Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green. Groundbreaking green architecture burst into life in Sweden this week as Inhabitat reported that Plantagon began construction on the world's first
'Plantscraper' vertical farm. We also marveled at artist Yayoi Kusama's dazzling
Infinity Mirror Room, which shines with the reflections of thousands of LEDs, and we shared the bubbly modular
AMPS living wall system. Meanwhile, the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program announced that
HWKN's bright blue spiky sea-urchin shaped pavilion will be popping up this summer, PinkCloud.DK unveiled plans to transform oil refineries into
giant energy positive communities and the UK granted planning commission for its
first amphibious house.
We also showcased several amazing applications for LEGO bricks this week: a NYC apartment renovated with
20,000 plastic bricks, a gigantic
LEGO-inspired church in the Netherlands and a remarkable
fully articulated prosthetic LEGO arm. Speaking of next-gen prosthetics, this week Israeli scientists demoed a
real-life "Star Trek" VISOR that enables the blind to see, and Nike took the wraps off a prosthetic running sole for amputee triathlete Sarah Reinertsen.
This also marked a heated week for energy news as solar power heavyweight
Sunpower sued Solarcity over stolen data, and Aquamarine Power geared up to connect its
new wave energy generator to the UK's national grid. We also got ready for rough days ahead with the waterproof, armageddon-ready, solar-charged,
battery-powered iPhone case, and we got things cooking with
Biolite's brilliant new camping stove, which converts waste heat into electricity for USB gadgets. Last but not least, we were wowed by several amazing new applications for discarded tech: Sean Avery's astounding animal sculptures
made from shattered CDs and Paola Mirai's elegant jewelry fashioned out of
discarded computer circuits.
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