Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Sunday Gardening -- Yes, we're featuring another Sunday Gardening segment today on Conscious Discussions radio - today I'll be discussing common harvests this time of year and what to do with them. Save some energy and time this year with some of our simple tips. Learn more about succession crops, and join us too in the chat room to ask your questions. Send me an email this morning with your garden questions and I'll address them in today's show. (via "contact" button on our site: www.brummet.ca )  Airs live at 10 AM (Pacific) on the Conscious Discussions radio show - Click on the hyper-link here, or look to the sidebars on this blog for links to recently aired episodes. -- Positive Eco-News -- The coca-cola company is apparently experimenting with numerous plastic beverage container alternatives from designing a bottle that is thin but strong (reducing plastic) to looking at “ developing plant-derived bottles that are 100 % recyclable...

 -- Quote of the Day -- The quote I've chosen for today ( below ) originated from a Conscious Discussions Talk Radio show that aired back on May 27th, 2010 on How to Write and Speak like a Professional . You can find the archived show three different ways - the easiest is to simply click on the title above. Otherwise, visit the Conscious Discussions homepage and scroll through the archives listed there. Or you can visit our site ( www.brummet.ca ) to find a handy hyper-linked list of archived shows.     “ To me, the starting point is what you say (as opposed to stage presence) - unless you are going to be on stage strictly to be an entertainer, to make people laugh and smile than fine, the content isn’t important. But if you are trying to convince people about something …it doesn’t matter how good of an entertainer you are, you are not going to get your point across. …Stage presence, vocal variety, gestures, movements, and all that are there to emphas...

-- Conscious Living Events -- Aug 15-18: SWANA’s Wastecon 2010 Location: Boston Convention & Exhibition center Boston, MA – USA Info: wastecon.swana.org Aug 15 : National Acadian Day (Canada) " Indeed, it appears to me that a people who, during more than a century of hardship and persecutions, have managed to preserve their religion, their language, their customs and their autonomy, must have acquired enough importance to deserve that they take should the means to solemnly assert their existence; and that could not be done in a more efficacious way than by the celebration of a national day of their own ..." ~ Marcel-Francois Richard -- Positive Eco-News -- * source: www.JapanFS.org:  Back in 2001 it was determined that about 90% of Japans C02 emissions were generated from road transport, the Japanese transport sector had a lofty goal of cutting the Carbon Dioxide contributions from 267 to 243 million tons by 2010.  One might ...

-- Quote of the Day -- " Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher ." ~ William Wordsworth  -- Conscious Discussions Radio -- Today @ 10 AM Pacific (live) our guest of the day was a no-show, so we happened to have on hand a contingency show where I discussed numerous Positive News on the Conscious Discussions Radio show -  Join us live for our radio episodes, and drop into the live chat room, browse links and resources while you listen... Or drop by anytime to hear the archived episodes at your convenience. Find Dave and Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, information about their radio program, newsletter, blogs, and more at: www.brummet.ca * Support the Brummets by telling your friends, or purchasing a book - each book sold raises funds for charity as well!

-- Quote of the Day -- “ I got some pretty harsh lessons from the kids… one inner city kids told a story about his father killing his dog. I was shocked, but thought perhaps he was vying for attention – but it turns out he wasn’t and I realized that there was violence in the home and I was concerned for him. And I asked him how he felt about that. …So I said, ‘Kids – look… You are living in a tough world. Very difficult things happen, but they are out of your control because you are kids. Here’s what you can do – you can say to a parent: ‘I feel bad when you do such-and-such to my dog or cat’. And you can say it maybe twice because the parents are in charge. But that can change, you can decide to be kind to animals when you grow up. …Kids can write stories about what is happening, how they feel when they are with animals. …{Pawprints Literacy Org} programs develop listening, speaking, reading and writing skills – including drama – all of which are a part of li...

-- Conscious Discussions Talk Radio -- Today I'll be offering another Positive Eco-News segment -  presenting positive, proactive, inspiring, motivational environmental and conscious living news - resources - and more!!! Check it out by clicking on the hyper-linked show title. -- Recommended Resource -- Today's recommended resource for people dealing with aging parents and dementai:   http://www.AlzheimersSpeaks.com   http://www.SeniorLifestyleTrends.com Find Dave and Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, information about their radio program, newsletter, blogs, and more at: www.brummet.ca * Support the Brummets by telling your friends, or purchasing a book - each book sold raises funds for charity as well!

-- Literacy in Uruguay -- I heard on CBC radio recently of the efforts for literacy and education going on in Uruguay  – the government has arranged to give every school age person a laptop computer. Starting with Elementary classes, they are now ready to distribute to teenagers. The result has already caused a ripple effect in the country with previously illiterate parents starting to show interest in computers, adults who have the children look up recipes or sources for self-help tools. It is really an amazing move by the country that should be applauded across the planet. -- Recommended Resources -- -  http://fakeplasticfish.com - Our oceans are filling up with plastic: plastic that harms wildlife and never biodegrades; plastic that enters the food chain and leaches toxic chemicals. This blog is a record of one person's journey to live with as little unnecessary plastic as possible - www.SandpointMensGroup.com - to help each man achieve his goal of ...