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Check Out the Newest Upcycled Headphones

LSTN Headphones are back with a new, sleek over-the-ear design and dynamic charity campaign. The company out of L.A. has been salvaging wood from furniture companies around the world since 2012 to create cool, acoustically-sound and totally unique...

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Kenyan Learning Center Decorated with 70,000 Bottle Caps

Created as a large-scale interpretation of customary Maasai jewelry, the facade of the structure is a symbol of community pride, while the learning center's WiFi-enabled computer lab connects the remote, rural area with the rest of the world.

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In the great Cities vs Suburbs battle, companies and workers are voting with their feet and moving downtown

In this corner, the city represented by Richard Florida; in that corner, the suburbs represented by Joel Kotkin. The numbers give it to Florida.

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Artist Asher Jay highlights the ocean crisis, poaching and conservation through art

New York-based Artist Asher Jay is prolific when it comes to creating art that aims to highlight ecological crisis and the need for conservation. Her latest work focus on ocean life and will be on display at the American Museum of Natural History.

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French zoo to generate its own electricity from panda poo

Thanks to plans underway for a new processing plant to convert waste into electricity, pandas will soon be helping to cut this zoo's energy bill -- with heaps of their potentially-powerful poop.

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Refurbished iPhones and custom apps bring the smartphone revolution to seniors

For seniors that may be averse to technology, a new project could help improve their lives by combining a used smartphone with simple to use, custom designed apps.

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Kyle Wiens of iFixit interviewed on Spark

The TreeHugger regular describes the merits of fixing your own gadget on the popular Canadian tech show

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Edward Flattau: GOP's Renewable Fiction

What is really holding back a full-blown renewable energy boom is not technological shortcomings. It is the lack of political will to risk the fossil fuel industry's wrath.

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Q&A: Harvard sustainability office keeps goals focused

Since 2008, Harvard's Office for Sustainability has unified the campus around its ambitious set of sustainability goals.

Q&A: Harvard sustainability office keeps goals focused

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