• Green Party activist Peter Camejo dies.

• New Zealand parliament passes carbon trading bill.

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• France considers tax on disposable dishes.

• Google makes patent application for floating, wave-powered computer centers.

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• One blogger’s attempt to go veg just once a week.

• Greenland doesn’t want its whale hunting under IWC jurisdiction.

• What Hurricane Ike looked like from above.

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