The Week in Green is the brand-new object from the friends during Inhabitat, recapping a week’s most engaging green developments as well as purify tech headlines for us.

The past week Inhabitat saw solar-powered transportation soar into space as Japan successfully unfurled a world’s first solar cruise aboard the Ikaros booster. We one after another our transportation coverage by receiving a took the look during the unconventional plant-powered photosynthetic concept automobile which seats riders within an enclosed jungle canopy. However if the Inhabitat editors commuted to work, it would substantially be around these amazing solar-powered plant cars!

In alternative headlines, the world of architecture is heating up with the onset of summer as countries around a globe gear up to betray high-tech sun-powered homes during the European Solar Decathlon. This week you took a look at dual of our favorites – a solar shelled Armadillo Box House and Finland’s hyper-insulated Luuku House, that is approaching to generate some-more appetite than it consumes. We also distinguished a launch of the 2010 World Cup by receiving the look at the technologies at the back of five overwhelming green stadiums that will be hosting this year’s games in South Africa.

Speaking of a World Cup, this week were also vehement to see a phenomenon of a brand new version of a sOccket, an energy-generating soccer ball that scores a idea for immature energy in building countries. We additionally took the look at the cheap solar-powered refrigerator for the developing universe that can be fabricated using local materials as well as could save millions of lives by storing and distributing vaccines.

Renewable appetite was additionally the hot topic this week — the UAE is on fire a trail with skeleton to erect a record-toppling solar plant which eclipses the distance of every photovoltaic plantation to date. We also saw home-grown algae power make the domestic debut in this gorgeous green Latro Lamp, that is fueled by a pond-scum powered bio-battery. And renewable appetite took to a streets this week as telecom provider Orange denounced a set of spiffy set of thermoelectric galoshes which assign your cellphone regulating heat from your feet.

Finally, this week you unveiled a little incredible brand-new uses for bland materials as we voiced a grand-prize winners of our 2010 Spring Greening DIY Design Competition. Speaking of innovative examples of repurposed design, we were additionally blown divided by this open-source printer made from LEGO bricks as well as a felt-tip pen. And if you demand on stability to make use of the standard printer, you can rest positive which there’s an inspired re-use for those lapsed ink cartridges – Australia recently denounced the bike trail done from them!