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

Incredible green architectonics projects lifted off to the stars and charted the seas this week as Inhabitat showcased a solar-powered space pod hotel that could launch in 2016 and PayPal founder Peter Thiel invested $1.25 million to create a chain of floating micro-countries. Meanwhile, Apple unveiled new images of its spaceship-shaped command post and its Grand Central Terminal store, and OPEN planning











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design floated plans to transform a Zeppelin hangar into a green-roofed extreme sports center. Living green scheme projects also got a boost as Mexico unveiled plans to develop the world's largest urban park and an inconceivable crop of grass-covered cubicles sprung up in city Denver.



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share this: bike speed record, and binet-simon test unveiled what could very well be the fastest solar car ever built. We also watched the world's largest solar-powered boat arrive in Hong Kong as it continues its trip around the world, while Google Street View began mapping the Amazon using cameras set on canoes and trikes. Solar Roadways also orthodox a $750,000 grant to develop a large-scale installation and Zero2Infinity proposed act act a cheaper way to travel to space via an immense helium-filled balloon.



In other news, the past week was charged with renewable energy maturity as a 13-year-old kid harnessed the Fibonacci sequence to make a solar power boost and researchers big an energy-harvesting LCD screen that could one day power our gadgets. We also learned that deep-sea mussels can convert hydrogen into energy, we were shocked to see another shiny slick of oil turn up near a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico, and we saw Australia outfit its detail with photovoltaic systems. Finally, on the home front we brought you a set of fun LEGO LED lamps perfect for illuminating any room, and we shared five tips for greening your finances.

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