Chairman and CEO of Virgin Group Richard Branson pledged an estimated $3 billion to combat global warming. Branson, who made the announcement during the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City, said that over the next 10 years he will invest 100 percent of all profits from Virgin's transportation businesses toward tackling this international problem.
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Clinton Global Initiative: Richard Branson on Global Warming
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Video: Virgin Atlantic Becomes the World's First Airline to Fly on Biofuel
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Virgin Atlantic has become the world's first airline to fly on biofuel from London Heathrowto Amsterdam.The airline flew one of its Boeing 747s using a sustainable type of biofuel based on coconut and babassu oil - the first time in the world that an airline has run this biofuel in-flight.
Submitted by EPTV on Mon, 2008-02-25 17:58. | Tags: technology | airlines | airplanes | alternative fuel | biofuel | carbon | climate change | coconut oil | global warming | richard branson | sustainability | sustainable | travel | video | virgin atlantic
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