Brummet's Conscious Blog

Just a brief note here to recommend this awesome list of BC seed suppliers, many of whom I've bought from over the years:  http://www.bcseeds.org/seed-producers-2/  

-- Recommended Resources --  Today's batch of resources are all in the genre of Literature - the importance of everyone to tell their story, the amazing advances in book production, and how Internet users can help digitalize millions of books and learn languages for free.  http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_matas Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad — with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with. The book is "Our Choice," Al Gore's sequel to "An Inconvenient Truth." http://www.ted.com/talks/luis_von_ahn_massive_scale_online_collaboration After re-purposing CAPTCHA so each human-typed response helps digitize books, Luis von Ahn wondered how else to use small contributions by many on the Internet for greater good. In this talk, he shares how his ambitious new project, Duolingo , will help millions learn a ...

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-- Finding Effective Charities --  Many of us feel a little bit sceptical about giving to charities - A lot of questions commonly fire off rapidly as we are considering whether to give. "Is it really helping?", we ask ourselves, "Is it the best use of my donated dollars? How much is actually going to the cause and not going to producing magazines or recruiting more donors? How does this affect me or my family or my community?" I truly believe many of us give in all kinds of ways - we participate in community fundraisers, charity drives through local businesses, calls for donations from our churches or announcements in our newspapers. We might drop our spare change in collection jars at the counter. The school our children go to might need help. We might leave our bottles and cans at the depot for the staff to donate the proceeds to a variety of programs, projects and charities they offer for their patrons to consider supporting. These are everyday activities...