More Hip Than Hippie #264 - Happy 5th Anniversary!

Dori and Val celebrate 5 years of podcasting "More Hip Than Hippie".

The Hipsters have hit another milestone! This week marks the end of their 5th year as co-hosts of your favorite eco-funny podcast. After more than 200 beers quaffed and chocolates nibbled, they find time to respond to a few listener requests. They also come up with a name for their imaginary lovechild.

Beer and Chocolate:

Beer: If life leaves you wondering "WTF?", open up a big-ass bottle of Wilco Tango Foxtrot Brown Ale from Lagunitas Brewing Co. You'll discover why they're one of our favorite breweries

Chocolate: Our 5th anniversary is golden! Green & Black's Maya Gold is sensationally smooth with just the right mix of spicy and sweet. A Hipster classic.

Hip News and Finds

Finds:

• High Five! Need a special treat for our 5th anniversary? Haagen-Dazs Five is a new line of scrumptious ice creams containing only 5 ingredients, all of them found in nature. Try the lemon.
• Party on wheels. Chico recently hosted a Bicycle Music Festival, a mobile concert that literally runs on pedal power.

Uplifting Hip News

• Sit. Stay. Sniff. Man's Best Friend is now saving endangered animals by locating their poop in the wild. Good boy!
• Montana gives a dam. In an effort to save the endangered Kootenai River white sturgeon, officials are releasing water from Libby Dam so that the ancient creatures can spawn. Believe us, they're not as cute as a dog

Teenie Weenie Greenie™

From Listener Melanie in Lansdale, PA: Take control of what you eat! If you have little ones in your life, give them homemade food whenever possible. For babies, the Fresh Baby So Easy baby food kit is a great start. Bigger kids love homemade ice pops. Try your hand at making yogurt!

Happy 5th Anniversary!

It was a dark and stormy night...well, not really. It was a warm spring evening in 2005 when we hatched the plot for our little podcast. Now, 264 shows later, it's time to look back at 5 beer-and-chocolate-soaked years of interviews, e-mails and really bad songs. Bottom line: we love you, man!

Top 5 Breweries:

1. Sierra Nevada Brewery in Chico, CA

2. (tie) Deschutes Brewery in Bend, OR and Lagunitas Brewing Co. in Petaluma, CA

3. Butte Creek Brewing Co. in Chico, CA (RIP!)

4. (tie) New Belgium Brewing Co. in Fort Collins, CO and North Coast Brewing Co. in Fort Bragg, CA

5. Samuel Smith Brewery in Tadcaster, England

Top 5 Chocolatiers:

1. Dagoba Organic Chocolate

2. Trader Joe's

3. (tie) Green & Black's and Seeds of Change

4. (tie) Endangered Species and Newman's Own

5. Zazubean

Listener E-mails

Tell No Impact Man you'd love to hear him chat with the Hipsters! Send him a nice email. Don't forget us...we love to hear your questions and compliments at hip@greenfeet.com. Check out our new blog! And remember to post articles, links and More Hip memories at our MHTH forum!

• Catherine in Utah has a great green gift idea for new moms: a gift certificate for a lactation consultant or a postpartum doula.
• Jimmie in Los Angeles is craving a good Chipotle burrito after seeing the chain's founder addressing the Senate on PAMTA.
• Christine in Florida shares a video with some fun facts about disposable coffee cups. Yes, she brings her own mug.
• Kara from Czechoslovakia wonders if decaf tea is full of chemicals. Depends on the method used to remove the caffeine. By the way, your English doesn't suck.
• George in Minnesota invites Hipsters to participate in the Odwalla Plant a Tree program. You betcha!
• Sarah in NYC did something gnarly to her hand, then asked doctors to put in biodegradable corn plastic anchors to hold the stitches. She's green to the bone!
• Patrick in NC points out that beer can make a good hair rinse. Like we need an excuse to take a bottle of beer into the shower.

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