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* Updated 2024 * Green, sustainable living is at your fingertips - Get your copy of this 2-book green living series today! A perfect gift that helps save lot of money! This is the 2nd book in the Trash Talk - It's Easy To Be Green series, focusing on conserving energy, gardening concepts, water use and composting, and being proactive in every-day life. Split into three parts: Living Consciously Gardening Energy and Water ""A slightly bigger-picture look at environmentally responsible actions such as picking up trash while walking, reducing energy consumption and organic gardening."" Scrap Magazine (UK) Reduce home and office utility bills. Discover gardening and composting tips - even for apartment dwellers. Understand how landscaping can provide a food source and conserve energy costs. Learn about stand-by power and alternative energy sources. With this hands-on guide you can start right where you are and be confident that your efforts have a measurable, positive impact. What you do matters! * Book 1 is packed with ways to re-use and re-purpose waste! Learn how easy it is to see trash as a resource that can have a measurable positive impact for your community, your own budget and more. Just about every item commonly disposed of in your home or office can be found listed there. ""A refreshing book. The authors focus on changing people's mind-set to a more open, hopeful and proactive one, not by finger-pointing at corporations and governments - but by starting in people's own homes, at their own desks."" RNet Technology Newsletter; Natural Resources Canada ""Trash Talk is easy-to-read and offers readers a positive approach to managing their waste. This book contains lots of useful tips about how to reduce waste and practical ideas about how to take action as consumers and citizens for better use of our material resources. It is a valuable guide for anyone concerned about their impact on the environment."" Georgina Bloomfield; Friends of the Earth (UK)

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Between the two, Dave and Lillian Brummet are authors, poets, photographers, musicians, graphic designers and book reviewers. Their work has appeared in a variety of publications around the globe.The Brummets were honored with an award for ""outstanding use of various media in ongoing outreach work to reduce waste in our environment"" by the Recycling Council of British Columbia. Seeds of Diversity also awarded them with a Certificate of Appreciation for volunteer contributions. Boundary Family Read and Columbia Basin Alliance For Literacy recognized them for their support. Their efforts to promote conscious and green living has brought them carbon offset certificates from Brighter Planet Organization. Their continuous marketing successes have prompted forum friends to assign light hearted titles such as 'guru' for the advice they have freely given and 'pink bunny' because they keep on going and going. If you are curious about the name recognition the Brummets have built up over the years simply head over to your computer, call up your favorite search engine and type in Dave and Lillian Brummet, or just one of their names and see what comes up. Dave and Lillian believe in giving back as authors and have been donating a percentage of the royalties they receive from book sales to various charities such as Seeds of Diversity Organization, SPCA (South-western Canadian Branch) and to the Canadian Wildlife Federation.

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