Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green chrysalis and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green.

Building complicated wisdom got a brobdingnagian boost this week as Inhabitat reported on a new type of graphene super paper that is 10 times all the more so than steel and six times as light. We also took a look at several remarkable new root projects popping up around the world - from a self-sufficient floating golf course in the Maldives to London's gleaming new cable car system, to the Netherlands' plan to supercharge its roadways with solar panels.



Speaking of hot asphalt, this week the ultra-efficient Alerion race car blazed a trail at the Shell Eco-Marathon, clocking in an unbelievable 2,564.8 miles per gallon. Meanwhile, Fisker announced that its sexy static


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Finally, we looked at several futuristic example of wearable wave mechanics this week including a pair of RoboCop-like glasses that are capable of cat 400 faces per second at public events. We also brought you a glittering LED rucksack that lets cyclists send signals to drivers, a pollution-detecting t-shirt, and a clock that tells time by knitting a new scarf every year.

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