism – feed by massive marketing budgets and a willing and compliant media and where the economy is based not on real indicators of wealth but on how much we consume.  Where predatory businesses practices ...and long wasteful supply chains where quality and repair-ability and reuse-ability have been replaced by the notion that it’s cheaper to buy a new one than keep and fix the old one" *Excerpted from a letter written by Warren Snow via the Zero Waste San Diego Group . Warren happens to have been an international speaker at CRRA 2003 in Oakland where he represented the ZWIA and Zero Waste New Zealand organization s. Find Warren @: www.envision-nz.com -- Positive Eco-News -- I read of a Japanese non-profit org - JEN - that focuses on international humanitarian assistance via the Japan f...