Sunday Times releases Top 100 Green Rich List: Gates, Khosla, Allen among eco-pioneers

In the UK, the Sunday Times released its Green Rich List, the top 100 fortunes who have become “eco-pioneers“. At the top of the list, wind power investor Warren Buffett and renewable fuel investor Bill Gates, along with notables such as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Paul Allen, Google founders Serget Brin and Larry Page, T. Boone Pickens, David Rockefeller, Ted Turner, John Doerr and Vinod Khosla.

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