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One person's wreck is another person's low-tech solution

Darkfrog submitted, created time 3 weeks 1 day (www.nytimes.com)

Many of us have become disillusioned with traditional recycling, but I've got to love this one.

This is a neonatal incubator made out of car parts. The headlights become a heater. The fans control climate. Even the alarm is reused. In the United States, this would be a curiosity, but in the developing world, it could help health care workers avoid thousands of preventable infant deaths. Each incubator can be built for under $1000 (standard incubators cost forty times that).

But there isn't actually a serious incubator shortage in the developing world

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Turning Pollution into DVDs

sumsung submitted, created time 8 months 3 weeks (www.sciam.com)

Researchers announced this week that they are perfecting a procedure designed to turn pollution into a type of plastic used to make everything from DVDs to eyeglass lenses. The effort is being touted as a way to capture and use climate change–causing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from coal-fired power plants and other sources instead of releasing it into the atmosphere or burying it underground.

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Burning Tires--A New Source of Green Energy

Sue Wu submitted, created time 10 months 2 weeks (discovermagazine.com)

People are trying to do something for the environment--using scrap tires.

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