Ok, we survived Seattle’s Snowmageddon last week but Jubbling.com had to suffer another post-free week. Of course I blame my kids for this and will now find a way to put them to work furthering the Jubbling cause.
What did we miss? How about the proposed indoor carbon neutral ski resort that is planned for 2015 in Barcelona Spain. Yes, they need snow because it’s not available year round and to appease and appeal to the green folks, they’ll make it carbon neutral by using the cool energy that is generated when sub-zero liquefied natural gas is converted back to its gaseous state. In addition to the converted natural gas, the indoor ski resort will use solar and plant waste to power the facility. Dutch company SnowWorld, builder’s of Dubai’s indoor Ski Dubai, will be construct the facility in partnership with B01 Arquitectes of Barcelona.
Jubbling’s take: Nature defying projects like this kill us. Yes, they are making an effort to consume less resources and we normally see good in those kind of efforts. But this “tickle and slap” faux environmental-sensitivity drives us nuts! Save the layer of green paint, take a step back and just admire the amount of sucking that goes into a project like an indoor ski resort built in a city that most people want to escape to during the winter months. Instead of figuring out how to build it, they should really wonder why. [Treehugger.com]
Gizmodo posted an article about the “bleak circumstances” facing North Korea due to the policies of their former leader Kim Jong-Il. How did they represent this? By showing a satellite image with no lights turned on in North Korea at night. So as Jubbling goes, maybe there was one upside.
It’s amazing the bad things people will do when money is on the line. In an effort to avoid tire disposal fees at official waste sites, Carl David Steele of FCM Logistics Ltd. collected and then illegally dumped 1 million+ tires across England from October 2009 until January 2011. His operation first received the attention of the Environment Agency in 2009 for storing thousands of used tires without a license. Little did they know at the time but the EA only saw the tip of his soon-to-be illegally dumped tire empire. Mr. Steel will serve 15 months in prison for his crime and it will cost everyone else approximately $800,000 to clean up his mess. [
And in fabricated news, the new Carl David Steele Tire Playground will be opening near a refugee camp on the Thai border in 2014. Designed by AnneMarie van Splunter and built out of used tires, the huge and freakishly crazy 
Is it truly viable? Probably not. Is it Jubbling? A little. Ideas like this are more about research and it does bring to mind what would’ve happened if the Segway took off the way they expected it to. I think the movie Wall-E does a good job of capturing the results of a Segway powered society.
Blank us on ......