Brummet's Conscious Blog

Recommended Resources As many of you know I'm a big fan of TED.com talks... and made a deal with myself to complete all the lectures they had. Yes. All 410 or whatever pages ...and there's what, 48 lectures per page... something like that. I've never actually counted. Anyway, I've watched them all. The oldest, the latest. Took me a couple years as I watched/listened when I was doing dishes and scrubbing down the kitchen, dusting or folding laundry etc. Those chores that don't require one's mind. I even did yoga quite a few times choosing TED.com over music. Anyway, that was quite the feat for me, and I've been sharing all the ones that moved me the most, inspired me the most here on the blog whenever I could. There's a few left in my blog content files and today I'm sharing a few of them. I want to start with David Damberger - who worked with Engineers Without Borders and even founded the Calgary (AB, Canada) chapter of that organization, eventua...

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-- Quote of the Day -- “What we do to the land,  We do to ourselves” ~  Wendell Berry -- Positive News --  Kudos to the city of Calgary (Alberta, Canada)!  According to the Recycling Product News magazine, there is a pilot composting project going on in that city -  collecting organics from 7,500 residents in four areas in the city.  In just 16 weeks they’ve collected 710,000 kilograms of organics, while garbage was reduced by 40% compared to the rest of the city! What a fantastic example of what can be done simply by composting! Find Dave and Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, their radio program, blog, and more at: http://brummet.ca * Support the Brummets by telling your friends, clicking those social networking buttons, or visiting the Brummet's Store - and help raise funds for charity as well!