More Hip Than Hippie #173 - CD vs MP3

As a music lover, which should you choose? Sounds like a no-brainer, but Val and Dori download data you need to know so your favorite music doesn't stream into the landfill! Listen for tech news and tips for your old CDs, plus the Hipsters notice something's missing...

Beer and Chocolate:

Beer: We're traveling through another dimension, our next stop...Twilight Seasonal Ale from Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Oregon. A wondrous beer whose boundaries are that of imagination.

Chocolate: Listener Fiona in Galway sent us chocolate pints of Guinness from the Irish Chocolate Company. Slainte!

Hip News and Finds

Finds:

• Val's Favorite Things! Would you, could you carry a handmade tote made with pages from a Dr. Seuss book? Storybook Bags tell your favorite childhood story in a stylish one-of-a-kind bag, made in the USA by moms.
• See no weevil. Real rice and feed bags are handcrafted into bright, functional laundry bags and wastebaskets.
• Nal-genius. Put your old plastic water bottle to work. It makes a brilliant solar light.

 

Hip News

• Break off, eh? A huge ice sheet has broken loose in the Canadian Arctic. Sarah Palin wants to turn it into a hockey rink.
• Automathic. Number-crunchers have proven that a Toyota Prius holds its value better than non-hybrids.

Teenie Weenie Greenie™

The next time you buy any paper product, try to find a brand that's chlorine-free. Why? Because dioxin is released into the environment when chlorinated products are incinerated. Check out this list of home and office paper goods that make the grade.

CD vs MP3

As a music lover, which should you choose? Sounds like a no-brainer, but Val and Dori download data you need to know so your favorite music doesn't stream into the landfill!

• DISCouraging. Get the story on iPods and e-Waste.
• DISCoveries. Newer innovations include corn-based MildDiscs, and Blu-Ray, which is 51% paper.
• DISClaimers. Americans still buy about a billion CDs every year. When you're tired of listening to the Jukebox Hits of the 60's, send 'em to GreenDisk for recycling. Or turn Martha Stewart loose on them.
• DISContinued. Where, oh where have those annoying AOL discs gone?

Listener E-mails Sound off, don't let your ideas go to e-waste! Send an e-mail to hip@greenfeet.com. And don't forget to post articles, links, and compliments at our MHTH forum!

• Brigid in Chicago is running a Marathon to raise money for the Healthy Schools Campaign. If only she were a hockey mom.
• Howard in England introduces us to Roz Savage, who's trying to become the first woman to row across the Pacific. She's an environmentalist and adventurer. But not a hockey mom.
• Tom in London sends praise to Marks & Spencer in the UK for banning free plastic bags.
• Denise in Indiana is looking for a few good organic wines. We suggest our local favorite.

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