More Hip Than Hippie Pocast #55 -It's camping season!
With summer heat and long, lazy days the timing is perfect to head for the hills. This week we dish some tips and ideas for a trip that's all about leaving smaller footprints while having a great time. We've got some great beer, chocolate and you, our listeners. Tune in!

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Beer and Chocolate: Beer: Sac-Squatch Scotch Ale from the Sacramento Brewing Company. This stuff packs a wallop – 7% alcohol content so it's not for lightweights!

Chocolate: We decided to give mainstream chocolate a go - see if it lives up to its name. Ghirardelli Intense Dark Espresso Escape. Cacao content 60% (wha? Intense? Woosies -but, does it taste good?)

Finds & Hip News:

• Dave Matthews Band offsets 100% of the carbon dioxide emissions from their touring activities. They've teamed with Native Energy. Check out their website for more information - www.davematthewsband.com
• Styrofoam packaging banned in Oakland, CA. (USA) www.sfgate.com
• Harmony Art - For all you sewers out there -now you can purchase organic cotton fabrics printed with low impact dyes. Yippee!
• As seen at www.marthastewart.com - you can purchase these glass bug catchers from redenvelope.com.
• When Dori read this, Val nearly imploded.
• Not sure if this is really cool or just gross. www.chewbynumbers.com
• Happy Birthday Canada (eh?)
• An Inconvenient Truth Given Thumbs up by Scientists.

Green Camping
Tis the season and we've got loads of tips and ideas (some quite silly) that will help to decrease the size of your footprint in the great outdoors. Here are some links to find out more information.

 

 

• www.allstays.com
• www.moshannonfalls.com
• www.mastgeneralstore.com

Supplies for Camping

• Dr. Bronners Castile Soap
• Stainless Steel Utensil Set
• Bambu veneerware plates
• Uncle Harry's Powdered Peppermint Soap

Listener Emails

• Eileen invited us to check out the Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley, California.
• Gail is back from Kenya! Hurrah! She sent a photo of herself along with some children from Nairobi doing the Cha Cha slide. Looks like fun! Here are the products she took with her:
  • Happy trails Insect Repellent (she loved it and it worked great)
  • Bite Blocker (she didn't like the smell but Val swears by this stuff for its effectiveness)
  • Uncle Harry's Powdered Peppermint Soap
  • Dream Time Essential Oil Blend to help her sleep.
• Patrick send us a bit on a new Hollywood film called Blood Diamonds. Let's just say the Diamond industry is not too happy with it.
• Pat sent us this story from the BBC how No superstores 'means prosperity'. It's interesting.

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