More Hip than Hippie - Eco-Friendly Travel
This week we talk about eco travel, our usual finds, beer and chocolate.

The Chocolate: Bare Bottom Truffles - Lavender Truffles

The Beer: St. Louis Premium Framboise

The Finds

• The Best: Accidental Discoveries from Wired magazine.
• Let's Play Dumb - from Wired Magazine March 2006.
• Personal Impact Calculator - from AOL
• Ad Council Launches New Global Warming Awareness Campaign TV, Radio Ads Urge Americans to Take Action -
  • Train
  • Tick

Eco-Travel

• Better World Club
• Green Map
• Eco Tour
• Green Earth Travel
• Rain Forest Inn
• Green Hotels
• Cruise Junkie

More Hip Mileage Challenge!
Take the Mileage Challenge - the point is to demonstrate just how much driving habits make a difference in fuel efficiency.
Step 1. Track mileage for one tank with normal driving habits.
Step 2. Track mileage for the next tank while maximizing the amount of time your foot is not on either pedal.
Send your results to hip@greenfeet.com. Please have your results to us by May 1, 2006.

 

Listener Emails

• Listener Barry (pronounced Berry) suggested Green Disk for recycling your tech trash.
• Gary reminded us to kill your screensaver to conserve energy as a PC with a screensaver going can use well over 100 watts of power, compared with only about 10 watts in sleep mode.
• Listener Patrick found this article on environmentally friendly glass for use in computer monitors. Cool.
• Karen (the lovely listener who helped hook us up with those smashing Bare Bottom Truffles) begs any listener going to (or living in) Canada to bring back chocolate from this company http://www.appletonchocolates.ca . She insists that everyone must read this page http://www.appletonchocolates.ca/internal/wasted.htm . If you can hook Karen up, give us a ringy-dingy and we'll put you in touch. Please note that we do charge a small fee of one truffle each for the effort.
• Patrick has a blog. Here he works through the math so people can see where the figures advertised on the packages of Compact Fluorescent lightbulbs come from. Check it out
  Plus, he wants ya'll to check out this site http://www.ourcoolhouse.com
• Last week we discussed Heinz vinegar as one of the only grain based vinegars (yes, petroleum is used in the distillation process). Here is the link to the FDA site
• Listener Lynda LOVES Health By Chocolate which is produced by EccoBella and is what is referred to as a beauty bar as there are added antioxidents. We love the excuse to eat this yummy chocolate.
• Shayna (aka Peppersmama) sent us this piece from digg.com discussing the pros and cons of hybrids, biodiesel, natural gas, ethanol and hydrogen cars.

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