This captured rainwater toilet flushing project looks neat but looks like a lot of work. [Treehugger.com]
Using Captured Rainwater To Flush Your Toilet
December 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This captured rainwater toilet flushing project looks neat but looks like a lot of work. [Treehugger.com]
Amron’s Vanishing Fruitwash Labels By Scott Amron
October 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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]
Even Procter & Gamble Wants You To Wash Your Clothes In Cold Water
September 20, 2011 By 1 Comment
My bad here – I’ve spent so much of my Jubbling focused on the dryer-free clothesline phase of doing laundry that I lost sight of the washing side. The NY Times is even jumping into this with their article Cold-Water Detergents Get a Cold Shoulder about how 3/4 of the energy used to wash our clothes comes from heating the water and how energy saving cold water detergents will get your clothes just as clean their hot water equivalents. According to the story, Procter & Gamble estimates that only 38% of global detergent use is with the cold water variety and they’d like to see that number improve to 70%.
Why do people still insist on using hot/warm water to wash their clothes? It couldn’t be a germ – bacteria – virus thing because the washer water never gets hot enough to kill any of these. More than likely it’s about habit and like other bad habits, now is a good time to give it a break.
Related article: Debunking The Hot Water Laundry Myth – Why Are Consumers So Superstitious & Stubborn?
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. |
Teach Your Kids Now About The 2-Minute Shower
August 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
We can’t all go European but when it comes to bathing, our pre-teen kids would if we let them. Showering is something they don’t want to but have to do. My kids think swimming in a lake or participating in a water fight equates to bathing; something they probably learned from me. But since we’re tasked with making them bathe, why not incorporate some Jubbling and encourage them to shorten the process? I’m happy to report that all three of my kids are Jubbling their showers by rinsing and then scrubbing up with the water off, followed with a final rinse and then they’re out.
Now is a great time to help them develop good habits and in my case, it may be the only wisdom I have to impart. Oh, except the “if it’s brown flush it down; if it’s yellow, leave it mellow.” I guess they’ve learned three things from me.
GreenFest Is Coming To A City Relatively Close To You
April 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The 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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