News you might have missed: 6 April 2009

Don’t worry if you avoided the papers and newsfeeds over the weekend: Greenbang is here with your daily dose of cleantech news and developments you might have missed:

• Scientists are finding that a variety of plants around the world are growing larger and faster as the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues to rise;
• Yahoo! reports that many US Christians are observing a “carbon fast” for Lent this year;
• Antarctica’s Wordie Ice Shelf has disappeared, US and British researchers announced Friday;
• Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has announced plans to build low-income housing using eco-friendly concrete made with used bullet casings;
• A US businessman wants to develop the “world’s largest urban farm” on blighted land in metropolitan Detroit.