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First Aired - 08/22/2010 12:00PM
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This week on The Main Course Patrick and Mike sit down with energy guru Matthew Rubin, a hydro-electric pioneer responsible for 1 percent of Vermont's (sustainable!) energy. Jason Colucci of Pulino's and Matt Hamilton of Belcourt join Rachel Shukert (author of "Everything is Going to be Great") in lamenting the unfortunate quality of Dutch cuisine and the even less fortunate quality of "Eat, Pray, Love" (shudder). This episode was sponsored by Hearst Ranch: purveyors of grass-fed beef from the California coast.
Photo 1: Different types of renewable energy, Photo 2: Rachel Shukert
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The Main Course Introduction (8:19)
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The Main Course, Patrick Martins, Mike Edison, Hearst Ranch, Patrick was the fan of the game at Yankee stadium, Mike was a Yankees fan his whole life and has now divorced them, George Steinbrenner, steroids, Roger Clemens, Bud Selig, Mike hates the new Yankee Stadium, Matthew Rubin, he produces 1 percent of the energy in Vermont, Jason Colucci, Pulino's, Matt Hamilton, Belcourt,Clean Energy with Matthew Rubin (23:53)
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Matthew Rubin, clean energy, Vermont, New England uses 5% of the electricity in the United States, Vermont Yankee, hydro electric plants, cooking hot dogs with electricity, future of sustainable energy, cold water fishery upstream on a dam, hydroelectricity, a pump working backwards, the computer runs the site, Matthew sells his electricity wholesale to the grid, wind farm, all wind turbines look alike, how much of ConEd's electricity is sustainable?, T Boone Pickens, he gave up on his wind turbine mission, gulf coast oil spill, what makes electricity sustainable?, clean energy comes from water or wind, some other sources are nuclear reactors and natural gas, renewable are being built very slowly, hyrdo energy needs to come from an existing dam, John McPhee, the grid is a miracle of infrastructure, Niagara Falls, the significance of Vermont, Bhutan, Buddhism, no smoking allowed in the entire country,More on Energy Consulting (16:25)
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restaurants are energy sponges, there needs to be a cultural shift, you cannot do business in NYC without running a lot of energy, refrigeration, there are better ways to manage things in house, electricity is the second largest cost next to rent in NYC, energy consulting, there used to be a monoloy on energy distribution, now you can sell yoru energy through Con Ed, composting, Pulino's composts now, cheap and efficiant, food waste gets composted, Ronald Reagan, the source behind many of the problems we face now,Rachel Shukert, Author of "Everything is Going to Be Great", (17:19)
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Literary Deathmatch Champion!, Rachel Shukert, Mike Edison is a former champion, obscure diseases, Everything Is Going to Be Great, Rachel's second memoir, scorched Earth memoir about two years Rachel lived in Europe after college, seize the pickle firmly and never let it go!, a reference to her husbands nose, the great Jews of Omaha!, prostitution in Amsterdam, gastronomic prostitution, go out to dinner with somebody you have no intention of sleeping with, toxic Sex in the City effect, Eat Pray Love, the only way to not make your life crappy is to work very hard, hard working hippies,More with Rachel Shukert (29:53)
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the land of muncies, french fries, candy, stoner nirvana, Dutch traditions, poems attached to gifts telling your family how they have disappointed you, To a Beloved Mother Who Never Loved Me, For A Very Special Alcoholic, To a Favorite Fascist Cousin, putting the fun in dysfunction, Dutch people don't eat much Dutch food, Indonesian culture in the Netherlands, Amsterdam, coffee shop culture, nobody Dutch hangs out in the coffee shops, best cuisine abroad?, ingredients based food, white anchovies, Automats, German food, Dutch jokes, www.rachelshukert.com, Everything is Going to Be Great, Have You No Shame?, Pulino's now delivers!, the bad economy has brought great talent into the restaurant industry, Vespa deliveries, Keith McNally, Belcourt,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
