Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! ~ John Muir

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Voltree Power, a company created by Physicist Andreas Mershin and MIT undergraduate Christopher Love, is harvesting electricity from trees which it uses to power radio-equipped sensors that can be deployed to monitor climate conditions, detect illegal radioactive materials at border crossings, and even warn of wildfires. Honest. You can read more about this remarkable technology at conservationmagazine or .xconomy.com.