Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Time Management -- Today's Conscious Discussions Talk Radio show features Karen Leland, a partner of the Sterling Consulting and Marketing Group – an international management consulting firm. Her knowledge of the world of marketing and time management will definitely appeal to small business owners and entrepreneurs, parents ...and really anyone who wants to manage their time better. The show airs live from 10-11 AM (pacific) and we'll have the chat room open for our live listeners, as always. The archive of today's interview will load shortly after the broadcast airs, and will be available for anyone around the globe to listen to at their convenience. Simply click on the hyper-linked show title (above) or look to the right for links to the Conscious Discussions Talk Radio show. -- Solar - A Hot Topic -- I first heard of this project (below) through a Twitter acquaintance; article location: http://solar.coolerplanet.com "... According to a Bloomberg News report, ...

- - Congratulations to Literacy Bridge Org - - One of our eco-friends, Forrest Carman, sent us the press release (below) about an incredible achievment for a fantastic organization - Literacy Bridge . Those of you who are regular listeners of Conscious Discussions Talk Radio might recall hearing about this organization in the past. Click on - Literacy Bridge -or head over to the radio show and look through the archives from there. This particluar interview aired on Feb 24, 2009. Literacy Bridge, a non-profit organization that provides children and adults with tools for knowledge sharing and literacy learning, today announced the receipt of a $25,000 grant award from Amazon.com. The grant will primarily support Literacy Bridge’s ongoing pilot program in rural Ghana, and will help the organization conduct user experience testing and impact evaluation for its Talking Book program. Since January 2009, hundreds of Ghanaian school children have used Literacy Bridge’s audio computers, or T...

-- Quote of the Day -- “ Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter .” ~Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Celebrating Diversity, Conservation & Eco-inventions -- September is Biodiversity & Conservation Month !! Recently a Twitter-friend put out some information on a great article that was posted on Planetizen - www.planetizen.com " A new study from the UK Royal Society has determined that geo-engineering techniques are technically feasible approaches to address high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the resulting global warming. ...The group did, however, caution that the viability of these techniques should not dissuade governments from other policies aimed at cutting emissions and energy use... or divert governments away from their efforts to reduce carbon emissions ." Apparently the group is looking at a variety of inventions from equipment that can scrub the air clean of CO2 and space equipment that can reflect the sun's r...

-- Events & Celebrations -- I hope that everyone had a relaxing long weekend ;) For those of you who are not already aware, here in Canada we just celebrated Labor Day - which is a time when we honor those who strove for a better workplace, better rights and health care for workers. In this time of economic strife, especially here in BC where we have the highest cost of living AND the lowest minimum wage in Canada - we can use this time to re-evaluate where our nation is right now and where we are heading in the future. September is National Prevention Month and National Ovarian Cancer Month - you will likely be seeing many articles in your favorite publications in the next few weeks dealing with these topics. -- Bringing Back Wildlife -- * Source: Japan For Sustainability Organization www.Japanfs.org Sapporo Maruyama Zoo (Hokkaido, Japan) launched the Steller's Sea Eagle Program in autumn 2008 under the Wildlife Restoration Project , with the aim of protecting the environment...

-- Congratulations! -- Congratulations to last week's prize draw winners - Virginia, who will receive a copy of Grooveyard's CD Place in Time - Judy, who will receive an autographed copy of Lily Stephen's novel The El-eventh Hour - Dawn, who will receive a signed copy of Susan Finelli's novel Behind the Shadows -- This week's prize contest has begun! -- Announcing our new prize draw contest... Between Sept 8 - Ending on Sept 13 we are accepting entries for the following prizes: * Jane Stanfield's nonficition book Mapping Your Volunteer Vacation Info at: www.janestanfieldwish.com -&- * a copy of the recently revised edition of Towards Understanding . Genre: Poetry, e-book format, 125 poems in chronological order. Info at: www.brummet.ca/towards.html To enter the draw all you need to do is: Email me at: ldbrummet @ yahoo . com (remove spaces before sending) with the word "prize" in the subject line. Deadline will be Sept 13th - noon (pacific). -- A...

-- Quote of the Day -- “This is the fun of writing, being able to investigate all different arenas. …I love the fact that I have to go do research and discover whole new areas. …Quality of product, to me, is an assistant to marketing – it is so much easier to market a book that you feel good about. …I had to learn so much; I had to figure out the distribution… how to get into stores and do book signings, where to do releases and how to get reviews on line… The best advice I could give out there is to enter awards. I think entering awards is paramount. …the doors that awards open up are amazing… it gives it the seal of confidence – so it says to the reviewer, blog owner, etc that “you are not wasting your time in taking this guy/or woman seriously”. …Don’t think you’re just going to send blog owners a letter to blog owner (etc) and say “hey I have a book out there, take a look at it”. You have to have a whole distribution system in place to get them a copy to them and work with them. ...

-- Writing Article, by Lillian Brummet -- I was invited to provide a guest posting for this writing blog: http://howtogetthinandfamous.blogspot.com - My article shares tips about the practical and organizational side of running a writing business of any kind. In this article, " Common Courtesy & Strong Organization Skills Accelerate Publicity Efforts ", I discuss how to manage your files, the importance of common courtesy and more. Check it out by clicking on one of the links above. -- The Book Cubby -- Yesterday, I was sent a notice by Zetta Hupf, owner of The Book Cubby to let me know that our radio show, Conscious Discussions , is featured on her site. She invited me via email to send some information about us for her site and I thought she might be looking at putting a link to one of our books... but instead she did this lovely featured spot that sits on the left hand side of her site where everyone can see it. You can view it by clicking on the hyper-link above. -...