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Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, came to Sweden for a launch event of the Swedish edition of his new book 'Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism'

More than 5,000 trees will be planted with Eco-Libris to balance out the Swedish edition of the latest book from the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, 'Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism', which is now being published in Swedish by BookHouse Publishing.

Minnesota beat out 16 other states to land the International Renewable Energy Technology Institute (IRETI). IRETI will be a collaboration bewteen Minnesota, New York, Georgia and Sweden to exchange renewable energy technology.

Goteborg, Sweden - Volvo Trucks is taking an important step towards commercialization of hybrid technology for heavy vehicles by launching two hybrid refuse trucks that will be tested in regular daily operations in Sweden by refuse collection firms.

Volvo Car Corporation will develop a completely new racing car in 2008 and continue its work with bioethanol (E85) and Green Racing in the STCC (Swedish Touring Car Championship).

Going to the great beyond in a ufo-shaped urn made of paper that slowly dissolves seems like a good idea.

Jan-Eric Sundgren, Senior VP of Environmental Public Affairs, Volvo Group, describes Volvo's development of seven new models of trucks which run on various forms of alternative fuels.

Nicole left her swimsuit beside a swimming pool in Sweden, and a charity thought it a good idea to auction it off.

Just think about the excess body heat of a crowd of commuters. A turn-off, or turn on? A quarter of a million people a day pass through Stockholm Central station, but it’s not a problem – they’re seizing this opportunity to heat an adjoining office, hotel and shopping mall.

Sweden has reduced its emissions by 12.7 percent, more than agreed under the Kyoto Protocol.

Raz Godelnik of Eco-Libris interviews Jack Guest, the creator of a new film about the world getting better - 'A Convenient Truth'. "The film's about the possibility that things can get better. An Inconvenient Truth showed us in no uncertain terms that we face a huge problem on planet earth. A Convenient Truth looks at turning that problem into an opportunity, showing that we can make things work, for everybody."

Mankind's heavy environmental footprint, evidence shows, is largely the work of men. Could resolving the gender divide be the first step to tackling climate change?

There’s no need to rehash what we already know. The Arctic is Melting. It’s a fact that we are going to have to come to grips with. Shipping lanes are being changed, animals and natives are being displaced, and ice is disappearing faster than my digg friends when I attempt to swing the conversation away from bodily functions to politics.

Despite the close attentions of coastguard ships and helicopters, not to mention an anti-terrorist task force, 30 Greenpeace activists in inflatable boats intercepted a British Nuclear Group ship this morning as it headed towards Sweden to pick up a cargo of nuclear waste bound for reprocessing at Sellafield's MAGNOX plant. This breaks a 20 year commitment from the Swedish government not to reprocess waste, and the plan also begs a serious question of our ministers - why are we importing other countries' waste into the UK anyway?