Inhabitat's Week in Green: of electric tractor unicycles, garbage-powered garbage trucks, and luminous nanoparticle trees

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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This week we were blinded by the light as researchers unveiled a way
to transform city trees into luminous streetlights using gold
nanoparticles. We also showcased a mesmerizing paper LED structure
shaped like a tree at Tokyo Designers Week, and speaking of stellar
architecture, check out this stunning star-shaped Taiwanese tower
topped with a built-in wind turbine.

In other news, strap on your rollerblades and hang tight - from the
Department of Questionable Transportation comes the FlyRad, an insane
electric unicycle that pulls you down the street at 25 miles per hour.
Meanwhile, the city of Toronto is doing their part to preserve the
environment by rolling out a fleet of garbage trucks that can be
powered by the very waste they collect. Finally, the University of
Rhode Island signaled a bright future for efficient transportation as
they unveiled four designs that could tap the United States' 2.7
million miles of roadways for solar energy.

This week we also looked at several new applications for futuristic
manufacturing technologies - a dutch designer has pioneered a way to
create 3D printed shoes that fit feet perfectly, and researchers have
found that activated carbon cloth is a quicker picker-upper for toxic
waste. Finally, with the holidays on their way, this week we rounded
up our top ten green gadget gifts for 2010!