Brummet's Conscious Blog

* Today is your last chance to enter the draw for this week's prize. Entry deadline is noon on Saturday, April 11th. This week’s prize: hardcover children’s illustrated book titled: Sikulu and Harambe by the Zambezi River *Signed by the author, Kunle Oguneye. Retail value between $12-15 depending on where you shop! Email me at ldbrummet-at-yahoo-dot-com (* replace the "-at-" with "@", and the "-dot-" with ". ") To enter: tell me the name of the featured guest and the topic for the April 2nd broadcast of Conscious Discussions radio. Draw will be on Saturday Afternoon…April 11th. -- Quote of the Day -- “… If I don’t write, things just don’t feel right. I love being immersed in words, I’ve always had an overactive imagination and find myself asking “what if…?”. Which can get me in trouble sometimes, I’ll send stuff to my agent and she’ll say ‘No-no, no’. (she giggles). …When I was first starting out as a writer the people around me were not ver...

-- Quote of the Day -- "The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command." ~ Sam McGee of 'Lord of the Rings' by J.R. Tolken -- Positive Eco-News -- From Japan for Sustainability Newsletter: www.japansf.org Japan's Toshiba Corporation announced on December 3, 2008, that it will accelerate the development of its carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and storage (CCS) technology by building a pilot plant at Sigma Power Ariake Co. Ltd.'s Mikawa Power Plant, in Omuta, Fukuoka Prefecture. CCS is a technology that separates and captures CO2 emitted by thermal power plants and many other industrial sites, and then stores it underground. Construction is scheduled to start in the spring of 2009, and a demonstration test using real flue gas is expected to begin in August. -- Conscious Discussions -- Today featured guest: Joan Scott – Topic: " World of Writng with Joa...

-- Quote of the Day -- "In the past 3 years (1991-94) 950 varieties of vegetables have become extinct and of the survivors 74% - or almost 4,000 varieties - are endangered." ~ Ann Rodes article: 'The Seed Savers', Canadian Gardening Magazine -- Gardening for Life -- article © Lillian Brummet Have you ever noticed how happy and centered gardeners tend to be? Could it be from communing with nature, sharing nutrient-rich harvests with others, or knowing that every increased amount of greenery helps battle the environmental problems our world faces? For me, playing in the dirt - as I often refer to gardening - is just that. Play time, time for meditation and to listen to the birds. Yet, gardening can mean so much more. For many years, my family has been dedicated to preserving rare and endangered garden seeds. We tried the hybrids, but after a while we realized they were just not performing like the old varieties. Whether it was small yields or poor tolerance to heat wa...

-- Conscious Discussions -- Today’s guest has a lot of information to share… Brook Kelley has been a professional writer/researcher for 8 years, 4 years as an editor for magazines and books, 15 years of photography work with prestigious magazines as Elle Girl and Glamour. In her 10 years experience as a speaker she focuses on inspiring and motivating others to make a difference in the world. We are going to talk about all of this, and a wonderful organization that fights injustice on human rights across the planet – known as the Unify Organization. Tune in by clicking on the hyper-linked show title here or look to the right for a link to the Conscious Discussions talk radio show. -- Announcement -- Check out the interview with the Brummets via the Author Interviews link at: www.mcolesworks.webs.com/thewritecorner.htm -- Prize Contest!! -- You may recall that we’ve been putting out announcements for prizes every week on Conscious Discussions. Well, as promised we are starting off with...

-- Quote of the Day -- “ Freedom is not doing what you want to do, but in becoming what you want to be ” ~ Ardis Whitman -- Authors Read -- Elizabeth Eagan Cox appears on Authors Read radio this morning to share and excerpt from book two of the Shannon Delaney Cozy Paranormal Mystery series - A Ghost From the Shadows . *The reading for book 1 of this series aired on : Oct 17, 2008 To access the Authors Read radio simply click on one of the hyper-links here or look to the right for a link to the website. --Garbage in its Place -- There is nothing worse than seeing garbage blowing down the street of your neighborhood, or finding broken shards of glass at the local swimming hole where children play. Wildlife is just as vulnerable to garbage and many have lost their lives after becoming tangled in waste or mistaking garbage for food. It is up to each of us to make an effort to minimize this unsightly, and sometimes hazardous, problem. Animals, wind and traffic breezes put legs to loose...

-- Quote of the Day -- “ …Once {a person has} learned that one of their close community of friends or one of their loved ones has been diagnosed with a potential devastating diagnosis such as cancer - there is a real powerful way to be about it. Rather than walking into that space of ‘I don’t know what to do; I don’t know what to say; I am helpless and surrounded by uncertainty’ - there is a real powerful way to be. And those people need to find the power to overcome those normal ways of being, which are helplessness and uncertainty… and to understand that even if they say nothing but just their simply presence alone in the house with the person after they have been diagnosed is a tremendous support. No one should underestimate of the extent that they can positively affect a person’s life simply with their presence… ” ~ Amy Blackburn – Jan 8, 2009 -- Find this interview with Amy by clicking on the link for the Conscious Discussions radio show, look to the archives listed according t...

-- Quote of the Day -- "As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up." ~ Alice Walker -- Eco-Events -- * Register by April 8th for The TENTH Annual San Diego Regional School Garden and Nutrition Conference, "Gardening with Class" ,will take place on Saturday, April 18, 2009 at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. The conference is geared toward teachers and administrators who have or would like to start a school garden program. Workshops will cover a wide variety of topics, all with strong connections to educational teaching standards. Teachers will also have the option to tour a nearby school garden as one of their workshop options. Attendees receive a continental breakfast, lunch, educational resources, door prizes, ...MORE INFO: http://www.rcdsandi ego.org/programs /schoolgardens. html *April 5-8: 36th National Demolition...