Brummet's Conscious Blog

Its a little strange to be here this morning in front of my monitor with a clear agenda for the day. Usually I can barely keep up to it all - today, I'm actually in a position to Choose what I'll do next. Hmmm.... Even with a fairly light schedule ahead of me, I find myself anxious to get started. My husband is often asking me things like "just how much time have you spent in there today?" - and sometimes... he's right. Still, I find myself so passionate about what I do and I often wake up thinking about how I can improve or enrich the radio shows, blog and so forth. This particular time in our lives is a very difficult time to hit that "off" switch since we have so much going on in regards to creating promo sound bites and getting the website finished in time so that we can dedicate our energies to the new edition of Purple Snowflake Marketing - coming out around Feb 2009. ...Dave, too, is very passionate about what we do... he just has an easier tim...

-- Greening the Publishing Industry -- Eliza beth Eagan Cox was featu red as the guest at Consc ious Discu ssion s radio today - Topic : the green aspec ts of today ’s publi shing indus try. Eliza beth has a passi on for anima ls and the envir onmen t - she has penne d dozen s of corpo rate histo ries for some of Ameri ca’s most prest igiou s compa nies, and she has been a colum nist for Old Calif ornia Gazet te and a schoo l libra rian. With all of this exper ience , Eliza beth certa inly knows her way aroun d the world of writi ng. Green Publi shing - what is that? Why is e- publi shing so incre dible ? What choic es are avail able and how can we as autho rs help influ ence the publi shing indus try? What quest ions shoul d we ask when looki ng into the publi shers green activ ities and choic es? How can we use this infor matio n to promo te our books ? Why is this chang e impor tant? Learn insid er’s insig hts in deali ng with publi shers , publi cists and m...

-- Events this Week -- * Remember: November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Month (USA) 11th – Remembrance Day (International) 12th-14th - Southeast Recycling Development Council Annual Meeting & Trade Show. Location: Point Clear, Alabama; www.serdc.org 15th - I Love To Write Day - Founded in 2002 by Delaware author John Riddle, I Love To Write Day is now celebrated in over 20,000 schools all across the United States. 16th – International Day of Tolerance -- Authors Read Radio -- It was a sincere pleasure to have children's author and substitute teacher Darcie Mae join me today to read from her book, Mother Mouse, on the Authors Read radio show. Darcie Mae has been writing children's stories since 2001. She has completed The Peablys series - which includes 6 books, and has recently released the first installments of 2 other children's series including Sammy & Robert, and Mother Mouse. Some of you may remember Darcie appearing on Authors Read on Oct 10 to read the f...

-- Quote of the Day -- “The earth is too small a planet - and we too brief visitors - for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace.” ~ Colman McCarthy -- Holiday Gift Ideas -- If you feel you have enjoyed our radio shows (Conscious Discussions & Authors Read) our blog, newsletter or articles - please consider our books as a gift for those on your list over the holiday season and whenever gift giving holidays arise. By doing so, you are not only supporting the work we do - you are also helping us support some amazing charities. Check out our site for more information: www.brummet.ca And on that same site we have several articles on green living including one that lists more than a dozen gift ideas to consider. Check that out on the Writing page – via the Media link where new articles and press releases are made available. Alternatively click on the “sample articles” link there at the media page for more articles. Some of you may recall a previous post where I ment...

-- Influencing through Education -- The Japan for Sustainablility Newsletter (www.japanfs.org) shared some interesting innovations being put forth by that region: The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) announced on May 29, 2008, its selection of the winning design for its Uniform Green Energy Mark. By affixing the logo to a product, manufacturers can advertise that their products are made using green energy under the green power certification system. The ministry aims to increase public awareness of its certification system and provide consumers with confidence when buying products made with green power. Isn't this a wonderful and supportive measure? It could really increase the effectiveness and growth of the green movement all over the planet, because it will educate and influence consumers around the globe. Education is so important and literacy is THE most important tool for an individual to increase knowledge and find empathy, sympathy... This is one of the main re...

--Cool Eco News-- Some of you may have already learned of the website I’m about to give you now, I saw it several times on TV commercials and finally I found the time to visit the site – I was so impressed. Take a drive smart quiz, learn how to save hundreds of dollars every month! Check out the amusing, yet educational, videos - I thought these were really well done. www.drivesmartsavegreen.com -- Authors Read radio show -- Our guest today on the Authors Read radio show we enjoyed Maria Andrada's presentation of an excerpted chapter from her children's book: Youngen Finds Her Song, An Inspiring Adventure from the Heart of Nature. Maria has written several other books, with new releases in the future, and tells me that her work focuses on respect for self, community and earth stewardship. Maria is a counselor by trade and her skills played an important role in conveying important issues through her writing for adults and children between ages 7-12. You can easily access today...

-- Conscious Discussions Talk Radio Show -- I am still all hepped up after speaking with Dan Noble today on the Conscious Discussions talk radio show. Most of our readers and listeners are already aware of my passion for composting. Today, however, we learned about composting on a massive scale. What are municipalities doing to create compost? What about waste-to-energy plants? Why do we need to keep organics out of the landfill? How does municipal composting play a role in healthy soil and how does composted biosolids affect "organic certification"? Mr Dan Noble the executive director of the Association of Compost Producers (ACP) organization. He is also the owner of a consultation business called: Noble Resources Group. He is also associated with Inquiry Consulting and Ecobonds . According to the ACP website – www.healthysoil.org – they are “dedicated to increasing the quality, value and amount of compost being used”. I encourage everyone to visit Conscious Discussio...