Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Quote of the Day -- “ When we worked in Japan (& Indonesia) we encountered that being green is already incorporated into the culture – that people recognize the negative impact of their behavior. …When we green an event it is not just our responsibility to ensure that vendors are using recyclables, and bio-degradables, and diverting as much away from the landfill as possible – but it is also a part of our legacy to work with the event to create a program and to train the volunteers who sign up to educate the consumer and sort trash. …It is a personal legacy that we are trying to leave behind by inspiring and educating. …We have an incredible team that deals with sponsors and exhibitors… we ensure a festival attracts the greenest, most ethical companies… Where we need to go as an industry is to plan, in advance – so we would work with the municipalities to consider their water issues, evaluate things like stage construction projects... We also look at product replacement, food an...

-- Conscious Celebrations -- * For those of you who are interested, we have interviewed or featured experts that cover the topics that these holidays highlight below & have taken the liberty to list them under each holiday. Simply click on the show title to find each episode. October is: Domestic Violence Month Inner city youth; a safe place to socialize Youth violence - what can we do? Bridging cultures & influencing youth Helping Families on the run Strategies for Peace with In-laws Breast Cancer Awareness Month Cancer Activist Cancer; alternatives & prevention Cancer and Death: A Love Story in Two Voices Caregiving: Breast Cancer Cancer: Hope from Survivor's Wisdom Lupus Awareness Month Lupus, what is it & how can we help? Library Month (Canada) Literacy group in Houston, Texas Author & literacy Literacy organization in BC, Canada Literacy Bridge Org. Fire Prevention Month Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog (upcoming) Positive Attitude Month Living with purpose ...

-- Conscious Discussions Radio -- Kyla Duffy was the featured guest this morning on the Conscious Discussions Talk Radio show. We learned about her dedication to dog adoption, her work to encourage people to consider adopting a pet - and if they are going to get a dog, to help them identify the best breed for their lifestyle. Kyla shared her knowledge of animal rescue organizations; the happy tails dog series – a fund raising project… & more. Check it out by clicking on the hyper-link here or look to the right side of this page for links to the Conscious Discussions Talk Radio show. Find Dave & Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, information about their radio shows & free resources & articles at www.brummet.ca

-- Chatter -- Well I am officially back in the office as of yesterday and spent the last 2 1/2 days dealing with all the communications received during the few days off that I was out of the office. Those of you who are on our mailing list have already received the newly designed newsletter, which was just sent out yesterday. The Brummet's Muse is now a bi-weekly newsletter and will be released around the 1st and 15th of each month. The newsletter will continue to share information on the upcoming featured guests and topics on our two online radio shows, where Dave and I are appearing next and inspiring quotes. I am currently learning all the new tools we have available for this newsletter format and as our knowledge of this program we are using improves, so will the newsletter. We have new sign up widget inviting people to subscribe to the Brummet's Muse on this blog (upper right), on the first page of our site: www.brummet.ca - and on our myspace site - www.myspace.com/c...

-- Recommended Resource -- http://www.solarbotanic.com - SolarBotanic’s work focuses on artificial trees that make use of renewable energy from the sun and wind, they are an efficient, clean and environmentally sound means of collecting solar radiation and wind energy. SolarBotanic Nanoleaves are able to pick up any light, from the visible spectrum to the invisible spectrum, Infrared light, while producing millions and millions of Pico watts day in day out. -- Polystyrene Recycling -- Of course the best way to reduce or consumption of polystyrene (commonly referred to as "styrofoam" and "packaging peanuts") is to avoid the use of it all together. There are many packaging alternatives that are light and affordable for shipping needs, we can choose to use reusable or compostable disposable cutlery, plates and drink cups, we can bring our own container from home when visiting restaurants - rather than asking for their "to-go" container you can use your own....

-- Prize Winners -- Last week's winners are: Lian Gouw's book: Only A Girl goes to Ms Kriz Ms Eastwood the grand prize winner of two books by Robin Marvel: a copy of: Awakening Consciousness - a boy's guide , Awakening Consciousness - a girl's guide -- New Prize Draw -- Announcing our new prize draw contest…we are accepting entries for the following prizes: Myra Lewin's Audio Book (audio): Freedom in Your Relationship with Food ...&... A signed copy of The Somebody Who (paperback) by Katie Gates Email me at: ldbrummet @ yahoo . com (remove spaces before sending) with the word "prize" in the subject line. Deadline will be on Oct 4 - noon (pacific). Find Dave & Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, information about their radio shows & free resources & articles at www.brummet.ca

Today is the first day of the three to four days that I am able to take off from work per month! Whew! I do look forward to my "days off"! lol Wish me luck - it is so hard for me to take days off, I love what I do and have soooo much of it to do! But this is a promise I made - to take 3-4 days off per month... so here I am. I've company for the last few days, it has been an incredible visit and I'm so pleased my Aunt & Uncle could make it out our way yet again. Today's post is really just to let everyone know that I'll be away for a few days - out of the office at least - so any communications between now & then will be dealt with on Monday. I encourage our blog readers to scroll through previous posts, and to also check out the archived broadcasts of our two radio shows - look to the right for links to our various sites, radio shows, etc. Don't forget to enter our prize draw this week! (see previous posts for information on this week's contest...