Green news harvest: Home Depot to recycle CFLs, 'peak carbon'

A sampling of green-tech news with quick commentary.
• Home Depot offers recycling for compact fluorescent bulbs--The New York Times
  To address mercury in CFLs. Note quote from EPA official saying that avoided mercury from less power generation exceeds the amount in bulbs.
• Difficult start at solar boat race in Netherlands--The Associated Press:
  With Netherlands not being the sunniest place on the planet and all.
• Peak carbon--Environmental Leader
  Sun Microsystems' chief sustainability officer Dave Douglas predicts carbon will start dropping based on different market drivers.
• Green products gain from new price equation--The Wall Street Journal
  High price of fossil fuels makes eco-products more cost competitive.
• Rising corn prices threaten to shutter ethanol producers, output--MarketWatch
  Here comes the ethanol shake-out. Ethanol plants are at risk of shutting down from rising corn prices, following biodiesel plants.
• Japan looks to solar subsidies to boost industry--Reuters
  After phasing out subsidies three years ago, Japan looks to bring them back to bolster solar industry.
• Resetting Earth's thermostat--The Los Angeles Times
  Conservative think-tank calls for geo-engineering research, specifically using sulfur particles in the atmosphere. Via WSJ Environmental Capitalism blog.
• Getting wrapped up in solar textiles--Science Daily
  Researcher imagines how solar textiles from organic photovoltaics can be used to generate electricity from curtains and other home items.