Want to get the sticker and wax off that apple or cucumber at the same time? You may be able to in the near future thanks to Scott Amron’s Vanishing Fruitwash Labels. The Vanishing Fruitwash Label not only dissolves in water with some rubbing but it also contains Fruit Soap to aid in the removal of wax, pesticide and fungicide residues. The Vanishing Fruitwash Labels will still display price and product information for faster checkout. Compared to current produce labels, the Vanishing Fruitwash Labels are less likely end up on my shirt or on the back of my kid’s shirts. [BoingBoing]
Amron’s Vanishing Fruitwash Labels By Scott Amron
October 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Halloween Candy: Whatever You Do, Don’t Hand Out Agave Nectar Sticks Or Advice!
October 14, 2011 By 1 Comment
About this time every year, the green websites offer ideas on how to Hallowgreen it up. The costume swaps are great but whatever you do, please don’t screw around too much with the idea of handing out Halloween candy. The web is abuzz with food and non-food alternatives to old school candy and here are some selected suggestions from Greenhalloween.org:
- Acorns (from a tree)
- Individually wrapped organic herbal tea bags
- Jokes
- Toothpaste
- Soap
- Seashells
Hand out any of these items and you can bet they’re going to either find the trash or be thrown back at your house in a barrage of eggs that are not organic or cage-free. It makes me wonder, what’s worse: handing out eco-unfriendly Hershey’s chocolate bars that will be consumed or tea bags that will likely find the garbage bin?
That’s why we decided to do a little research and find some cost effective Halloween candy that could appease our kid’s need for treats, come in bulk, and still be a little Jubbling. We ordered our sample from the Natural Candy Store and then hired a panel of experts in the field of Halloween candy for their opinion. Our results:
endangered species chocolate Price: $6.95 for 21 pieces |
Endangered Species Chocolate: “100% ethically traded. We buy our cocoa from small family-owned properties, helping sustain the habitats and communities in which they exist. 10% of profits to animal habitat and humanity causes.” Ingredients: Chocolate, milk, beet sugar, cocoa butter, lactose, soy lecithin and vanilla. Candy Experts: Expert 1: Awesome. Expert 2: Better than real chocolate (expert a little confused). Expert 3: Can I have another one? |
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Mini Glee Gum Mix Price: $5.99 for 20 Mini Packs |
Glee Gum: “Natural chewing gum made with sustainably harvested rainforest chicle.” Ingredients: Cane sugar, glucose, gum base, rice syrup, orange oil, black carrot or black current for color etc. Candy Experts: Expert 1: Hard to start but fine. Expert 2: Flavor lasts as long as real gum (same expert as above). Expert 3: I don’t want to try it. |
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YummyEarth Lollipops Mix Price: $3.99 for 33 lollipops |
YummyEarth: “We proudly handcraft 21 delicious flavors with real fruit extracts – no corn syrup or artificial ingredients.” Ingredients: Organic evap. cane juice, rice syrup, citric acid, natural flavors etc. Candy Experts: Expert 1: More flavor than normal lollipop. Expert 2: Best of all the candies. Expert 3: Yum. |
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Surf Sweets Organic Gummy Bears Price: $7.49 for 10 mini-packs |
Surf Sweets: “Organically-sweetened gummy candies are drenched in fresh fruit flavor and free of artificial colors and sweeteners.” Ingredients: Organic tapioca syrup, organic evap. cane juice, gelatin, grape juice etc. Candy Experts: Expert 1: Harder than gummy bears I’m used to but good. Expert 2: Best of all the candies (two bests?). Expert 3: No thank you. |
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Ultimately, Jubbling really doesn’t care if you hand out Hershey’s or endangered species chocolate – you’re going to do what works best for you. But please don’t hand out seashells, tea bags or jokes. Halloween is a great day to meet your neighbors; not a day to be a dong and hand out acorns.
Dear Old Refrigerator, Please Keep Working Until At Least 2014. XO XO Jubbling
September 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Why 2014? Because that’s when the new Department of Energy standards governing refrigerators kick in making them 25% more energy efficient than current Energy Star compliant models. Companies are already working toward this goal – LG is traveling around the country with their new LG LFX31925 which is close to but doesn’t meet the new standard. And General Electric started working toward this new standard in 2010 by investing $432 million to improve the design and manufacturing of refrigeration products.
When 2014 does hit and it’s time to make the move, you can donate your old fridge locally or if it’s on life support, have it recycled through the EPA’s Responsible Appliance Disposal (RAD) Program. The EPA has partnered with utilities, retailers and manufacturers around the country to safely recycle refrigerators and recover their ozone-damaging refrigerant.
So for now, hug it out with your fridge daily, whisper it sweet nothings, spare it the stress of hot pots of soup and definitely don’t let it know about your plans for replacement in 2014.
Loaf Of Bread Picnic Basket
September 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Instructables.com is the website a retired and gentler Macgyver would help manage. We posted an article about them last year and even drew the Macgyver analogy because it fits. Our latest entry from Instructables.com is the loaf of bread loaded with sandwiches picnic basket. Basically, you buy an uncut loaf of bread, take off the top, dig out the middle to make sandwiches and then put them back in to create a bread-contained picnic basket. The post even encourages readers to consume the remainder of the bread (the basket) with brought soup but in our case, we’d probably just use it as an edible napkin.
Not sure if I’m going to try this but it sure beats the 10 one-time use Ziploc bags.
Check out Instructables.com, especially their Halloween section, for other Jubblinged ideas that you may be able to implement in your life using products you already own and don’t use.
Banning Possesion And Sale Of Shark-Fins Is Great. Finding Alternatives To Shark-Fin Soup Is Even Greater.
September 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Shark finning is freaking nuts and how shark-fin soup ever ended up a status driven, sexual prowess boosting delicacy is beyond me. Maybe it started when some guy swam out in the open ocean with a knife in his mouth, caught and wrastled a shark with his bare hands and came back with its dorsal fin as a trophy. Then, in an even bolder move, the guy threw the shark fin into a pot of soup, ate it, and got a promotion and the digits from several ladies in his village. Sounds crazy but compared to the current method of shark-finning and shark-fin soup consuming, this is nothing.
Today, it’s a billion dollar industry as sharks are caught and processed on a massive scale and only for their fins. After their fins are removed, the still-living shark is dumped overboard to die a slow, immobile death. It’s like getting thrown into a bar fight with no arms or legs and that’s why California is the most recent state to ban its sale. All this is good enough for me but there still needs to be another change – how do you get a growing market of shark-fin soup consumers to kick the habit?
After reading hundreds of articles about shark-finning, Jubbling figured it might make sense to help reduce demand for shark-fins in addition to reducing supply. So we put our best minds on this one and here are our alternatives for getting the benefits of shark-fin soup without actually consuming shark-fin soup.
| Shark-Fin Soup Benefit | Non-Shark-Fin Soup Alternative |
| Enhance skin quality | Bar of soap and moisturizer. Just about any brand of either will suffice and mix in a shower while you’re at it. |
| Boost Sexual Potency | Same as above with the addition of a good tooth brushing. Ordering the book, “She Comes First: The Thinking Man’s Guide to Pleasuring a Woman,” wouldn’t hurt either. Think about it – a bowl of viagra soup isn’t going to boost your potency. It’s just going to boost the zipper area of your pants and if shark-fin soup does that, what good is it when you’ve got a souped stained shirt and shark-fin breath? |
| Increased energy | Jillian Michael’s Ripped in 30 is a good start and follow it up with a 2-mile run listening to your new “Pleasuring a woman” book on your iPod. |
| Prevent heart disease, and lower cholesterol | Stay with Jillian Michael’s workout DVD and daily cardio. |
Shark-fin soup is also considered traditional and served at weddings and other events. But similar to a “Lords Right,” traditions do change and sometimes should.
So come on folks, consuming shark-fin soup is not going to truly improve anything and should find its place in history right next to human sacrifices and soon followed by kiddie beauty pageants. You’ve been suckered into believing its benefits long enough and now is a good time to make some real changes in your life to receive the sexual and financial prosperity you seek from a bowl of soup.
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Endangered pangolins rescued in Thailand 100 Pangolins worth about $32,000 were recently rescued in Thailand. According to the Guardian, the Pangolins were destined for a dinner table where it is believed eating them can cure ailments and boost sexual prowess. |
Free Brewed Coffee From Starbucks If You Bring In A Traveler Mug on Earth Day
April 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
For the second year, Starbucks will be offering customers a free cup of brewed coffee if they bring in their own or purchase a new traveler mug. It’s an Earth Day thing and it will be occurring all day on April 22nd in the US and Canada. My guess is that if Starbucks offered free brewed coffee randomly throughout the year, they could get their customers more into the habit of bringing in their own mugs.
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