This 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]
Tata’s Electric Micro Bullet-Proof Vehicle vs. Gas-Powered Weapon Of Mass Instruction
April 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Plastic Bottles Recycled Into Polyester Clothing (Video)
April 9, 2012 By 1 Comment
Until 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]
Sorry Kids But You’re Not Done Until You’ve Eaten The Baguette Table
April 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Made out of stale baguettes, the Baguette Table by Gosia and Tomek Rygalik was created in the Vienna Design Week Laboratory and puts normally discarded food to use. Here’s the back story of Studio Rygalik’s art project:
Food thrown away in Vienna could feed half of the population of Graz [Austria]. The art project’s aim was to start a discussion about food waste. It was also to show that the materials to build from are all around us. The tables were made from stale baguettes that were supposed to be thrown away.
Now if we could get a couple Baguette Tables in the same room as the largest bowl of soup, we might have an amazing Reese’s moment.
For more information about food waste, check out Jonathan Bloom’s WastedFood.com. [Treehugger]
Silk Tie Dyed Easter Eggs. Jubbling?
April 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
First you’ll need to start with 100% silk ties. Right now we’re on skiing vacation, so rather than rid Mr. MK of a few duds laying around in his closet, I picked up a few from a thrift shop in Banff. It’s a good thing we were buying them to destroy, because the pickin’s were slim and ugly. - MommyKnows.com
I’m willing to accept the idea of the Easter Bunny delivering eggs and the connection to spring and fertility but I have to draw the line somewhere and it might be coloring Easter eggs with cut up silk ties. Offered as an alternative to the normal egg dyeing process using vinegar and food coloring, the “tie” dyed coloring option requires a silk necktie and 20 minutes of boiling.
Using silk ties to color Easter eggs – is this a good example of reuse or waste? Seeing how most of the ties used in the example on MommyKnows.com would be an upgrade for me, I’m leaning toward waste.
NQJW 10th Edition: hyMod Car Is Gas Or Electric, Turn Off Any TV And Pink Slime Is Jubbling
March 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Romanian company SCI is working on the hyMod car that can switch between being fully electric or a hybrid vehicle by having its engine swapped out at a designated changing station. This seems like another green idea where a company is so focused on figuring out how to do something when they really should be wondering why. [SmartPlanet]
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 Holy nuts… if you follow Mr. Davies advice, the TV-B-Gone would be better known as the Deathwish or Total-Dong device. The DIY remote was developed by Jinseok Jeon and will turn off any TV anywhere.
Stealthily turning off the TV in a bar for green reasons will never work because it’ll just be turned right back on and you might get your ass handed to you to boot. To see what happens to people when they’re caught turning off the TV among friends, not strangers, watch the video below. [Treehugger]
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 Jamie Oliver wants us to hate it and Maggie Koerth-Baker of BoingBoing wants us to appreciate it. Pink Slime, the concoction made of ammoniated animal parts normally discarded, has been taking a beating in the press. Maybe because it has been added to our ground meat without our knowledge for so long or maybe it’s the parts of the animal (rectal tissue?) used that make us want to gag.
Either way, Jubbling’s with Maggie Koerth-Baker on this. If you’re going to process an animal, might as well use it all but definitely label it. [BoingBoing]
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NASCAR Transtioning To Green? NASCAR Going Less Brown Might Be More Accurate.
March 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I’m kind of a cynic when it comes to the whole we’re going green nonsense. It’s a phrase that is too easily handed out like medals are to a military dictator. That’s why the article in the LA Time’s Greenspace, “NASCAR speeds transition to green,” kind of hit me the wrong way. Yes, NASCAR is doing this and doing that to lessen their environmental impact and as per the first commandment of Jubbling, we need to recognize their efforts as a positive. They’re going a better way and we’d like to see them do more of it.
But, and it’s a huge BUT, NASCAR and every other professional sports league is not about consuming less. They’re the opposite; they want you to eat and drink their sponsor’s products while being all swaddled up in your favorite team’s gear. I don’t hate NASCAR for pushing the consumption but just don’t insult us by calling the recent actions green or greened or greening up or going green; less brown is a better way to describe their efforts and for that, they should give themselves a cool medal.
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