• The mobile waste-to-ethanol unit: Easy Energy Systems' MEPS unit is a modular system for converting organic wastes to ethanol. Find out more about the system and its application in an interview with EES' founder at Cleantechies.
  
  
• Walkability as a marketing point for real estate? Apparently so... Walkscore now boasts a presence on over 10,ooo real estate websites that "are using its neighborhood mapping and data services to market their properties."
  
  

• Industrial-strength rainwater harvesting: Seattle-area healthcare laundry service Sterile Surgical Systems has cut their massive water footprint significantly with a combination of rainwater harvesting and water treatment and recycling. (via Seattle Times)
  
  
• Low-tech trike mower: PrintCollection uncovered a 1984 patent for a pedal-powered lawn mower... perhaps it's time to bring this one into production (via Buck's Weird News Blog)
  

• Nokia still tops in greener electronics: That's the word from Greenpeace, which released the latest update on its Guide to Greener Electronics. The Finnish company has stayed ensconced in that position; the biggest mover this time was Toshiba, which dropped from 3rd place to 14th. (via Fast Company)
  
  
• Alabama airships: 21st Century Airships, a division of E-Green Technologies, will build its updated versions of the blimp (they prefer airships) in Alabama... so another win for the green jobs push. The vehicles can be used for transporting cargo and people very efficiently, and could even be employed by the military for high-altitude observation.
  
  

• Scots get paid to recycle: British supermarket chain Tesco has been testing out Tomra recycling machines (which "pays" recyclers with reward points) at one branch in Edinburgh, and is so happy with the results that its expanding its offerings to another store... with more planned.
  
  
• Research product sustainability right in the store: GoodGuide has released an iPhone app that "...lets you scan bar codes for what the guide calls "impartial" health, environmental, and social responsibility ratings of not only the products you are scanning but their companies, too." (via CNET Health Tech)

• Beyond carbon emissions: Clean Production Action and ChemSec have released a new report focused on "the advances that seven electronics companies have made when it comes to eliminating hazardous materials from their products." (via ZDNet GreenTech Patures)
  
  
• It's an honor just to be nominated: The LA Auto Show has announced the finalists for its Green Car of the Year Award, which will be presented at the show in December.
  
  

• Online vegetable trading: Got more tomatoes from your garden then you could possibly eat? Really want some homegrown watermelon? Veggie Trader is a new site that allow you to "...trade, buy or sell local homegrown produce." (via Planet Green)
  
  
• EVs hit prime time: Prime time television, that is: Jay Leno plans to host a "Green Car Challenge" regularly on his new show that will feature "...celebrities who will take turns trying to best one another's track times in a specially prepared Ford Focus-based battery car." (via Examiner.com)
  
  

• Ethanol from waste gases: Australian company LanzaTech won the Green Technology Innovator of the Year award at the Asia Pacific Industrial Technologies Awards in Singapore for its technology that captures waste gases from steel mills for recycling into ethanol.
  
  
• Build your own green house... Lego style: German company HIB has developed a kit building system that works an awful lot like Legos, and creates a well-insulated, soundproof, and non-toxic frame for almost any style of house. (via Springwise)
  
  

Summer's coming to an end, but ice cream and watermelon are still on the radar... as green tech finds.

• Gardening online: Nope, it's not a new Facebook app. Italian company Azienda Agricola Giacomo Ferraris has created a sort of CSA 2.0 -- Italians can design a garden online, and the company plants the vegetables requested, and delivers the produce from the garden to the customer's door. (via Springwise)
  
  
• Online sustainability training: Looking to update your skill set for the green economy? Nevada's Truckee Meadows Community College has a new online certificate program in green technology; the University of Wisconsin-Extension is offering a full online bachelor's degree program in sustainable management.
  
  

• Fart-powered fuel cells? Sort of... Danbury, Connecticut-based FuelCell Energy recently installed two fuel cell power plants at food processor Gills Onions that "...create electricity using old onions and a process that mimics how the human body expels gas"
  
  
• Solar-powered parking: Austin, Texas is replacing traditional parking meters with "pay stations [that] are solar-powered, take credit cards, debit cards and coins, and will replace the 3,800 outdated single-space parking meters around the city."