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Richard Branson: Airlines Should Pay Emissions Tax

AP | ELIANE ENGELER | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business

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GENEVA — Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson told a forum on climate change Tuesday that aviation is a dirty business and that airlines should...

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Large-Scale Green Business Risk

Andrew Winston | Posted 03.17.2008 | Business

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This kind of risk — a market being redefined out from under you — is a bit scary. But companies that don't keep an eye on all these forces, from shifts in customer attitudes to wide-reaching laws and mandates, will disappear.

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Virgin Air Flying on Fumes?

Andrew Winston | Posted 02.27.2008 | Business

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While money is being poured into working on all kinds of biofuels, we need parallel experimentation on what to do with that fuel.

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Virgin Flies Biofueled Jet

AP | THOMAS WAGNER | Posted 02.24.2008 | Business

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LONDON — Virgin Atlantic carried out the world's first flight of a commercial aircraft powered with biofuel on Sunday in an effort to show it ca...

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The 60-plus Population: Living History

Carolyn Anderson | Posted 02.04.2008 | Living

Read More: Elderly, Virgin Airlines, Aging, Social Security, Eye Health, Retirement, Richard Branson, Richard Branson the Elders, Age 65, Unretirement, Living News

The population between the ages of 60 and 100 is the most untapped resource in society.

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Pie in the Sky

Amy Ephron | Posted 12.18.2007 | Entertainment

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Does the airline pay the studio a flat fee for the movie or is there, in fact, a digital download pie in the sky?

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