The Tightwad Gazette Makes Being Thrifty Less Uncool
The Tightwad Gazette’s tagline states it best: Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle. What started out as a newsletter turned into a three-book series loaded with author and user generated ideas to save money by consuming less and reusing more; kind of like extreme Jubbling only organized and successful. The Tightwad Gazette is the... [Read More...]
Jubbling Is Back!
Jubbling Our Way Through Greenfest Seattle – June 5, 2010
Something that you should know about Jubbling is that we try to avoid events with “green” in the name. Unlike Jubbling, green is such an overused term and often repels as many people as it attracts. But we’re always in need of new ideas so we headed over to Seattle to see what was going on. Thankfully, Green Festival Seattle was... [Read More...]
Thanks To The Green Burial Council, Your Last Act Could Be A Jubbling One
How do you want to go? Most people have a good idea and it’s what drives the $11 billion deathcare industry. An industry that annually consumes: 8 Olympic sized swimming pools of embalming fluid. A Golden Gate Bridge worth of steel in caskets alone. Enough reinforced concrete to build a two lane highway from New York to Detroit. It’s... [Read More...]
The ReUsie Is ReAwesomie
As a kid, getting a sandwich in a Ziploc bag was a treat and as such, we were always expected to bring the bags home. My mom would even write “Bring Home” on the bags sometimes to make sure we did not throw them out. Today, disposable Ziplocs are everywhere, in every color and in multiple sizes and my kids wouldn’t hesitate to put... [Read More...]
Starbucks Was Correct. Now Bring In Your Own Damn Cup!
Starbucks took a “kick in the middle” last month when their shareholders voted down a resolution from As You Sow that would’ve forced Starbucks to develop a comprehensive plan for in-store recycling and a commitment to disclosing and increasing use of recycled content in their consumer products and plastic lined coffee cups. Starbuck’s... [Read More...]
Solar Paint? $1 Million To Market It? NextGen Solar, Please Be Right.
From ChicagoBusiness.com and Cleantechnica.com – It’s difficult to not be a little cynical when a company comes out and says it has a paintable solar solution that is supposed to be more efficient than the currently available solar panels. And the craziest aspect is that they’re only asking for $1 million to bring it to consumers.... [Read More...]
Eco-Sex And Why Jubbling Is Not Ready For It
“Jubbling? Sounds like something that happens when two women jump on a trampoline!” – Anonymous Fan At some point, every website out there figures out that sex sells and green/eco websites are no different. That’s probably why last week, there was a glut of stories about a new book from Stephanie Iris Weiss titled “Eco-Sex:... [Read More...]
The Story Of Bottle Water With Annie Leonard
“The Story Of Bottled Water” is the latest video from Annie Leonard and the team that created The Story About Stuff video in 2007. The Story Of Bottled Water follows the rise and acceptance of bottle water as a pseudo healthier alternative to tap water. And the video highlights bottled water’s success as a perfect example of manufactured... [Read More...]
Is Composting Worth The Stink?
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Loss Project, food waste is approximately 25.9 million tons per year. That translates to a lot of happy seagulls and rats. And if the seagulls and rats could, they would piece together a nice “Thank you” letter out of our garbage and encourage us to keep up the good waste and to... [Read More...]
Sanwa PrePeat 3100 II: Tonerless And Rewritable Printer
The Sanwa PrePeat 3100 II printer out of Japan is a tonerless, rewritable printer and will be priced at around $5600. The reusable PET plastic paper is expected to cost approx $3.35/sheet and can be reused 1000 times. Sanwa includes a graphic on their website with ideal applications of the PrePeat 3100 II. Finding ways to justify purchasing a Sanwa-Newtec... [Read More...]
The Pop Shoppe Was So 2010 Back In 1975
“You’ll find our plants all over the country…never our bottles” The Pop Shoppe slogan from 1975 Ok, who remembers The Pop Shoppe? I’m sure most 35+ year old’s in Canada remember and a lot of people growing up on the East Coast probably remember too. Not only was The Pop Shoppe’s slogan ahead of its time but their... [Read More...]
Nike Moves Away From Carbon Offsets To Sustainable Business Model
Beaverton, OR : January 22, 2010 – Nike released it’s Corporate Responsibility (CR) report and it almost looks like Jerry Maguire wrote it. The CR outlines their goals for the future and one of its highlights is Nike’s focus on Sustainable Business and Innovation (SB&I) . Basically, Nike wants to be a big zero; zero waste in... [Read More...]
Timberland Earthkeepers: These Boots Were Made For Marketing Green
If you were to watch a music video featuring Nancy Sinatra’s 1966 song “These Boots Were Made For Walking” you would likely see her wearing white, knee-high patent leather boots. That’s not very earth friendly by today’s standards considering the natural resources needed to raise cattle and then tan their hides. In contrast, today’s hip-hop... [Read More...]
Potted “Living” Christmas Trees
When it comes to buying a Christmas tree, the decision for most is to choose between artificial or a barely dead tree. If you go artificial, you can get perfection every year and spend the holidays convincing everyone how close your artificial tree looks to an actual one. If you go to the Christmas tree lot and get a recently-departed tree, you can... [Read More...]
Jubbling Squared: Bike Works Seattle
Once again my kids are calling me cheap for deciding to purchase my 6 year old a brand new, pre-owned bicycle and I happily made the trip to Recycled Cycles. With a name like “Recycled Cycles,” you’d assume that they would have their way with Jubbling but that is not how it worked out. After making our purchase, I found out from... [Read More...]
TOMS Shoes – There is a Jubbling Gosh!
So many copy and so few truly innovate. Blake Mycoskie is a true Jubbling pioneer and came up with the idea of TOMS Shoes while traveling in Argentina in 2006 and noticing how many kids ran around barefoot. The dilemma was that in rural parts of Argentina, you had to wear shoes to attend school so some kids were not only barefoot but they were uneducated... [Read More...]
You should get a stroke for using Dixon Golf balls.
Are your balls in the rough? Are you not Jubbling when you swing your stick? It is easy to notice that the game of golf is not exactly earth friendly, why with all those gas-powered golf carts and showering sprinkler heads. Well, let’s clarify a bit, shall we? One company, Dixon Golf, has now made losing golf balls in the rough, or even finding... [Read More...]
