Inhabitat’s Week in Green: the world’s tallest skyscraper, mind-controlled robot exoskeleton and a Lego Bat Cave

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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At Inhabitat, we always keep our ear to the ground for new green building techniques and technologies as we look for more sustainable ways to shape our world. For the past year, we’ve been following the story of the Chinese developer BSB, who is planning to build the world’s tallest skyscraper — the entirely prefabricated 220-story building is set to break ground next month, and the building is expected to take just 210 days to build. In Chicago, transportation officials held an official groundbreaking ceremony last week for the “greenest street in America,” a 2-mile stretch of road that is paved with permeable, smog-eating pavement.

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