Looking to keep up with all the news and developments in cleantech this week? Following are some recent headlines you might have missed:

• Defra has launched a “one-stop shop” to help individuals, businesses and other organisations become more resource-efficient;
• Chinook Sciences and European Metal Recycling have formed a commercial-scale joint venture to convert automobile shredder residue into renewable electricity and recover and recycle metal in the process;
• Jonathon Porritt is warning that the UK’s population should be no more than 30 million if the country expects to be sustainable;
• Officials are redrawing the border between Italy and Switzerland to account for melting snow and glaciers caused by climate change;
• The US Environmental Protection Agency has issued a finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger the public’s health and welfare;
• US insurance regulators have decided that insurance companies must now disclose how climate change is likely to impact their operations.

• Green technology investors seek safer havens in 2011
• New US consortium plans $1.4bn in cleantech investments
• What does 2011 hold for China, US?
• World Economic Forum: Cleantech rules
• Virtual design speeds green reality
• Opinion: Darling’s green bank idea is laughably small
• Some guys and Holy Grails: 5 rules for spotting ‘cleantech porn’
• Despite some ‘green shoots,’ cleantech VCs see trouble ahead
• Cleantech Connect Awards recognise fast-growing innovators
• Irish cleantech firms seek opportunities in Silicon Valley