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The Greenpeace Green Electronics Guide puts the spotlight on green gadgets.    Our Managing Editor Pete Danko interviewed Greenpeace's Casey Harrell on the 17th version of the guide.    Here's what our readers and staff are buzzing about from around the world this week: Manned Electric "Multicopter" Takes Off The vision of the future, at least according to Saturday morning cartoons, was jetpacks. We were all supposed to be zipping around our futuristic cities wearing jetpacks by the year 2000.   That didn’t happen (the robot maids and moon colonies have also yet to appear), but perhaps  the e-volo multicopter will be a viable alternative.   EPEAT Talks 5 Years of Greening Computers   For the last five years a rating system called the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool ( EPEAT) has been working to help consumers and manufacturers better understand the overall impact products have on the ecosystem based on a variety of different categories.   The registry of  green computing products has become yet another benchmark, like  Energy Star, for people to see how the items we use affect the world around us.   As the group’s fifth annual report on products is set to be released to the public, EarthTechling spoke with Sarah O’Brien, EPEAT’s Director of Outreach and Communications, to find out more about the rating tool, which is celebrating a doubling in registered  green products since 2010.     Solar Sandwich Uses Thin Film, Thermal How about a solar sandwich on your roof? No, we’re not talking about a roof-mounted  solar oven – we’re talking about a new combination of three green technologies brought together by Englert.   The  Englert Solar Sandwich, which combines the company’s standing seam metal roof system with  thin-film solar photovoltaic panels and a  solar thermal system, is said to reduce a home’s energy bill by 20 to 80 percent. Read more...   Wind Energy Storage Combined In Coal Country   West Virginia is Coal Country, but wind energy is making inroads there – with cutting-edge energy-storage capabilities, to boot. AES has announced the completion and full-scale commercial operation of its Laurel Mountain  wind power plant.   The 98-megawatt (MW) plant consists of 61 GE 1.6-MW wind turbine generators situated along a 13-mile stretch of Laurel Mountain near Elkins, West Virgina.  But what makes this project unique is its 32 MW of battery-based energy storage –  the largest advanced energy storage project of its kind. This week's Green Earthling Deal: $50 for $100 of Jewelry and Accessories at From War To Peace Only available for a limited time or until sold out.   Join the live dialogue on Facebook and Twitter.  If you have suggestions, email us at news@earthtechling.com.

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