More Hip than Hippie - Snap, Crackle, Pop - The Health and Environmental Impact of Fireworks
This week we explode!
No, not really - actually, we discuss fireworks and their impact on our personal health and the environment. Who knew? Dori and I chat about our "mission: bring your own take out box" and we read email. Tune in!

PS - it's a new month. Don't forget to vote for us at Podcast Alley!

Beer and Chocolate:
Beer: Anchor Steam Ale. Recommended by Kellie (ding ding) from San Francisco.

Chocolate: The Chocolate Traveler. It's a tin with wedges of Bittersweet Chocolate. Yum!

Finds & Hip News:

• If you are a carnivore, check out www.eatwild.com for news and sources of grass fed meat. If you're not, ignore this find and move on!
• Design-e2 is a cool website with a whole section devoted to green design. Subscribe to their video and audio podcasts - they cover topics such as 'green apple', 'the green machine' and others. You can view them at www.design-e2.com
• Ever written on paper made from Elephant Dung? Neither have we. But, it may be in your future. Val is looking into carrying it through Greenfeet.com, but in the meantime, see how it's made and the mission of the organization dedicated to saving their native elephants.
• Earth is having a temper tantrum - and the heat is rising!
• Any self respecting beer lover needs to read this.
• Val about had a cow when Dori shared this one. If anyone buys one, well, we don't want to know about it.

Shout-Outs:
We wanna give a big shout out to Tara for mentioning us on her blog and to Doug Pilgrim for doing the same. We appreciate it!

 

Fireworks - Snap, Crackle, Pop - The Health and Environmental Impact of Fireworks
Attention: This recall for "Thunderstick Rocket" Fireworks just released as they are a serious explosion hazard. Read the entire Press Release from the CPSC (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission).

This week we discussed how fireworks affect both our health and our environment. We were both surprised with what we found.

• If you want to learn how Pyrotechnics are made, visit the website of a PBS show called Kaboom. The show was made several years ago, but the information is great. You can learn about the periodic table of elements to the actual design of a commercial firework rocket. You can even learn how they demolish buildings through implosion.
• Read about Disney's advancement in air launch technology (yes, this is from 2004).
• The American Pyrotechnics Association

Listener Emails

• Our new listener forum is very active - Thank You! We hope you are all enjoying it as much as we are. If you haven't registered, do it now!
• Michael and several other listeners were quick to inform us of a possible impending chocolate shortage due to a trio of plant diseases. Here's a link to the podcast version of the NPR story.
• Another Michael shared a story about Peugeot developing a diesel racecar for the 2007 Le Mans classic. Fantastico! Hereâ??s the scoop: www.autoblog.com
• Guess what? According to ABC, a new study by Indian scientists say coffee could provide shield from radiation. Just don't let the cockroaches get a hold of that information.

See ya next week!

 

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1st Anniversay Quiz - Don't Miss Your Chance to Win!
Here's how it goes:

• Follow this link to a questionnaire containing 51 questions - one from each of our 51 shows.
• Each question will pertain to the topic covered in each show.
• Fill out the questionnaire and email it to hip@greenfeet.com by June 30th, 2006
• There will be three winners including the Grand Prize Winner
• What are we giving away? WE DON'T KNOW!!
  But, anyone who's listened so far that's gotten a prize package can tell you that we don't disappoint.
• All listeners from all over the world are eligible.
• Last date for submission is June 30th, 2006

More Hip Than Hippie - Chill and Grill
It's hot! Summer is upon us and this week we're discussing cheap, eco-friendly ways to stay cool and beat the summer heat. We also talk BBQ - Options, health hazards and some tasty, meat free recipes (yes, we are gearing up to take a listeners challenge to go vegetarian for a week). Of course, we cover listener email and don't forget to submit your answers to our questionnaire!

The Forum
Don't forget to visit our forum and add your two cents!

Beer and Chocolate:

The Beer: Three Philosophers Belgian Style Blend from Brewery Ommegang. It's an ale with cherry lambic added.

The Chocolate: Dagoba Organic Chocolate Conacado 73%

Finds & Hip News:

The Finds:

• Guide to Less Toxic Products - for all you Canadian listeners (eh) www.lesstoxicguide.ca Great resource!
• Co-op America Quarterly - a quarterly publication for members. Join today!
• Priority Magazine (if your office has any Pitney Bowes machinery, you'd probably qualify)
• Val's new favorite magazine is from the U.K. Organiclife
• Dandelion Communitea Cafe - casual urban teahouse located near downtown Orlando, Florida.
• The Flat Tire Condom Val mentioned during the Grilling portion of the show.
• Go see "An Inconvenient Truth" - Al Gore's new movie. See the trailer here.

Hip News:

• Brad and Angelina's Baby Shilo - her legal age countdown!
• Fast Food Chain Wendy's is switching to healthier cooking oil.

Shout-Outs:

• Squidoo.com - Go Green. Thanks for the nice review!
• Listener hannah8ball for listing us on her blog! Muchas Gracias!

Chill & Grill

Ideas to Beat the Heat During the Summer Heat.

 

Grill tips and ideas.
For Coconut Shell Briquettes check out:

• www.nakedwhiz.com
• www.purefirecharcoal.com

Great cookbooks to read and own:

The Vegetarian Grill 200 Recipes for Flame Kissed Meals by Andrea Chesman

Celebrate Lavender Festival Cookbook

Try these recipes and email us how you like them!

• Wild New Brunswick Strawberry Salad with Pepper Toasted Parmesan Crisps and Blueberry Dressing
• Roasted Vegetable Stacks

Val mentioned her friend, John Lingle's cookbook now out of print. However, here is a link to some of the recipes.

Check out John's website for a wide selection of herb plants shipped directly to your home.

• Orange Cleaner for the grill
• The Luminarium - warm up a bit on a cool evening

 

Listener Emails

• Christine from NY shared this hilarious video of a Minneapolis Pizza Delivery man who drives a gizmo electric car wearing tights and a cape. The ringer? He came to the rescue of a victim of crime.
• Doug sent a big Thank You to everyone who participated in the Lancaster Relay for Life. They met and exceeded their goal of $1 million for Breast Cancer research. Wahoo!
• Allison, a new listener, sent us an email to introduce us to her eco-handbag line, aGaiN. They're gorgeous! Check them out at www.againnyc.com
• Tom, a long time listener in Japan, sent us an article how Japan is trying to cut down on plastic bags. Yeah!
• Craig is struggling to find hemp jeans in South Africa. Turns out Hemp in Afrikaans means shirt so it turns up a bazillion (yes, with a b) results when Googled. Any one out there who can help?
• Caroline in NH (thanks for the 5 star review in iTunes!), sent us several links regarding organic farming, goats milk and the like. Here are a few for you all to check out: www.findarticles.com.
  To find a farm in your area check out one of our favorite sites www.localharvest.org and to find out more about the plight of the American farmer check out nonais.org
• Rachel is a new listener (welcome!) and put us up to a one week challenge of going Vegetarian. We're working toward it Rachel! She shared a band that she likes very much called A Perfect Circle. Here's their web site.
• Canadian listener Burridge.C (can you share your real first name?) sent us an interesting bit of info on a company called Enertia Builiding Systems that build homes that heat and cool themselves without fuel or electricity. The technology is fully explained at www.EnergyWithoutOil.org.

More Hip Than Hippie Pocast #52 - 1st Anniversary Show - It's a Party!

That's right ladies and gentlemen, it's the 1st Anniversary of the More Hip Than Hippie Podcast. We are thrilled to have been allowed in your iPods and MP3's over the last year and want to thank each and every one of you.

We'd also like to give a special thanks to Jill-icious and Rob for all their hard work to make the show happen and to all you listeners who have pitched in with advice and support.

Finds:

Release the Hounds - No, no - Release the Forum!
There we go. The More Hip Than Hippie Listener Forum is officially live for participation. Check out our website www.morehipthanhippie.com and you'll see a link in the upper left hand corner.

We have several forum areas available for your participation:

• Show comments and feedback - Tell us what you think and provide food for thought or show your incredible sense of humor.
• Beer/Chocolate Reviews - we'll provide ours, you provide yours
• Your Questions - what burning questions do you have? Keep it clean, people.
• News and Interesting Links -this is a great place to post articles to share
• Rob's Rebuttal - He felt he needed a place to refute our remarks. Whatever, dude. Problem is he's funny.

 

All we ask is that when you open the link to the topic, post a reply if you are keeping within that thread of topic. That way it makes it easy to follow a trail. For instance, open the topic posted by the lovely BJK on interpreting her water report and you'll see a string of responses below. Get it? You can post a new topic at any time and we encourage you to open existing topics and chime in. Your participation is what will make this forum rock.

You'll notice the more you post, the higher your ranking. And if you sign up before June 30th, you'll have the Charter Member ranking giving you no power other than a slightly bigger ego.

Feel free to continue to email us at hip@greenfeet.com  - we still love to hear from you.

Don't miss Dori and Val Live
Dori and Val will be live on the More Hip than Hippie forum Saturday June17th at 5:30pm Pacific time. Listen to the podcast for more details.

Shout Outs and Big Thank You's:

• Chance - Check out his site and his music.
• Dennis Laidler's Biodiversity & Environmental Sustainability Blog
• Rob's World 
• Tracy from the blog Healthy, Wealthy & Wise
• Kati from Warehouse Gourmet
• Hillary Gayle's blog "how to decrease your ecological footprint & live more environmentally friendly without turning into a total dork"
• Natasha from Top 10 Sources.

Topic: What Topic? - This week it's all about the Beer and Chocolate!

We welcome John Abbot, commercial brewer and beer connoisseur. This guy knows his stuff! We've selected 5 beers and 4 chocolates to see what goes with what -  including a beer in a can.

 

Here's what we tried:

Beer:

• Carnegie Stark Porter out of Sweden
• New Belgium Brewing Company - Fat Tire Ale, Fort Collins, CO
• New Castle Brewing Company - Brown Ale
• Young's - Double Chocolate Stout

Chocolate:

• Dagoba Chocolate - Xocolatl and Lavender Bars
• Chocolove - Extra Dark Chocolate
• Newman's Own Organics - Sweet Orange Dark Chocolate

Listen to find what went best with what.

 

Here are some great sources to find out more about how to taste beer and conduct your own private beer tasting. This is an area we will definitely be exploring in upcoming shows.

• www.beercook.com
• www.tastebeer.com.au
• beeradvocate.com
• www.bjcp.org
• The Beer Score Sheet that John Mentioned.

Listener Emails

• Susan shared this article from the NY Times regarding alternatives to Teflon.
• Greg from OK (aka Oklahoma) informed us of a company in Missouri called www.greasel.com They sell fuel tanks and modification hardware for diesel vehicles. Check them out!
• Diana from Lawrence, Kansas sent us a link to Harper's Magazine about calculating car insurance by the mile instead of a flat rate. We think this is an interesting approach. Love to hear your feedback.
• 
  Kati emailed us a photo of the tub and tile cleaner from the Clean House, Clean Planet book offered at Greenfeet.com.
• Bjk sent us this link for chocolate cheese Ã????Ã???Ã??Ã?¢?? that's right! We need some now!
• Christine who loves Entourage star Adrien Grenier even more now that he's come out as being enviro-savvy sent us an article about it to share with you all.
• Emmie from Japan emailed us and suggested a cookbook called "Harumi's Japanese Cooking" by Harumi Kurihara.
• Yippie Adam - a fellow podcaster (check out his show at www.yippieshow.com) sent us this highly disturbing article. Well, the article itself is not disturbing, but the fact that they suggest using waste chocolate to power your car is. Val nearly fainted when she read this.
• Kellie helped to update us on the state of the bag tax in bayside town of San Francisco (ding ding). Apparently, it's going nowhere. The big bad bag lobbyists (who knew there were such folks) cut a deal with the city to decrease plastic bag consumption by 10 million - which is only 10 bags per person - or 1 large shopping trip. Trouble is, there doesn't appear to be anything in place to help make that happen. So, continue to bring your trusty reusable bag, sign Big Ed's pledge, and help spread the word.
• Brian was introduced to our show by his lovely wife yet he hasn't listened. (dude, what are you waiting for?) But, his wife does share the info so he feels as though he's listened! He has a question as to what to use for trash under the sink. Check out BioBags from Greenfeet.com. They're compostable, made from GMO free corn and are fairly strong. Val uses them all the time and Dori's ticked she didn't share that she had them. Now we all know.

Send us Your emails at hip@greenfeet.com . We love to hear from you. We may even read your email on the podcast. Don't forget to vote for us at podcastalley.com and rate us at podcastpickle.com.

 

1st Anniversary Hip Hipster Contest
Here's how it goes:

• Follow this link to a questionnaire containing 51 questions - one from each of our 51 shows.
• Each question will pertain to the topic covered in each show.
• Fill out the questionnaire and email it to hip@greenfeet.com by June 30th, 2006
• There will be three winners including the Grand Prize Winner
• What are we giving away? WE DON'T KNOW!!
  But, anyone who's listened so far that's gotten a prize package can tell you that we don't disappoint.
• All listeners from all over the world are eligible.
• Last date for submission is June 30th, 2006

If you need to access our previous shows to help find the answers, just check out the calendar at the left side of our site. The podcast started in June 2005, so if you want to start at the beginning (its a very good place to start) you can check it out in those archived shownotes. You might have to scroll down a bit, but it's there.

 

More Hip Than Hippie Pocast #51 - Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Mulch. The Dirt on Green Burials.
We said it in the show, and we'll say it here. We're having fun with this topic. While it can be a grim subject for most, us girls decided to follow the light. Of course, we understand death to be a sensitive subject (we've both had our share of personal grief) but at the same time, it's a subject that our culture just doesn't discuss – and we think it's high time we did.

 

With that in mind, we've assembled some interesting tidbits on alternatives to traditional, highly non-green burials. We hope you'll become a little more enlightened and open up to the subject of going six feet under.

Finds and Hip news:
Finds

• Pink Magazine – it's not what you think

 

Hip News

• Ethanol dazzles Wall Street, White House - from Yahoo News.
• China's longest river "cancerous" with pollution - from Yahoo News.

 

Beer and Chocolate and Nuts!

The Beer: Hebrew The Chosen Beer - Messiah Bold.

The Chocolate:Vivani Organic Dark Chocolate.

The Nuts: Chocolate Covered Almonds from Maisie Jane’s.

Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Mulch - The Dirt on Green Burials

Green Cemeteries

• Ramsey Creek Preserve
• Glendale Memorial Nature Preserve

 

Here are some other links to learn more about Green Burials – you truly owe it yourself and your family to explore these options. They make sense on so many levels:

• Greener Ways to the Great Beyond - Mother Earth News
• Living Legacies
• Woodland, green and environmentally-friendly funerals
• Organising Green/Alternative/DIY Burials - IfIshouldDie.co.uk
• Green Graveyards -A Natural Way to Go - AARP
• Lifegem - because love lives on.
• Cremation Keepsake Pen
• For Biodegradable urns and other Keepsake items - In the light Urns.

 

Listener Emails
As usual, we got tons of it - unfortunately, we can't read all of it but we love every piece that comes our way – so don't stop! Here's what we discussed this week:

• Michael (along with the Podchef) shared his love affair with his reel mower. Val's going to get one. Maybe it will help her get her ass in shape (literally). Dori's opting for goats which is not a bad idea either. Here are a few websites to check out mowers:
  • www.cleanairgardening.com
  • www.reelmo werguide.com
• Jenn shared this rockin' "Green Dollhouse" created by professional architects. Check it out at www.brooklynkids.org
• Kellie (ding ding) from SF shared this tidbit from NPR regarding a Canadian (eh!) company making cellulose ethanol from straw and hay. Here’s the story – don’t forget to turn on (or up) your speakers.
• Gail emailed to let us know she's on her way to Kenya to entertain orphans who lost their parents to AIDS/HIV. Check out her website at www.tootsieclown.com and send her an email telling her what a commendable thing to do!
• Dave th' wave from Nova Scotia Candada (eh?) sent us a cool link about a new Canadian show called Code Green. Here’s the link www.codegreen.tv
• Amy is looking for a green job. If you can help her out, email us at hip@greenfeet.com and we'll hook you up. Otherwise Amy, here are some sources to help you find that green job of your dream.
  • www.greenjobs.com
  • www.greenbusiness.net (tell Jason Greenfeet/More Hip sent ya)
  • www.sustainablebusiness.com
• Steve is looking for a good, tasty nationally distributed Chocolate beer. Here's what we found Youngs Double Chocolate Stout. We’ve tried this before and gave it our full two hips each. You should be able to find it at Beverages N More or even Trader Joe's if you have one. If not, look for a well stocked liquor store and they could probably bring it in from their local distributor. Doesn't hurt to ask!
• Bob in Tulsa mentioned a soy based lubricant as a substitute for WD40 which is petroleum based. Check out BioKleen's Soy lube available at www.greenfeet.com.

 

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