Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Recommended Resources --  Theme of the day - Food Our choice of what we order from restaurants or menu choice at home has a huge impact on local economy and impacts the entire globe, in fact. Many of us have already read that reducing the amount of meat we consume per meal can improve our health, reduce household and medical costs, and reduce our personal contribution to both the landfill and to the environment as a whole. Just a few weeks ago I wrote a brief article here on the blog re: food waste. You'll find I'm passionate about that topic and have done many interviews, articles, book chapters, radio shows and of course blog posts on the topic. Similarly with gardening and food production. I encourage you to take the time to search through old blog posts or do your own search online on these topics.  Long-time followers will have already witnessed our transitions from my vegetarian to our both eating meat, to our both being vegetarian and for a short t...

-- Quote of the Day --    “… There are about 200 Silesians species, 800 newts and salamanders, and 6000 frogs and toads, (currently known about). …Frogs are really neat because they have a lot of different parental strategies, some may lay 3000 eggs and they are left on their own, but a lot of the species only lay 100 eggs, so in order to have a greater survival rate they will have different parental strategies. …Males will hold them in their mouth, in their vocal sacs, or the female will swallow the eggs and shut down production of her gastric juices until they hatch and then she will spit them out. …There has been about 200 frog extinctions in the last decade.   …Atrizine is one pesticide that we are working on getting banned, one of the most commonly used pesticide on the planet – but it is illegal in the entire European Union. …it doesn’t decay very well at all, and it causes immune-suppression, hermaphitism, and even complete sex reversal...