I’ve found a great piece of RV gear that helped me get many sound nights of sleep since its installation. The Smart Light 1000 is a motion detector, a battery monitoring system, a way to employ LED’s to dramatically reduce your lighting power draw and one of the newest additions to the Green RV.
Here is the video with all the details.
For more information, please visit StarLightsInc.com
Subscribe to Buried Logic on iTunes
Guest Intro/Interview
Mary Burrows
Our guest today is Mary Burrows. Mary is the Manager of Chemical Development at Thetford Corporation, the world’s leading maker of portable and permanent RV toilets, and the holding tank deodorants and related additive products used in and on RVs. Mary received her Bachelor’s degree from Albion College in 1980, with majors in Chemistry and English. She has worked at Thetford for over twenty years, and spends much of her time researching and developing RV deodorant and cleaning products. She is a recognized expert in the area of treating holding tank waste and the deodorants used in RVs, and is called upon repeatedly for her knowledge and experience in this field.
EPA: Design for the Environment
Design for the Environment
In a study conducted by Opinion Research Corporation, and summarized in Packaging Digest in Feb 2009:
“Four out of five people say they are still buying green products and services today – which sometimes cost more – even in the midst of a U.S. recession.”
“Half of the 1,000 people surveyed say they are buying just as many green products now as before the economic downturn, while 19% say they are buying more green products.
Fourteen percent say they are buying fewer environmentally green products.”
“About one in three say they don’t know how to tell if green claims are true. One in 10 consumers blindly trust green product claims.”
“Consumers are verifying green claims by reading the packaging (24%) and turning to research (going online, reading studies, 17%).”
In an article from Brandweek in Feb 2009, quoting from a study by Mintel:
“A $17.7 million business in 2003, the Chicago-based market research company says the green cleaning category quadrupled sales to $64.5 million by 2008. by 2013, Mintel anticipates eco-friendly cleaners will do an astounding $623 million in business and account for 30 percent of the household cleaners market by then (compared with 3 percent last year)”.
“Green Works brought green cleaning products into mainstream supermarkets, which have seen green sales increase more than 170% from 2007-08 and market share rise 16 percentage points.”
As you can see green is growing rapidly. Many manufacturers want to claim their products are green. The only way to know for certain if a product is green is to look for products that are certified or recognized green by a third party.
Green Washing
7 Sins of Green Washing
Mary Burrows Final Thoughts
Buried Logic Closing by Host Brian Brawdy
To learn more about Mary Burrows and the Thetford Corporation, please visit www.Thetford.com
Contact us at Buried Logic:
Brian Brawdy: BuriedLogic.com
Michael Mauro: MauroMedia.com
Gear to Get with Brian Brawdy
One of the necessities of Green RVing, boondocking & dry camping is the ability to generate power. By tapping into the free and ubiquitous energies of the sun, I’m able to go off road, off the grid while staying out longer.
In this video, I look at the cutting edge technology of the PowerSource 1800. A uniquely designed solar powered generator.
Learn more at RVBackup.com
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Subscribe to Buried Logic on iTunes
Buried Logic Podcast
When Bob Difley worked for a living, he was Northern California Regional General Manager of El Monte RV Centers, a national RV rental and sales company.
Bob now photographs and writes articles on the RV lifestyle, Green RVing, nature, and the outdoors. Bob’s RV articles appear regularly in Trailer Life, MotorHome, Good Sam’s Highways magazines. Bob also wrote the Backroads & Boondocking and The Green RVer columns in Western RV News & Recreation.
He also teaches RV lifestyle classes and seminars at The Rally, was an instructor in the Life On Wheels RV Conferences, and presented interpretive programs for Arizona State Parks. He is a featured blogger on RV.net and writes the boondocking blog at rvboondockingnews.com and the birding blog at birdwatching.rvtravel.com.
Bob and his wife, Lynn, have been fulltimers for seventeen years and enjoy an active RV Lifestyle of kayaking, hiking, swimming, mountain biking, and bird and wildlife watching.
BOONDOCKING: Finding the Perfect Campsite on America’s Public Lands is Bob’s new 65-page eBook crammed with bookdocking information, loaded with links to additional sources, and photos of great boondocking locations. Learn more about Bob Difley’s new eBook.
To learn more about Bob, visit his website www.healthrvlifestyle.com.
Contact Us at Buried Logic
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Subscribe to Buried Logic on iTunes
In the 2nd Buried Logic Podcast produced by Mauro Media, I had the great opportunity to interview a truly inspiring adventurer.
Modern-day explorer, Eric Larsen’s life epitomizes adventure. A polar explorer, dog musher, adventure racer and educator, he has spent the past 12 years of his life adventuring in some of the most remote and wild places left on earth. Totaled, Eric has traveled enough wilderness miles to circle the globe over two times.
Eric Larsen Explorer
On January 3rd 2009, Eric successfully led an international team to the South Pole – covering nearly 600 miles in 41 days. Eric is now the 3rd American in history to have skied to both the North and South Poles.
In 2006, Eric and Lonnie Dupre completed the first ever summer expedition to the North Pole. During this journey, the duo pulled and paddled specially modified canoes over 600 miles of shifting sea ice and open ocean. Eric’s other expeditions include a 700-mile dog sled journey through northern Ontario, a six week dog sled journey in the barren lands of the Canadian Arctic, several training trips to Hudson Bay and countless dog sled races. He has also summited Mt. McKinley, ridden his bike across the United States, been a back country ranger in Alaska, a white water canoe guide in Colorado and wilderness trip leader in Hawaii.
In 2008, Eric was elected as one of Outside Magazine’s Eco All Stars. He was also inducted as a member of the prestigious Explorer’s Club based in New York City. A gifted communicator, Eric travels extensively giving motivational and educational lectures to schools, universities, non profit organizations and corporate groups.
Currently, Eric is planning and preparing for the Save the Poles expedition. Slated to begin in November 2009, Eric and his team members will travel to the North Pole, South Pole and the summit of Everest all in one year. The ‘Save the Poles’ expedition will journey to these last frozen places in attempt to tell their amazing story while promoting clean energy solutions to the problem of Climate Change.
Eric lives in Grand Marais, Minnesota where he is busy training and planning.
In 2009, renowned Arctic Explorer Eric Larsen will begin an unprecedented journey to the top, bottom and roof of the world. During a continuous 365-day period, Larsen will mount major unsupported expeditions to the North and South Poles and an expedition to the summit of Mt. Everest. This feat has never been completed in one year. To date, only 15 people (no Americans) in history have been to all three ‘poles.’ The expedition’s objectives are:
Join me to learn more about Eric Larsen and his upcoming adventures in the Buried Logic Podcast
Contact Us at Buried Logic
It has been my goal to travel North America discovering wild places, down the open road and off the beaten path, all the while reporting on breaking news, commentary and techniques for surviving and thriving in the 21st Century. An importing part of that adventure is my Mobile Base Camp, a Lance Truck Camper powered by the natural energies of the sun, wind and rain.
An additional component in reporting my explorations and interviews falls into the category of both the BuriedLogic Audio blog posts and the BuriedLogic Podcasts. Thanks to the technology from the satellite experts MotoSat Advanced Mobile Satellite Systems I am now able to do so from anywhere I go. The new F2 DataStorm from MotoSat was installed on The Mobile Base Camp yesterday at their facilities in Salt Lake City.
Sign up for BuriedLogic Podcast
Keith McCord from KSL TV 5 here in Salt Lake stopped by to cover the installation and learn from Royal Lamb about the company, its people and the professionals that make it all happen.
by Brian Brawdy
I spent the morning with KDVR morning reporter Dan Daru highlighting tips for winter-proofing both your car, yourself and your family.
Dan & I discussed lifesaving technologies and gear from HEMA Road Atlas, SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger, SOG Knives, and emergency roadside flares. We even had a chance to talk about one of my favorite new pieces of gear, the PowerSource 1800 from MySolarBackup.com.
The overall message from the four segments this morning was one of mental preparedness in advance of emergency situations.
View one of our segments –
For more information on Winter Survival Tips, please visit BrianBrawdy.com
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Subscribe to Buried Logic on iTunes
Guest Intro/Interview
Our guest today is David Houle; a futurist, strategist and speaker. He has always been slightly ahead the curve. Houle spent more than 20 years in media and entertainment. He has worked at NBC, CBS and was part of the senior executive team that created and launched MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1 and CNN Headline News. He helped to create television series on A&E for his client Bill Kurtis, “Investigative Reports’ and “American Justice,” introducing single subject documentaries and legal programming to prime time before those programming concepts became common place. Both series were award winning and ran for more than ten years.
Houle has won a number of awards. He won two Emmy’s as Co-Executive Producer for a nationally syndicated kids program, “Energy Express”. He won the prestigious George Foster Peabody award and the Heartland award for “Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream” and was nominated for an Academy Award.
Houle is consistently ranked as one of the top futurists and futurist keynote speakers on the major search engines. He has keynoted numerous conferences both across the country and internationally. He is regularly invited to speak at corporate management retreats. He recently won a speaker of the year award from Vistage International, the leading organization of CEOs in the world and is often called “the CEOs’ Futurist,” having spoken to or advised 800+ CEO’s and business owners in the past two years.
He writes the highly regarded futurist blog, www.evolutionshift.com, with the tag line “A Future Look At Today.” For those of you on Twitter his user name is @evolutionshift which is also the name of his YouTube channel. He publishes a free monthly newsletter and the highly acclaimed semi-annual Shift Age Trend Report. Both are available at www.davidhoule.com . He has been speaking about the future for a number of years and his first book “The Shift Age” was published in 2008.
If you are interested in ordering The Shift Age Trend Report…David was kind enough to give us a $50.00 discount…to take advantage go to www.davidhoule.com and use the promotional code FCBRAWDYV
www.youtube.com/evolutionshift
Contact Us:
Brian Brawdy: BrianBrawdy.com
Michael Mauro: www.mauromedia.com
During Brian’s last trip to Houston, he caught up with youth campers attending the Houston Arboretum’s summer camps. Thanks to KIAH, meet some of tomorrow’s explorers…
Fox News and Megyn Kelly Fumble in Voter Intimidation Report
Fox News and Megyn Kelly, not to mention Trace Gallagher, owe their viewers an apology. OK…let’s wait together. Hmm, Hmm, Hmm, Hmm, Hmm. Megyn? Hello? Apology please. Still waiting….Can someone get Roger Ailes on the phone?
While reporting on the the Philadelphia voter intimidation case, Megyn, Trace and a hand full of undisclosed producers at Fox News teased a video of the New Black Panthers Samir Shabaz just before a commercial. You know SS. The guy with the club standing outside the voting booths in Philly that sparked the current DOJ case. When the show returned and Megyn tossed it to Trace Gallagher, he claims the video “too incendiary” to air. What? “We report. You decide.” Huh? What?
FOX NEWS: We redact. You decide.
Megyn, Megyn, Megyn. Show us. Don’t shield us.
Now, true, the video is an angry, verbally-violent and racist rant by Mr. Shabaz. As a “cracker” not an easy clip to sit through. That this type of racial anger still exists is truly sad and unfortunate. The only thing more disappointing is the decision by Fox News to “protect us” from news that they perceive to be “too incendiary.”
FOX bleeped out the vulgarity during the first airing; OK. If FOX wants to air a warning, a disclaimer prior to the video, OK as well. But to tease the video and then chicken out during the commercial break is not what we need.
Today, some news is “incendiary.” Here’s the thing, though. That news is combustible makes it worthy of broadcast. News, albeit too hot to handle, should not be too hot to report. In the end it’s the only news we can use; why shield us from the news we need to see? Reporting the truth, as despicable and explosive as it can be, is the only news that stands a chance of making a difference in our world.
“Brian, Brian, Brian why let truth taint the process?”
Continue the discussion with Brian on Facebook
Continue the discussion with Brian on Twitter