Interesting .....
New Ways to Catch Rays from Nova's "Saved by the Sun"
Cradle to Cradle inspiring video Waste = Food
Many terrific examples (it turns to English a couple of minutes into the video) Ford Motor Company is between 30:20 and 39:10 while information on green housing alternatives for 6 pilot cities in China are discussed starting at 39:10 through 48:00 minutes.
A Solar Grand Plan
By 2050 solar power could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse gas emissions (article from Scientific American)
Integrated renewable's grid in Germany
Fiber-based Nanotechnology in Clothing Could Generate Electricity
Dark Side of Solar Cells Brightens
A life cycle analysis proves that solar cells are cleaner than conventional fossil fuel power generation
Collapse by Jared Diamond is an insightful book.
See Charlie Rose's interview with Jared Diamond . To see a longer video, Jared Diamond Video Presentation of Collapse - Video of a talk given at The Earth Institute at Columbia University in April 2007 (these links are taken from wikipedia's entry on Jared Diamond which includes other interesting content)