Hello,

I am writing today in hopes that you would be interested in our books (Trash Talk and Towards Understanding), our free articles or recommending our website to your friends.

About the Authors

Between the two of us, we are authors, poets, photographers and book reviewers - our work has appeared in a variety of publications around the globe. My poetry book, Towards Understanding - a collection of 120 poems, was released in 2005. The first 5 years of our Column, Trash Talk, was developed into a book by the same name and released in 2004. We 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. We have also been awarded a certificate of Appreciation for our volunteer contributions to Seeds of Diversity.

About Our Website

Authors, Dave and Lillian Brummet, have generously put together an extensive website (http://www.sunshinecable.com/~drumit) that has a growing page of nearly 70 links to waste and resource organizations. This site provides something for nearly everyone including teachers, parents, caregivers, frugal individuals and environmental groups. Enjoy the free service called "Tip-of-the-Month" where visitors can learn and share reduction and reuse ideas. The Writing Page and the About Us page will lead to many more articles, press releases, interviews, interesting book reviews and other information that both readers and the media would find useful.

About Trash Talk

ISBN#1-4137-2518-X

People are constantly bombarded with negative information about the environment and our resources. Feeling powerless because we cannot afford to donate cash or time to a cause, we begin to feel overwhelmed by the immense environmental problems our world faces. In Trash Talk, we focus on changing people's mindset to a more open, hopeful and proactive one. Not by finger-pointing at corporations and governments, but by starting in our own homes, at our own desks.

Trash Talk began as a series of articles that focused on ways the average person can make small changes to do their part for the Earth. We compiled all the articles and other information that we could not fit in the limited space of our bi-weekly column into this book. Trash Talk embarks on frugal and conscious living techniques for the individual. We focus on the reuse of "waste" materials and reducing the consumption of resources. Trash talk is written to empower people to feel more positive about their worth as individuals in a hectic, expensive, environmentally stressed world. We show how to make a real and visible difference, while saving money at the same time.

Trash Talk could be an excellent resource in the classroom for recycling, environmental and gardening programs. Educators/caregivers can use the book to teach gardening skills (seed saving, composting, tree planting) and Vermiculture (worm composting) - the students can build their own worm bin and...