Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Quote of the Day --  "Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live." ~ Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -- Positive News --  In our Trash Talk - It's Easy To Be Green book series we have a section that focuses on clothing... there are so many ways to reuse, repurpose and even recycle clothing! And as a consumer we can buy used or buy new clothing with recycled content. I was recently reading an article (  http://tinyurl.com/q95mmg6 ) about the Die Kop Swop Shop  a new business that focuses encouraging recycling through a clothing and stationery exchange. The store staff and volunteers show participants a variety of items that are made from recyclable products, creating dialogue about the importance of recycling. Women and children bring in recyclables that they've spent time collecting around their homes, streets and neighborhoods and in exchange are given blan...

  Synthetic Dye and Its Impact on the Environment By Sarah Yeoh  Since the accidental discovery of the first synthetic dye, mauve, made from coal by William Henry Perkins in 1856, the use of natural dyes begin to phase out. And why not? Synthetic dyes are more colour fast, have a wide spectrum of colours that can be easily and accurately reproduced, cost less and can impart qualities such as making the cloth wrinkle free or even having a permanent, fashionable crease. It does seem quite the novel invention but have you ever paused to think; just what you are wearing actually harms the environment? Let us take a look at the ingredients used for manufacturing synthetic dye. Synthetic dye is usually made from aniline or chrome. While dyes made from aniline are less poisonous than aniline on its own, we need to think how aniline can impact not just the environment but the workers involved in the manufacturing process. Aniline's level of toxicity is not known ...

-- Quote of the Day -- " Sometimes when I consider  what tremendous consequences  come from little things, I am tempted to think  there are no little things ." ~ Bruce Barton -- Conscious Discussions Radio -- Today on Conscious Discussions Talk Radio show I will be interviewing Tala Rezai of Fashionable Earth - a nonprofit organization based in California focusing on eco-friendly design and sustainable fashion. The business motto is: “ to reduce, reuse and restyle ”. Learn about different types of fabrics, and the manufacturing process of clothing – which is greener? Safer for us? Healthier for the planet? What to look for when wanting to support sustainable, conscious companies… All of this and more will be covered - Join us live, or access the archived interview, by clicking on this link: Eco-friendly Fashion Choices Find Dave and Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, information about their radio shows and free resources and more at: www.brumm...

-- Writer Interview # 14 --  Lily Oak: the creator of www.hedge-witchery.com and run Hedge Witchery Books. Her current projects include a first full length fiction as well as shorter creative peices and pagan articles for various sites and e-zines. I also contributed to and published 'Hope Moon' a charity book for Haiti. Q. What is your idea of happiness? Lot's of things... usually depending on my mood at the time. There are however a few things that I find bliss incarnate! The first sip of tea in the morning. Absolute silence... but not for too long. The smell of rain. Fat, green, stone-left-in olives.  Q. Are you doing what you really want to do in life? Not entirley, but I'm heading in that direction. A lot of people say the real joy is in the journey, and I think they are probably right. Q. In your career as a writer - what do you consider to be your greatest strengths and weaknesses? I think my strength is setting a scene, creating a mood, p...