Rachel Freire’s Cow Nipple Dress: Disturbing Fashion Statement Or Jubbling?

Cow Nipple Dress by Rachel FreireBrit Rachel Freire’s recent submission to the London Fashion show, the Cow Nipple Dress, is getting the kind of attention you’d expect any cow nipple dress would. According to Ecouterre:

the cow nipple dress has raised the ire of the British public, politicians, and animal-rights groups alike, who have branded it “inappropriate and disturbing,” “absolutely grotesque,” “sickening and repulsive,” and a “runaway freak show,”

The reaction she’s getting almost sounds like Schoolhouse Rocks’ Interjections.

To us, nothing about keeping up with fashion is Jubbling and that’s because fashion shows always have to include words like green and eco-friendly to excuse their events. Rachel Freire obtained her nips from a local tannery that would normally throw them out so in this case, she’s using a normally wasted byproduct in her cow nipple dress. Yes, it’s pretty provocative and we think somebody should give Ms. Freire a hug. But is it Jubbling? The Jubbling tipping point might be if the owner of the dress eventually eats it.

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Solar-Heated Clothes Dryer: Eco-Suavé or Jubbling?

Solvis-Miele Solar-Heated Clothes DryerCleanTechnica.com recently posted an article about the first solar-heated clothes dryer from Miele. Here’s how it works:

First, water runs through pipes in solar panels and is heated by the sun. The hot water then flows through a perpendicular pipe with dispenser valves to the solar cylinder. The hot water stays at the top, warm water in the middle, and cool water is at the bottom. Heat for the dryer is supplied directly from the hot water in the top later, and as the water cools it sinks to the bottom. CleanTechnica.com

Gizmag goes a little further and explains how Miele’s solar-heated dryer works and how it was developed through a partnership with solar-tech company Solvis.

Eco-Suavé or Jubbling? It’s pretty obvious that the solar-heated dryer falls into the Eco-Suavé category. Look at all of the hardware necessary to create this “eco-friendly” device and then contrast it with a clothesline stretched between two trees or posts. Once again, the green solution seems to consume more resources than it’ll save. I’m staying old-school with the phone-cable clothesline and waiting for sunny days plus, I can’t afford a system like this. Who beyond the Eco-Suavé can? Jubbling – Making consuming less, less consuming

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GreenFest Is Coming To A City Relatively Close To You

GreenFest Green FestivalThe Green Festival, or GreenFest, is a two day event that showcases products, ideas and solutions for consuming less and reusing more. And this year, they’re celebrating their 10th anniversary having welcomed 1 million attendees. Yes, green is prominent in their name but you don’t feel Jubwinked by attending because it’s all about the vendors. If you do decide to go, definitely bring your kids too. GreenFest is very kid friendly and includes a KidZone with crafts, games and featured speakers who’ll explain ways that kids can get involved. Here is their upcoming schedule:


2011 Green Festival Schedule
San Francisco/SF Concourse April 9-10
Chicago/McCormick Place May 14-15
Seattle/Qwest Exhibition Center May 20-21
New York/Javits Building Oct 1-2
Los Angeles/LA Convention Center Oct 29-30
San Francisco/SF Concourse Nov 12-13

Now Jubbling Festival, or JubFest, is still about 3 – 20 years off but I’m working on it. For now, it occurs in my house daily and consists of me walking around in a parka telling my kids to turn stuff off.

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Jubbling Holiday Shopping Guide: Avoid The Gift Card Middleman And Just Give Cash

It’s estimated that 10% of all gift cards are never redeemed – an $8 billion windfall for retailers in 2006. Forgo the unnecessary and quickly disposed plastic this holiday by avoiding the gift card and the 45 seconds of thought that went into buying it and just give cash. Cash is accepted everywhere, never expires and when you use it, you’ll get your change back. Now the possible Starbucks commuter mug that doubles as a gift card would be the only exception.

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Jubbling Holiday Shopping Guide: Avoid Toys That Just Do The Endless Loop

It’s not K’nex fault for creating a looping roller coaster that my son really wanted – it’s kind of my fault for saying “go ahead, use your birthday money to buy it.” We spent one hour building it, 30 minutes watching it loop and within 24 hours, lost a key part so it wouldn’t work. Now it’s an inoperable reminder of what we shouldn’t purchase in the future. I’ve discovered that looping and boring are interchangeable when it comes to kids toys.

New or used Legos/Duplos are different. They make a great holiday gift because they are practically indestructible and every creation can be different. Your kids can construct a castle one day and then build a soon-to-be destroyed voodoo version of their sibling the next.

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WalkScore.com: Helps You Find The Most Livable Walkable Place To Live

By aggregating information gathered by Zillow, Yelp, Flickr and others, WalkScore.com wants to help you find the next place to live based on how walkable it is. How close is the nearest grocery store, coffee shop and school? How accessible is mass transit? All of these factors become part of an overall score as to how walkable the area around your future home is. You’ll soon discover that cities are going to score higher than suburban neighborhoods for obvious reasons but WalkScore.com is most effective when it comes to helping you decide between in-city locations or between neighborhoods if walkability is important to you.

I did a search on my neighborhood and WalkScore.com pegged my local grocery store as “Quilt Or Dye Quilting Shop”; the system is not perfect. But WalkScore.com is definitely worth a look and could be a single source for answers to multiple factors affecting your next move.

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