In the same vein as my previous post, this one is also environmental:Dean Kamen (inventor of the Segway) makes his private island green.

The wacky part:

his North Dumpling Island as an independent nation and himself as Lord Dumpling. Kamen claims to have his own currency and offers visas to visitors to the tiny island a few miles from Mystic, where he is the only resident.

The cool part:

Visitors arrived on a wind-swept day, with Kamen’s wind turbine spinning a generator and solar panels facing the sky….Kamen has been installing LED lights all over the island.

“We have zero tolerance for filaments,” he said of incandescent bulbs.

Philips Color Kenetics, a Massachusetts-based company doing the project to draw attention to LEDs, says the lights cut Kamen’s electrical use at least in half.

Kamen showed his visitors his basement water purification system, which he already has put to work in Honduras. The system can turn water from any source into clean drinking water free of disease, he said.