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.
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News that Amazon will add three large biospheres to its downtown Seattle headquarters had the tech world buzzing this week. The domed structures will feature a mix of workspaces and gardens, and they’ll be flanked by a public park. Amazon’s big announcement wasn’t the week’s only surprise, though. A multinational consortium announced plans to develop a Dubai-style artificial island with a space hotel and a zero-gravity spa off the coast of Barcelona. And new research finds that “pinkhouses” – vertical farms that use only pink light – are much more efficient than those that use the full light spectrum.
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