• Countries in Central America and the Caribbean rank highest on the Happy Planet Index list of places to live a long, sustainable life.
• Senate testimony begins on climate and energy legislation.
• The Bell Labs office park in New Jersey could become an indoor main street with residential units.
• Looking for green iPhone apps? Grist has a handy guide.
• Pickens walks away from plan to build world's largest wind farm.
• Here are ten low-tech ways to keep your house cool.
• A new McDonald's opening in North Carolina will be the first to have an electric car charging station in its parking lot.
• The New York Times profiles Will Allen, a Growing Green Award winner.
• San Francisco's mayor orders all city departments to audit unused land--including rooftops, median strips and more--to see what can be turned into community gardens or farms.
• Find out how the government's energy policy is sparking innovation with incandescent light bulbs.
• Google phone designers present the autonomobile, a seven-person moving living room that drives for you.
• Government unveils new rules that it will pay up to 30 percent of the cost of renewable energy projects.
• Members of Congress and consumer groups question purity of USDA regulated organic label.

Think I missed anything really great? Feel free to share it in the comments section. Want news updates every day? Check out my colleague Ben Jervey's blog on Greenlight.