Each week our friends at Inhabitat (http://inhabitat.com/) recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green.
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The start of May saw an abundance of groundbreaking stories about flora and fauna -- first, there was the heartwarming story of Naki'o, the first dog to be fitted with four prosthetic limbs (http://inhabitat.com/nakio-is-the-first-bionic-dog-fitted-with-four-prosthetic-limbs/) after losing his legs to frostbite. Then we were surprised and slightly disturbed to learn that scientists in Uruguay used genetic engineering to create glowing sheep (http://inhabitat.com/scientists-in-uruguay-genetically-engineer-sheep-to-glow-under-uv-light/) with genes from the Aequorea victoria jellyfish. In other illuminating news, a team of bioengineers in San Francisco is using genes from fireflies to create plants that glow (http://inhabitat.com/glowing-plant-project-kickstarter-campaign-creates-bioluminescent-plants-for-natural-lighting/). And the Institute of Space Systems in Germany announced plans to use Heliospectra's new LED lighting systems to conduct research into growing vegetables in outer space (http://inhabitat.com/german-aerospace-center-to-use-led-lighting-system-to-cultivate-veggies-in-space/).
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