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Tech titans plan to save the planet
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by Barbara McPherson | April 24, 2009 at 08:13 am
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president of eTech entrepeneurs Larry Brillant of Google and Jeffrey Skoll founding president of eBay are bringing their money and expertise to bear to fight what they see as urgent threats to the planet.
They are putting their money where their mouths are with a start up budget of $100 million to fund an 'Urgent Threats Fund'.
Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, who helped to eradicate smallpox, is to leave his job as head of Google.org, the search giant's philanthropic arm, to lead the Skoll 'Urgent Threats Fund', created this month by Jeffrey Skoll, former founding president of eBay and head of the Skoll Foundation.
The new fund aims to bring money — some $100 million to begin with — along with advocacy, technology and Hollywood, to bear on five threats facing humanity and the planet: climate change, water scarcity, pandemics, nuclear proliferation and conflict in the Middle East. Nature News asked Brilliant about how he intends to help save the world.
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at 10:12 on April 24th, 2009
Interesting to see what happens here..