Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Quote of the Day -- “… Green product purchasing doesn’t mean we encourage over consumption – but there are products that you do need and we help to direct people to better choices… than just the mainstream products that we may be used to. …Often people would tell me ‘this is a green product’ but I would be wondering WHY that product was green. …We do a number of things to green our shipping we default to ground shipping because it is the most efficient per order. We use 100% reclaimed boxes and packaging materials (from neighbors, friends, companies) and use that for our shipping. We also purchase carbon offsets for the shipping involved in purchasing on BuyGreen.com . And actually – there have been studies that show how shopping online can actually reduce one’s carbon footprint. …Going green doesn’t have to be done all at once; it can be done one step at a time .” ~ Allison Huke Sept 15 – 2009 Today's quote was excerpted from a fascinating interview with Allison Huke in wh...

Congratulations to Glynis Smy who won a copy of the poetry e-book: Towards Understanding through a contest that was held on Carolyn Howard-Johnson's writing blog: http://www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com *Click on the hyper-link above to find out more information about my book of poetry in e-book, soft & hard cover formats. Glynis is a poet as well! You can find out more about her at: http://www.glynissmy.com http://apoetsword.blogspot.com -- Conscious Discussions Prize Winners -- Last week's prize draw winners are Lizanne & Judy! Congratulations! You have won a copy of Myra Lewin's Audio Book (MP3): Freedom in Your Relationship with Food ...&... a signed copy of The Somebody Who by Katie Gates. Your prizes will be sent out to you shortly. -- New Prize Draw Starts Today!!! -- Announcing our new prize draw contest... Starting on Oct 5, Ending on Oct 11th - we are accepting entries for the following prizes: Jude Treder-Wolff's book - Possible Futures: Crea...

-- Quote of the Day -- “ When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. ” ~ John Muir (famous naturalist & founder of the Sierra Club) -- Conscious Celebration -- Oct 5-9 happens to be Customer Service Week . This is a time when businesses can reflect on how they are communicating with current and potential clients. In honor of this conscious celebration, I have decided to post an article I wrote for a publication earlier this year: Common Courtesy & Strong Organization Skills Accelerate Publicity Efforts The best advice any writer could receive is: Do your research. Whatever stage you are at, whatever you are facing – research it. Find out the details from other authors and research the person or business you hope to work with. Find out what their guidelines and policies are, make a note of the person you will be dealing with. Provide them with exact and complete information. We always follow one big rule in marketing - Commo...

-- 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...