Documentary “TINY” Is About A Couple Building Their Less Than 200 Sq. Ft. Dream Home



I truly believe that the desire to live in a tiny house started when as kids, we built forts out of empty cardboard boxes. It was our comfortable space that we stocked with blankets, stuffed animals and possibly food rations. Unfortunately, the idea of living in and enjoying a small space is something most of us grow out of but for Merete Mueller and Christopher Smith of Colorado, it’s still real. They built their tiny home out of re-purposed wood and made a movie about it, “TINY”, documenting the build and why they decided to go small.

Merete and Chris are often asked through their blog why they just didn’t purchase a pre-fab single wide or RV and for them, building from “scratch” was the whole point of the project. They also liked that their tiny-house felt like a home.

For now, the movie is on pre-order and only available on DVD but hopefully it’ll be available online soon. [Core77]

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Philadelphia Phillies Fan Makes Shirt Out Of 3,000 Drink Tabs

Phillies fan makes a shirt out of 3000 drink tabs.Boy, the heckling he probably received from Philly fans might force him to follow the Mets. Then again, I don’t think they’re drink-tab shirt friendly either. [Buzzfeed]

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I’m Having Second Thoughts About The Greywater Sink & Toilet Combination

Eco Bath by Jang wooseokWouldn’t it be great if we could use the normally wasted greywater, the water that goes down the drain, to fill and flush our toilet? Seems like a no-brainer Jubbling idea and Jang wooseok has designed a toilet that melds a sink and a toilet to do just that. It’s not the first of its kind and his Eco Bath model works like the others by capturing the normally drained water from the sink into a holding tank that can be used to fill the toilet for flushing. Placing the sink on top of the toilet is great for people that live in small spaces and in a pinch, the attached sink could be used as a urinal. But I’m not as sold on the idea of filling the crapper with sink runoff anymore.
Eco Bath greywater toilet
What caused the change? For me, it was the idea of the greywater tank holding a couple of days of tooth-brushing and flossing water as well as the water from washing grubby hands. Accessing and cleaning the greywater tank from time to time would be a definite dirty job that might end up more challenging than scrubbing the toilet.

But I have to remind myself that Jubbling is about being inconvenienced and my whining about cleaning the greywater tank is just that. Maybe if I hadn’t heard about runoff toilet, I wouldn’t be so averse now to ideas like the Eco Bath. [Treehugger]

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Caine’s Arcade Video Has A Little Jubbling And A Lot Of Heart (Video)

YouTube Preview ImageYou have to watch this video on Caine’s Arcade. It’s the story of 9-year old Caine Monroy who built an arcade in his father’s auto parts shop out of used cardboard boxes, tape and tons of ingenuity. The video was made by Nirvan Mullick. I have a weird feeling this video is going to inspire quite a few kids to build their own arcade. [Treehugger]

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Tata’s Electric Micro Bullet-Proof Vehicle vs. Gas-Powered Weapon Of Mass Instruction

Tata MBPV or Raul Lemesoff's Weapon of Mass InstructionThis is a Jubbling conundrum. On the left, is Tata’s recently released MBPV electric urban assault vehicle and on the right, we have Raul Lemesoff’s gas powered “Arma De Instruccion Masiva” that was built out of a vehicle normally used for war but now drives around Argentina handing out donated books. Jubbling loves the electric vehicles but free books are hard to beat. I think I have to give it to the “Weapon of Mass Instruction.” It’s the name that puts it over the top. [Inhabitat]

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Plastic Bottles Recycled Into Polyester Clothing (Video)

YouTube Preview ImageUntil I watched this Nat Geo video from 2009, I had no idea turning plastic bottles into polyester thread for clothing was so labor intensive. Other than drinking or wearing the finished product, I wouldn’t want to perform any of the jobs needed to turn recycled plastic into clothing. Building boats like The Plastiki sure seems like a much better use of recycled plastic bottles. [core77]

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