New year news round-up

We're back in the Construct Ireland offices, and hard at work on getting our January issue to the printers. Because of that there won't be much action on the website over the next week or two. I've trawled through a variety of websites and picked out various new year stories - many of them reviews of the year gone and predictions for the year ahead. Hopefully something will grab your attention.

From Jetson Green: top ten green stories of 2009, top ten shipping container projects of 2009, 19 green building innovations of 2009, 62 innovative green homes of 2009

From Green Building Advisor:  top ten energy efficiency stores of the past decade, Minnesota retrofit programme's popularity exceeds funding

From Inhabitat: themes from a decade of architecture, green design predictions for 2010, tiny solar PV cells look like snowflakes, Google unveils apps that monitor deforestation and home energy use

From Treehugger: the year in green modern homes, UK ecovillage gets government grant 

Some other interesting stories this morning: some interesting letters to the Guardian about green technology, important milestone reached in national smart meter plan, sales of energy efficient boilers on the increase in the UK