Here’s your weekly run-down of breaking green tech stories…
- Need a reason to spend more time on Facebook? Timberland and changents.org have you covered with their new game Earthkeeper Heroes: Mission Possible. (via sustainablog)
- Read this… you’ll sh*t a brick: Indonesian company EcoFaeBrick has one solution for massive amounts of cow poop: make bricks from it. (via Springwise)
- Putting off building that eco-friendly city?: Wait no longer! The Clinton Climate Initiative has partnered with Autodesk on Project Two Degrees, “an Internet-based application that provides cities with a set of tools to measure, compare, and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at a local level.” Microsoft and CCI are also involved. (via PublicTechnology.net)
- “Green gas station” — an oxymoron, right?: The owners of the Knightsville Kangaroo gas station in South Carolina would disagree, as their new store features recycled materials in and out, and a full range of energy-saving technology.
- A Prius? How passé!: Jamaica’s The Gleaner reports that Toyota’s working on plans for a solar-powered car.
- Jetskis get greener: EcoWatercraft has plans to release an all-electric personal watercraft (i.e., jetski) by the end of the year (c’mon… you know you want one!). (via EcoGeek and Cleantechnica)
- Drink your pee… on the go: Nope, nothing kinky here (though a little gross) — designer Leonardo Manavella’s “Aqua H2O” gives new meaning to the phrase “pee in a cup…” and provides a source of drinking water for places short on this vital resource. (via Treehugger)
- Retro Hybrid: Turns out that GM had hybrid concepts on the books as far back as 1969… maybe it’s time to pull those back out! (via Gas 2.0)
- But do they deliver?: Architectural Association student Samantha Lee’s concept the Farmacy is “a floating urban farm that grows medicinal plants and herbs in a series of nets along the brick wall of Regent’s canal” in London. (via Inhabitat and The Design Blog)
What did we miss? Let us know in the comments…



May 30th, 2009 - 10:15 am
Might it be better to refer to it as “our World”.
Perhaps if we looked at everything having to do the the Earth as “ours” rather than “yours or mine”, we would come to take better care of it.
If we continue as in the past it won’t be worth having anyway.