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Jar Lamps By James Shaw Light Up the Ordinary

Images: James Shaw As you may have guessed already, here on TreeHugger we are big fans of both cutting-edge on one hand, and a range of clever reuse ideas for everyday items on the other. Coming from the virtue of reuse, UK designer James Shaw’s simple but elegant Jar Lamps fit the bill quite nicely. Infusing these nondescript objects with new utilitarian life, Shaw also gives the jars a modern DIY aesthetic twist – coming up with a whole collection of them in fact (more images after the jump). With so many possibilities of form and material potentially available in ordinary objects, perhaps this may spur some readers out there to stick a… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Giant GOLD Balloon to Clean Up Space Junk

Image via Space Daily Scientists have been calling out for clever ideas on how to clean up space junk for years now, and with President Obama’s recent backing of getting the outskirts of our planet cleared of debris, more ideas seem to be pouring in. Some have been way out there, such as

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Obama’s New Space Policy Includes Cleaning Up Space Junk

Image credit NASA, via Popular Science Announced earlier this week, President Obama’s new National Space Policy is focusing on pollution both here on Earth and the space surrounding it. The new policy hopes to see an international collaboration to hone in on monitoring climate change with satellites and cleaning up space debris, which is viewed as a threat to space exploration (to which

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