Thursday, September 21, 2006

Branson Pledges Billions to fight Climate Change

Sir Richard Branson, with former President Bill Clinton, announcing Virgin's commitments to clean technologies at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York

Surely a tipping point in private sector initiated environmentalism has been reached with Sir Richard Branson's committment of all profits of Virgin Group's aviation and locomotive businesses over the next 10 years--projected to amount to $3 billion--to invest in environmental technologies.