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World Water Day  World Water Day was set aside by the UN to highlight the importance of clean fresh water. Events focus on water conservation, education, sustainable projects for the management of fresh water resources, beach clean up projects and river-side replanting projects, and invasive species volunteer groups heading out to eradicate unwanted plants that will choke out native species. The first World Water Day was officially held in 1993 and is now celebrated across the planet. Consider picking up a copy of our Trash Talk book series which addresses many ways of conserving the amount of water we use, reusing old water and reducing water use. For instance, one might save the water from cooking potatoes; once cool, it can be used to feed outdoor plants.  Hot water from the canner can be used to kill weeds in the driveway, gravel walkways and sidewalks. Refuse to buy bottled water and instead buy several refillable ones. Install a water purifier machine under ...

-- Apologies... -- Apologies to our blog readers - Thanks to all who wrote to let me know that the link on yesterday's post for the interview on Book Cubby was not working correctly. I have edited yesterday's post so it should be working now. And here's that link for the interview once again... (sorry about the error!) -  http://www.thebookcubby.com/authorinterviews.htm  -- Water  Awareness -- Today, June 8th, is World Oceans Day - and we are also in the middle of Rivers to Oceans Week . Appropriate - I suppose with what is going on in the oil industry... but they are far from the only polluters. Of course this last disaster is really beyond imagining and we might look at something like that, such as industries pouring pollutions or cities and boats pouring sewage into the ocean, and we might start feeling like the little things we are doing won't make a difference. But they really do.  Awareness celebrations for waterways are a great opportunity to increa...

-- Quote of the Day -- “ I’ve seen the richness of the Amazon forest and the horrifying sight of the bare red earth where it had been torn away… One person may not be able to change things but together we can ”  ~ Stephen Fry May's Schedule  May's Schedule is now online here... You can view our schedule a week at a glance here:   http://blog.myspace.com/canadianauthor And a month-at-a-glance here: http://booktour.com/author/lillian_dave_brummet   -- Conscious Living Events -- Waste Expo 2010 Date: May 3 Location: Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA  (USA) Info: www.wasteexpo.com Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries convention & Exposition Date: May 4 Location: San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA (USA) Info: www.isriconvention.org IFAT China Location: Shanghai New International Expo Centre Shanghai, China Info: www.ifat-china.com -- May is World Water Awareness Month -- Ca...