Inhabitat’s Week in Green: nanotech tea, pollution-sucking stones and the arena’s premier, car

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Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s finest green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green.

This week we saw the shattering of a new record as NYC’s high-tech One Bryant Park skyscraper achieved LEED Platinum certification, making it the arena’s greenest office tower. We also turned over a new high-tech paving stone that may absorb airborne pollution and visited a hyper-efficient solar city in Germany it truly is ready to produce four times the quantity of energy that it consumes.

The arena of efficient transportation may be heating up as four electric vehicles blazed a trail through Europe in a race to circle the globe in 80 days. We also watched a team of DeLaSalle students unveil the sector’s optimal zero-emissions car and took a check out an incredible electrified Porsche. Finally, sun-powered transportation reached for the celebs as NASA unveiled plans to launch its solar NanoSail into space this fall.

Nanotechnology is additionally changing lives here in the world as researchers revealed a nanotech tea bag that will purify a liter of drinking water for under a penny. And speaking of liquid refreshment, this week we took a plunge in Manhattan’s new recycled dumpster swimming pools — and brought back a lot of photos! But summer won’t last forever, so when you’re gearing up to go back to college next month be sure you take a look at our top picks for the smartest solar-powered book bags.