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Buy Nothing Day  Did you know that Buy Nothing Day was founded by a Canadian artist based in Vancouver back in 1992... it is now an internationally celebrated awareness day, with it's own website:  BuyNothingDay.org It challenges us to evaluate shopping and spending habits, to reduce consumerism, increase the ability to "make-do" and avoid trips to the grocery store, or corner store... So, no sudden dashes for ice cream treats or to buy gas.  Buy Now Some participants will go the extra mile and avoid driving, turning on unnecessary lights, cutting up plastic cards, using a computer or TV or phone... just for the day. It is actually quite the challenge! Buy Now This awareness day helps us consider what we are doing every day and offers advice on the  best ways to save money  from cooking at home and making repairs to cutting coupons.  It is a good time to remind everyone of our award-winning waste, water, energy -wise book series:  Tr...

-- Quote of the Day -- ...De Ja Vu?? ... I seem to remember having posted this quote below already in the past, yet it was in my notes for this blog and I do think that it is worth the risk of repeating myself on this one: "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predatory businesses practices ...and long wasteful supply chains where quality and reparability and reusability have been replaced by the notion that it’s cheaper to buy a new one than keep and fix the old one" *Excerpted from a letter written by Warren Snow via the Zero Waste San Diego Group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 - where he represented the ZWIA and Zero Waste New Zealand organization...

-- Book Release -- Dave and I are thrilled to announce that the first e-book in the Trash Talk - It's Easy To Be Green series is now available. This e-book series is based on the original internationally published column and paperback book; 10% of the proceeds support non-profit organizations! Just this morning, I received a message from our publisher announcing that people can now obtain a copy via this link: http://booklocker.com/books/4968.html This is so new, that I haven't had a chance to update our website yet! I'll get on that right away, though. I've taken the liberty to include a description of the first e-book in the Trash Talk - It's Easy To Be Green series below: Trash Talk - It's Easy To Be Green, Book One empowers you to do what we all should be doing all the time – decreasing your landfill contribution. Imagine if you could see all the trash you generated in your whole lifetime trailing behind you like a human jet stream of filth. A...

  -- Quote of the Day -- " Too many people spend money They haven't earned, To buy things they don't want, To impress people they don't like ." ~Will Rogers -- Authors Read Radio -- Drop by the Authors Read radio show today to hear me read a random sample from: Purple Snowflake Marketing - How To Make Your Book Stand Out In A Crowd , is a reference guide for self-marketing authors who want to be noticed in a snowstorm of writers. With 19 chapters and 25 appendices, this book is a means for authors to design an effective marketing plan and utilize frugal promotional tools with the click of their mouse. Whether it is utilized by order of chapters or randomly at the reader's discretion the book is a marketing plan in itself. Accelerate your marketing efforts far beyond your peers with the more than 900 resources available with the click of your mouse! Purple Snowflake Marketin g provides reassurance to authors along with ample advice for avo...

-- Quote of the Day -- " If we are flexible and pragmatic, if we can resolve to work tirelessly in common effort, then we will achieve our common purpose: a world that is safer, cleaner and healthier than the one we found; and a future that is worthy of our children " ~ Barack Obama -- Conscious Discussions Radio -- Cheryl Kerr has published columns, essays and articles in newspapers and periodicals. She has also published a book on employment law. To access today's broadcast of The World of Writing with Cheryl Kerr , click on the show title here or look to the right to find recently aired episodes of the Conscious Discussions talk radio show. -- Thoughtful Consumerism -- Last Xmas my sister-in-law handed me a xmas card that was made in such a way that at the end of the season the recipient could tear it into two bookmarks and reuse the card for many more months as bookmarks. It was also printed with soy inks and on FSC paper. I still remember that card several months l...