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A tropical retreat -- with a green theme

Posted by David Beard, Boston.com Staff March 20, 2008 11:37 PM

Besides partying, what brought together Google's Larry Page, Virgin's Richard Branson, Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, Sun Microsystems's Vinod Khosla, among other mega-millionaires?

Green issues, of course.

Andrew Ross Sorkin reported
that topics on a weekend retreat on a Branson-owned British Virgin Island ranged from the practicality of electric-powered cars to how much money would have to be invested in biofuels to reduce the price of crude to $35 a barrel

Everyone, it seems, has some green project in the works. Sorkin reported that Sun's Khosla, for example, has at least 33 investments in "clean tech," including new fermentation technology to make fuel-grade ethanol.

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