Folks at MIT's D-Lab are turning trash into treasure - specifically, trash to heat homes and cook in developing countries. It's not magic - it's engineering!
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Hosted and written by: Lindsey Wang
Additional scripting: Elizabeth Choe, George Zaidan
Executive producer: Elizabeth Choe
Director: George Zaidan
Production Assistant: Ryan Pelletier
Editor: Per Hoel (http://perhoel.org/)
Doodles by Elizabeth Choe, animated by Per Hoel
Special thanks: Jessica Huang, MIT D-Lab (http://d-lab.mit.edu/)
Music
"Unit" by Jazzafari (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jazzafari/Jazzafari_BeaTape_Vol1/10_jazzafari_-_unit)
"Union Square" by James Beaudreau (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/James_Beaudreau/Soft_Power_bw_Union_Square/02_Union_Square)
Charcoal briquette making footage from Amy Smith, MIT D-Lab (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqI63IEg3MM)
Haiti deforestation image from NASA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_in_Haiti#mediaviewer/File:Haiti_deforestation.jpg
Camcorder overlay http://www.videvo.net/video/camcorder-overlay-with-noise-+-alpha/163)
Coal background image from Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smoldering_charcoal_briquettes.JPG)
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