It’s Friday… time for your round-up of interesting and innovative green tech stories.

• Sony Ericsson announces the release of two new “Greenheart” mobile phones. The company claims both models have a 15% lower carbon footprint than comparable models, and feature a minimum of 50% recycled plastic. (via eWeek)
  
  
• Ever had your hat blown off in an urban “wind tunnel?” Ohio-based start-up Green Energy Technologies is trying to replicate the effect of wind tunnels, and harness the energy, with its WindCube wind speed amplifier. (via earth2tech)
  
  

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I have an exciting announcement to make: The Streetcars are back! Temporarily shut down after the storm, now we hear them every night, that sweet sound of old wood rollin’ down the tracks outside our apartment building on Carondelet St – just three short blocks from Bourbon. Taken from my cell, that’s me on the car at night, happy as a gator in the bayou.

And while we’re on the subject, let us take a moment to honor the famous Tennessee Williams [www.imdb.com] play-turned-film, and the famous path [www.bourbonstreetexperience.com] that stretches across the historic French Quarter, laying claim to many a drunk out-of-towner.

A journal from New Orleans would be sorely lacking without a tip of the hat to Bourbon Street and its “Huge Ass Beers”. ‘Nuff said.

Rachel Clift
Producer