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Jubbling - Consume less. Reuse more.
Climate Central recently released Surging Seas so people can track the effects of storm surge + sea level rise in their area and hopefully it’ll strike a chord. We’ve been told for 25+ years that the polar ice caps are melting but today, you’ll still hear waterfront homeowners swear that they’re not seeing it. Unfortunately, when sea level does noticeably rise, it’ll probably be too late to reverse it. Might already be. [Climate Central]
Related article: Weighing the Risk of Sea-Level Rise
Don’t get your travel hopes up too high because Inhabitat isn’t looking to send you to Italy to report on the Milan Furniture Fair – they want somebody who is already attending this year’s show to write stories for them. It’s a pretty smart move because it means Inhabitat avoids purchasing at least one plane ticket and hotel room. This is kind of a piggyback Jubbling that will help the bottom line but if the writer they hire can convince everyone not to buy any of the crap coming out of the Milan Furniture Fair, we’ll have a true Jubbling trifecta! [Inhabitat]
Duquesne University Professor Dr. David Saiia has developed a product that will reduce the amount discarded plastic bottles in Ecuador while putting a long-lasting, breathable roof over the head of rural farmers in that country. The hand-cranked machine works like an apple corer and turns an empty 3-liter plastic bottle into a single, 1-meter strip of plastic that is then flattened and attached to a piece of bamboo. Once the bamboo is full of plastic strips, it can be used as a Jubblinged roofing tile. According to Dr. Saiia, the plastic bottle roofing material should last 10-times longer than normal organic thatching. It’s estimated that it would take 1600 normally litter-bound plastic bottles to complete an average sized roof.
Is there a possible conflict with the Hug It Forward guys who built the school out of empty plastic bottles? Probably not. I’m sure there’s enough discarded plastic water bottles to go around. [Gizmodo]
Faircompanies.com has been a great source for stories about people squeezing the most living area out of a limited space. Rémi Gaillard’s Foot Elevator video will not be on faircompanies.com. [Gizmodo}
No instructions required because the prefabricated home designed by Ideabox of Portland will come pre-assembled with its permanent furnishings from IKEA. The Aktiv manufactured home will be 745 sq. ft. and include the kitchen, flooring, counter tops and fixtures you’ve checked out when you visited IKEA but could never figure out how to incorporate into your current home. 
It’ll be priced around $86,500 and include energy saving appliances and other cost-saving features like dual-flush toilets.
It makes sense for IKEA to jump into the prefab home market. Buyers will surely be offered the full-meal deal (furniture, bedding etc.) so their final Aktiv home will end up looking like an IKEA showroom. I think that’s good. [SmartPlanet]
BANG! lamps: just another cool gadget or gat training for the energy-saving domestic commando? Created by bitplay INC. out of Taiwan, BANG! lamps are turned on/off and the lampshade tilts when it’s shot by the included pistol. It’s only available in Taiwan now but should be coming to the states soon.
Hopefully a future version will only kill the lights. That way, my kids will always remember to “bust a cap” into their lamp to turn it off when they leave a room. They’ll have to exert themselves a little more to turn the light on. [Gizmodo]
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