Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Kudos --  Kudos to the Toyota Motor Corporation who created the Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050 plan – to reduce negative impacts of today’s motorized vehicles and better yet, to increase the positive impact they can have.  The aim is to cut C02 by 90% and recyclability will be increased to 100% by 2050.  The company plans to increase renewable energy, water and hydrogen reduction policies.  You may have heard of the company’s environmental programs, however I think you’ll hear more about them in the future since the company is expanding projects that focus on nature conservation. Award-winning authors Dave & Lillian Brummet: Visit us on:  Twitter FaceBook LinkedIn Google http://BrummetMedia.ca (new site, under maintenance)

Graphics on Vehicles  * Today's article was written by Urvi Tandon, who invites you to visit these links for more information re: vehicle signage or vehicle graphics. Ever wondered of how you can use your car for the purpose of marketing?  Vehicle graphics is the latest trend that can be used effectively to market and also promote your business. This process can easily transform your ordinary vehicle into a very cost- effective tool in order to raise the visibility of your business. It doesn't matter whether your business has a single car or a dozen of vans, by using the custom vehicle graphics, you can easily wrap up your car with all the graphics related to your business or organization and let the public know about it. In simple terms, you can make the vehicle graphics a part of your overall plan of visual communication and reach a lot of customers in a very short span of time. Different types of vehicle graphics: Fl...

-- Used oil and its effects on the environment --   * Today's article was written by: Greg Chapman of Greg Chapman Motors - a knowledgeable and leading provider of used cars, trucks, and SUV’s. Since 1959, Chapman Motors has supplied reliable used cars in Austin and the surrounding . For more information please visit www.gregchapmanmotors.com .   Motor oil leaked from individual vehicles—or outright dumped by homeowners and commercial garages inevitably finds its way into local water bodies. Topsoil and natural vegetation would ordinarily filter many of these pollutants out, but the impermeable pavement that covers much of the surface where these pollutants originate carries it right into storm drains and into streams, rivers, lakes and the ocean where it can poison marine life—which we might eat—as well as entire riparian or coastal ecosystems. This pollution also finds its way into underground aquifers that supply our drinking water, s...

 -- Quote of the Day -- "To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle."  ~ Lisa Alther  -- Positive Eco-News -- Kudos to Balfour Towing & Salvage & owner Eric Etelamaki  - a Kootenay towing company (BC, Canada) - that has stockpiled over 300 vehicles and is now processing them for recycling. On his own, he researched and came up with a fluid extraction system and crushing system – incorporating the SEDA fluid evacuation technology – using powerful pumps and barrels for proper storage of fluids like antifreeze and oil, removing and separating mercury switches, batteries, tires and more …which are then picked up by recycling companies. The last process is the crushing system that compacts the vehicle shells and then they are shipped to metal recyclers.  This inspiring example of a company going above and beyond, despite isolated location limitati...

 -- Quote of the Day -- "Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear - but around you in awareness." ~ Ross Hersey -- Positive Eco-News -- We hear a lot of bad news about the vehicle industry - but there are a lot of in-house changes going on in vehicle manufacture operations to celebrate.  While there are likely many other vehicle manufacturers offering green options and green in-house activities, I'd like to highlight one that I read recently about in the Recycling Product Newsletter that a Volvo Truck can have as much as 1/3 of it’s weight in recycled metals. Some of the best and usable parts are sold, others are separated in bins for iron, aluminum, plastics, copper, brass and the like. They say that not one bolt or piece of wire, not one scrap of a used truck goes to the landfill when it hits their recycling centers. In doing so they’ve been able to refine the manufacturing of new trucks to eliminate time or labor issues involved in ...

-- 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 -- “ When we speak we speak, we speak from our own world, and the person listening is hearing it from their world. …A lot of times when the conversations are emotion filled – it is at those times when we need to stop and …consciously think about how we want to come across. So I if I give off a lot of negative behavior they will see this and not hear what I am saying. …85% of what we believe is what we see not what we hear. So when we are speaking we need to have the body language that supports our words. …Many times you’ll hear ‘It is not what you say but how you say it’. …Taking the time to reflect on how I can best tell this person what I need to say so that our relationship is not destroyed. …There is a tendency for us to believe that two monologues is a dialogue – but it is not. A dialogue is when each person understands that there is a vested interest in the relationship, in the message that is being sent, the response and in how we are both going to feel when ...

-- Prize Draw -- Congratulations to Virginia - last week's prize winner - who won a copy of Rick Niece's memoir novel: The Side-Yard Superhero This next prize draw is for June 22 - July 5. Deadline July 5, 12 noon (pacific). Prizes to be won: Rick Glaze's novel: Middle Fork & Dawn Menge's children's book: Queen Vernita's Visitors (book one of a series) To enter in the random draw for these prizes simply email me with the word "prize" in the subject line at: ldbrummet@yahoo.com... it is that easy! -- Vehicle Emissions -- All over the world people are experiencing air quality changes due to vehicle emissions. Particularly in the peak of summer, cities have worsening air quality to the point where it has become “normal” to hear air quality warnings. In Pakistan, vehicle emissions are responsible for nearly 90% of their air pollution. That is no wonder when you consider that 500 mature trees are needed to combat the emissions for every 20,000 km drive...