Green Options

Click the image above to hear Richard Branson, head of Virgin Atlantic Airways, talk about his commitment to develop “clean fuels” for aviation. Back in 2006 Branson said he’d put 100% of Virgin’s future profits, or $3 billion over the next 10 years, into fighting global warming. That includes $1 billion earmarked for [...]

On the top of the rollercoaster that is environmentalism once again, we find that Richard Branson, everyone’s favorite billionaire, is greening up the Virgin Atlantic skies. His Virgin Group is hoping to start producing clean biofuels hopefully by the beginning of the next decade.

Speaking at a Mortgage Bankers Association meeting in Boston, Branson said that Virgin hopes to provide clean biofuels to buses, trains and cars within the next three to four years.

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Associated PressSir Richard Branson, head of Virgin Group, has offered $25 million for the first person or group who can come up with a technology to remove one billion tons of green house gases from the atmosphere per year for ten years.

Branson told reporters at a news conference that he created the Virgin Earth Challenge because, "The Earth cannot wait 60 years. We need everybody capable of discovering an answer

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