Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Quote of the Day -- “ …As a business owner you have a responsibility to your shareholders in regards to properly manage the business not only top line revenue but also the costs and part of the costs is waste management. …(Businesses) should engage in a waste management/waste reduction program not because it makes you feel good but also because it has a positive influence on your ability to manage not only your business but your profitability. …The (Renovos) program takes waste from the coffee industry – coffee is the 2nd largest next to oil in the world! Many of these roasters bring in pallets and pallets of these burlap bags of beans. …The main roaster that we have today discards 4-8 tones of burlap a month. So we work with that material (to create products that) …promote the use of reusable products.” ~ Douglas Farquhar – Feb 5, 2009 This interview, with Douglas Farquhar, aired on the Conscious Discussions talk radio show on Feb 5, 2009. We focused our discussion on The Business...

-- Quote of the Day -- "No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking." ~ Ruth Benedict -- Lillian on Green-T Hour Radio ! -- Dave & I were invited to appear on the Green-T hour radio show with host, Guy Chapman, which airs at 7 PM (Pacific): www.blogtalkradio.com/Green-T-Hour " Toboa Radio is operated via the Toboa Energy Resources LLC - a renewable energy company with focus on private and commercial electric power resources through the application of wind and solar power. ...Our goal is to help others by empowering the right of life, liberty, and self determination through self reliance and personal awareness ." - http://toboaenergy.com -- Today on Conscious Discussions Radio -- Legally blind from birth and a two-time breast cancer survivor - Donna Hill is a writer, speaker, singer and has 3 albums of original music so far. Her volunteer efforts and speaking engagements ...

-- Quote of the Day -- “…The bottom line is there are no guardians. Period. …There is nobody watching over us. We have been lulled into this sense of security… What controls our countries is the almighty dollar; …people are concerned with making larger profits. …You cannot rely on other people to tell you that a product is safe because it is not… Out of 100 products on lining a shelf …I have to plan ahead when I go on vacation so that I can go to a natural health store and by a safe brand (of sun screen). …We don’t have to change our life, we just have to change our brands …Take bread for instance, bread has a lot of chemicals in it. …They’ll have things like potassium bromate, I even saw parabin recently; there is crap in our bread! …You have to go through the whole bread isle read every ingredient and pick the brand that is safe …and that will be your brand. …That’s going to keep you much safer and healthier, just by switching brands - not necessarily mean overhauling your life. …I ...

-- Quote of the Day -- "Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." ~ Carl Jung, psychologist -- Water, Water - Everywhere??? -- Ok, I promise this is the last post that I will do to help honor the World Water Day awareness celebrations that occurred recently. In this short post, I'd like to offer dates to you of special episodes on the Conscious Discussions radio program that focused on water. July 10, 2007 - Rain Collection Systems Aug 7, 2007 - Water Conservation in Summer Jan 10, 2008 - Clean Water-ways Jan 31, 2008 - Flushable/compostable Infant & Adult Diapers Feb 26, 2008 - Composting Toilets July 27, 2008 - Wye Marsh Wildlife Center Jan 22, 2009 - Desalination Plants: Answer to Water Woes? -- Conscious Discussions Talk Radio -- Today's featured guest: Kristi Jones operates a ranch for abandoned dogs & horses in Southern Missouri (USA). Her book, Stories from Black Dog Ranch,...

-- Quote of the Day -- I chose the quote below due to last week's blog posts on conscious eco-travel and stay-cation alternatives: “…And you don’t have to be a trained teacher by any means… you just need to speak the language. …Whatever you are good at they may branch out to include that, but typically there is very little training involved [in volunteer adventure travel]. …Most of these organizations know how important safety is – in many cases they provide insurance for you. …They are going to lean over backwards to make sure that everything is prepared; you are in their hands. Now it is different if you do your own solo volunteer adventure. I would check the travel safety warnings online, follow heath precautions – you know take the necessary shots, take malaria medication with me, etc. …I tend to go to developing countries where the value of a dollar goes a lot farther. I find them more interesting also. …I am not into buying souvenirs, but I do try to bring back some memory-pr...

-- Quote of the Day -- "Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies is dependent upon Her and all must hopelessly perish if that Earth dies that feeds us." ~ Viktor Schauberger -- World Water Day continues... -- World Water Day happens annually in March on this weekend, some regions celebrate it all week, others celebrate the holiday for one day, usually just Saturday or Sunday. Here, as I mentioned yesterday, we are celebrating this important day of awareness all weekend long. There are a number of activities we can do to honor of this important day of water awareness. Here’s a great resource that offers numerous tips for reducing wasteful consumption of water: http://lighterfootstep.com/2009/03/weekend-project-reduce-water-waste It can sometimes be difficult to visualize the importance and direct effect simple conservation efforts can have when we are bombarded with negative information regu...

-- Quote of the Day -- “…That is why it {water} comes down to armed conflict in the end… People feel that strongly about it. And it becomes an ethics issue; deciding if this is an issue of who can afford the water or a basic human right… Everyone has the right to a clean environment and the right to life. And without food, water & shelter you loose your right to life. …It becomes a class verses human rights issue. That is why I advocate Desalination technology - it is not just people along the ocean that can use the technology, people inland can use it too. …Desalination plants take up a lot of area. …It involves the removal of salt from seawater. They can also clean brackish ground water. …One of the oldest {methods of desalination} is simply solar evaporation, which is what they used to use on ships in the old days. Around the world there are at least 1500 that use the distillation (a.k.a. evaporation)… this is a longer process, but …is one of the simpler methods that does not c...