Branson Takes to GreenRoad
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Clean-tech investors Benchmark Capital and Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Green Fund are wagering that rating a driver's performance can offer a profitable path to improved fuel economy and reduced accidents and carbon dioxide emissions. The two venture funds said Thursday that they, along with Balderton Capital, are investing $14.5 million in GreenRoad Technologies, whose in-vehicle devices [...].
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LONDON, Feb. 9 -- British billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson, with former vice president Al Gore at his side, on Friday offered a $25 million prize for anyone who can come up with a way to blunt global climate change by removing at least a billion tons of carbon dioxide a year from the Earth's...
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British mogul Richard Branson pledged to spend three billion dollars in the next 10 years on a variety of projects to combat global warming and reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
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Billionaire Richard Branson aims to take his company to the final frontier.
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Airline mogul and adventurer Richard Branson announced plans Monday to boldly go where no private transport company has gone before &#151; into space.
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Portugal's three busiest airports began offering arriving travelers the option of renting environmentally friendly gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles during their stay, environmentalists said.
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British tycoon Richard Branson urged airlines and airport operators to join his Virgin Atlantic carrier in an ambitious plan to curb the aviation industry's contribution to global warming.
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Airline tycoon Richard Branson announced on Friday a $25 million prize for the first person to come up with a way of scrubbing greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere in the battle to beat global warming.
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Sir Richard Branson, owner of the Virgin Group, announced on Monday that he would offer travelers the chance to go to the edge of space beginning in 2007, for $190,000 a ticket.
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The race for the first carbon-neutral, zero-emissions community is on, from Costa Rica to Libya to an island in San Francisco Bay.
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Richard Branson pledges $3 billion to stop global warming.
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British business mogul Richard Branson on Thursday pledged to invest about $3 billion over the next decade to combat global warming and promote alternative energy, saying that it was critical to protect the environment for future generations.
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Environmentalists think ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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British entrepreneur Richard Branson landed in Kenya on Saturday on Virgin Airlines' maiden flight to the east African country and vowed to help protect some 2,000 elephants threatened by encroachment.
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Billionaire British businessman   Richard Branson on Thursday committed $3 billion over the next   10 years to combating global warming.
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Sir Richard Branson, airline mogul and adventurer, announced plans yesterday to boldly go where no private transport company has gone before -- into space.
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British billionaire Richard Branson   proposed on Wednesday changes to aircraft movements at busy   airports and the way planes land under a plan he said would cut   the world's aviation emissions by up to 25 percent.