"Mr Murdoch has bought a Toyota-made Lexus GS450H 'green' car, and other
practical measures include solar-powered golf carts to carry people round the
Fox film lot in Hollywood, building environmentally friendly studios, replacing
company fleets with hybrids, using renewable energy, and offsetting remaining
emissions by financing windpower in India.
The world's most prominent
media tycoon is being hailed by environmentalists as the most important of a
chain of high-profile new recruits to the battle to control climate change,
including Sir Richard Branson and Sir Terry Leahy, chief executive of Tesco.
His planned campaign 'to change the way the public thinks about these
issues' could be particularly effective because of the strength of his
operations in the United States, China and India, the three most critical
countries for tackling global warming. Mr Murdoch told his employees: 'We must
first get out own house in order.'
News Corporation has a carbon
footprint of at 641,150 tons a year and will now aim to be carbon neutral by
2010. News International, which publishes his British newspapers, and the
publishers HarperCollins will achieve this goal by the end of the year and all
books published by the imprint Fourth Estate are to be printed on recycled paper
from 1 July."
Just some more information about News Corp. going carbon neutral. I think this is Murdoch taking a step towards the left on the global warming issues. It is also a great step for the movement being accepted as a whole.
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