Brummet's Conscious Blog

Recommended Resources World Wide Water Education's Project Wet   explores ways to advance water education, understand global challenges and inspire local solutions. http://projectwet.org - Wascana Marsh is a unique wetland in the heart of Regina, Saskatchewan, which has a lot to offer outdoor education. Friends of Wascana Marsh strive to preserve and enhance the biodiversity of the marsh habitat and provide outdoor nature-based educational interpretive opportunities to promote ecotourism and environmental sustainability within an urban setting. http://www.wascanamarsh.ca - ~~~   Discover Our Books on Amazon : https://amazon.com/author/lillianbrummet   Find us online via these landing pages:  https://taplink.cc/brummet  https://linktr.ee/LillianBrummet ~~~ 

Recommended Resources The Saskatchewan Archaeological Societ y is dedicated to the education and conservation of archaeology.  http://thesas.ca - Growing Up Wild - a great educational project that explores nature with children and youth: http://www.projectwild.org/growingupwild.htm - Junior Forest Wardens is an exciting and educational opportunity for young people and their families to have fun, develop skills, and get educated in the many and diverse aspects of our natural environment.  http://www.ajfwa.ca ~~~   Discover Our Books on Amazon : https://amazon.com/author/lillianbrummet   Find us online via these landing pages:  https://taplink.cc/brummet  https://linktr.ee/LillianBrummet ~~~ 

Recommended Resources New Brunswick Environmental Network connects over 90 nonprofit organizations to improve communication and cooperation or collaboration on a variety of projects.  http://www.nben.ca - New Hope Dog Rescue is a volunteer-run place for rescuing unwanted, stray, abandoned or neglected dogs within the Saskatoon region (Canada).  http://www.newhopedogrescue.net - Ki-Low-Na Friendship Society has served the region since 1974 with a wide variety of programs for parents, immigrants, counselling or legal advocacy services, employment support, subsidized housing projects and more.  http://www.kfs.bc.ca ~~~   Discover Our Books on Amazon : https://amazon.com/author/lillianbrummet   Find us online via these landing pages:  https://taplink.cc/brummet  https://linktr.ee/LillianBrummet ~~~ 

Kudo's to the amazing work this one organization, and all their awesome volunteers, accomplished in 2019!! Pollinator Partnership Canada 's Year in Review! - planted over 6000 native flowers, grasses and shrubs with over 1000 students from 16 different schools - successfully concluded a two-year project across Ontario that saw the creation of 49 new monarch habitat sites, including school gardens, natural areas restorations, and 20 farms - conducted over 20 outreach events in Ontario, British Columbia, and Newfoundland informing the public about the importance of pollinators and ways to help them - developed and launched the Canadian School Garden and Curriculum Kit - presented case studies at the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s workshop on Pollinator Habitat Restoration on Rights-of-Way in Ottawa - launched the Youth Pollinator Leadership Team in Victoria, BC - established 2 pollinator gardens in the City of Victoria in Community Gardens, along with educati...

Recommended Resources For those of you who may not already be aware, I have created 2 pages on this blog that offer quite a few resources for people to check out. These pages are constantly being updated, so keep dropping by when you have a chance to see what's changed.  To find the various pages on our blog - notice the little tabs just under the title heading "Brummet's Conscious Blog" and you'll find several different pages there - including the two resource pages.  One offers links to nonprofit organizations within the Creston Valley region of the Kootenays (BC, Canada. I put this one together so that volunteers or people involved in fundraising events, community events and the like can network with the existing organizations. Likewise the organizations are encouraged to network with one another. Also tourists and visitors have the opportunity to find tours and other things to do.  The other page is a list of mostly music and art relate...

Recommended Resources For those of you new to our blog... this series of posts recommends positive and conscious living, inspiring, educational resources that will get you motivated to continue creating a better world - right where you are, with whatever skills and resources you have.  Today we'll focus on three non-profit organizations! -- Filling little bellies, growing little hearts and little minds one kiddo at a time. ... Grow Our Kids is an all-volunteer, 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization born in North Carolina.   http://www.growourkids.org/ -- Book Harvest provides books to children in central North Carolina and engages families and communities to promote children’s lifelong literacy and academic success. Having plenty of books at home helps children start kindergarten ready to learn, combat summer learning loss once they are in school, and identify as readers. http://bookharvestnc.org/ -- ...

 -- Quote of the Day --  “We started in Jonathon Jakes Childrens Cancer Center and we started adding elements and bringing friends in and then we were able to expand and bring in another hospital and we kept going and we are now in 7 hospitals serving 3500 children and their families every year.  It has been quite an experience especially for a choreographer, so I had a very large learning curve, but I felt so blessed every day because I was able to grasp what we were doing… the thought of children sick or dying was something I just didn’t want to expose myself to, but what happened was that I went in to help them but those children ended up blessing me. …The kids they just want to be normal, so when we go in we really try to give them normalcy – so when they come in to Discovery Arts they get to choose a new costume; we have make up and face painting, we have a theme art project, we do music, we have guest artists, we dance… One of the best things we came u...

 -- Referral Corner --  Well, it is time for another batch of recommended resources that we hope you'll take the time to check out.  Feel Good : A youth movement committed to ending world hunger in our lifetime.The organization offers a sense of community, hunger education, a diverse network of youth and young professionals, fundraising events and more. Info : http://www.feelgood.org BC Sustainable Energy Association : A network of citizens, businesses and governments working to put innovative sustainable energy solutions into practice - from safe distribution to solar power systems, home and condo retrofit programs, education programs for youth and more. Info : http://www.bcsea.org The Wilderness Land Trust : A small, highly specialized non-profit organization established to buy and protect wilderness land. Since it was founded in 1992, the non-profit organization has preserved more than 344 parcels comprising of more than 31,000 acres...

-- Quote of the Day --    “I don’t have a car or a TV or an iPad, so when I walk around  I experience the world and I am a part of the world  and it makes me happier to be getting exercise  and getting sunlight and interacting with other people  in a way I don’t think would be humanly possible  if I lived in a car and commuted 2 hours a day.” ~ Ellen Quigley Find the full discussion with Ellen via: http://tobtr.com/s/4660327 -- Referral Corner -- This section of our blog allows us a chance to celebrate and recommend some of the amazing non-profits out there... Sports Gift is focused on providing sports to impoverished and disadvantaged children throughout the world and promoting sports related community service Info : http://SportsGift.org --   National Youth Leadership Council transforms classrooms, empowered teachers, and captivated students by leadin...

-- 2 Great Non-Profits for Veterans & those in Service -- G4U was the created through the efforts of Sharon Kreh.  "Sharrie" is a true believer in supporting our troops.  The service men and women in serve in "harm's way". Certainly, she has a connection to the military: two sons and a daughter in law who graduated from West Point.   G4U began in 2004 with a group of volunteers from Sharrie's community - Innsbrook, MO (USA).  It is the goal of G4U to send "goodie bags" out every month.  Items such as cereal bars, toiletries, snacks, a book, tube socks,  washcloths , magazine, etc. and even a small toy for the soldiers to share with local children.  All of these items are donated, even the hand sewn drawstring bags that are used as the goodie bags.  Since 2005 over 30,000 goodie bags have been mailed.  Money to offset the cost of mailing these items overseas is an ongoing need.   Notes of gratitude from those w...