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This week at TreeHugger:Apple has improved its recycling program, taking back your old iPods and cell phones (of any brand or model, not just iPhones) for free recycling. We got turned on by “Gravia,” an LED-lit floor lamp concept that combines human power and gravity to create a lighting source that will work for 200 years or so, and never need to be plugged in.

59 miles per gallon of gasoline, and that in a 1973 contest sponsored by Shell Oil (har, har). The car was chopped, shaved, cropped and otherwise souped down to get it as light and aerodynamic — remember, this was the ’70’s — as possible. Add some super-hard low-friction tires, an insulated fuel line and a few other odds ‘n ends, and there you have it: almost 400 miles per gallon.

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