Apple, HP and Google take awards in 2011 Greenbest

Considered the highest award of consumption and sustainable initiative , the greenbest has as objective to show the best initiatives and projects to the market "green. "

Chosen by the Academy Greenbest the Apple's Ipad was the winner. The company has been promoting recycling programs and eliminating toxic chemicals from its products.

HP won by popular vote and what led the company to the prize was the F4480 Multifunction Printer. The product is made with up to 50% recycled plastic and the cartridge holds up to 70%.

And what led Google to the award was the google earth in the category website and applications. It was chosen by theGreenbest Academy the application allows Internet users see maps and environmental impacts such as melting glaciers in Greenland of 1980 to 2007.

Solar Plane

The experimental solar moved by solar energy realized its first international flight this friday, may 13.

Known as Solar Impulse, the plane left Switzerland to Belgium.

To test the plane's capacity of doing route comercial's plane, the journey last twelvw hours.

The Solar Impulse has already stood more than 26 hours in the air and hear only one person.

The responsibles for it want to make the plane fly around the world.

BBC

Google is Building the World's Largest Solar Tower Power Plant

Google is investing $168 million to help develop a solar energy power plant in California's Mojave Desert.

In cooperation with Brightsource energy, Google's official blog states that the new plant will hopefully generate 392 gross megawatts of solar power, or "the equivalent of taking more than 90,000 cars off the road over the lifetime of the plant," which is estimated to be 25 years.

Dubbed the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, the new solar tower will be the largest in the world. Standing approximately 450 feet tall, the new tower will use 173,000 heliostats (like the mirrors pictured above) to generate energy.

There are complexities to the project, however. The Atlantic points out that environmental conservation group Basin and Range Watch has been building a case against the solar farm, stating that the proposed site will damage the lushly populated surrounding ecosystem, which is inhabited by an endangered breed of tortoise.

TIME