Beer and Chocolate:

Beer: Full Sail LTD

Chocolate: Chocolove Organic Dark Chocolate 61% Cocoa Content

Finds:

• No bones about it. Ellen DeGeneres recently purchased Halo, a well known natural pet food company, and plans to produce her own brand of pet food. You can learn more about the company at HaloPets.com.
• A cut above. One product that will definitely be on all our wish lists this year is the Husqvarna Automower, the world's first solar/electric hybrid robot lawnmower.

• Off to a promising start. Infinia, a clean energy start up company, has raised $50 million in financing to further develop their clean energy technology. The utility-scale renewable energy technology combines a Stirling engine (which converts heat into electricity) with a large solar collector.
• You might be blown away. Denmark-based Vestas Wind Systems, the world's largest wind-turbine maker, officially opened its first U.S. manufacturing plant just outside of Windsor, Colorado.
• Coal cool down. Grist.org has a great article that brings together several threads into what they call a web of Really Bad News for coal.
• Energy Star cleans up washers. Energy Star will be beefing up the standards ofor washing machines.

This week's Teenie Weenie Greenie™ was sent in by Malie in Germany. She wanted to recommend Interflush, a flushing device for toilets that lets you use only the water you need. The toilet only flushes when the handle is held down, and stops when the handle is released. They say it can save up to 47% of the water normally used for flushing. Another option for decreasing amount of water you waste flushing is to put a container, or some other object that takes up space, in the tank of your toilet.

Dori and Val talk about tips for greening up your refrigerator. Check the links below more information on greening your current fridge and buying a new one.

• Perish the Thought - tips for greening you fridge from Grist.org
• Consumer guide to minimize energy consumption of your refrigerator
• Ease up on fossil fuels with green refrigerator
• Green Buying Guide: Refrigerators

Once again, we have a bunch of great listener emails. Keep 'em rolling in at hip@greenfeet.com. And don't forget to post articles, links, and speak your mind at our MHTH forum!

• Whiskey river? Brian sent an article about how researchers in Scotland are using a by-product of whiskey to clean contaminated ground and waste water.
• A good cause. Catherine wanted everyone to know about Goods4Girls, an organization that donates new cloth, reusable menstrual pads to girls and women in Africa.
• Why are we not surprised? Patrick sent an article from Forbes about how child labor is being used in India to produce genetically modified seeds.
• Oh baby! Jamie and her husband are expecting their first baby and wanted to share a great book she found with all the other expecting parents out there. It's called Raising Baby Green: The Earth Friendly Guide to pregnancy, childbirth, and baby care. And Congratulations to Jamie and her husband on expecting their first Teenie Weenie Greenie!

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