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.