Grey Owl is a Canadian outdoor hero whose name still resonates more than 60 years after his death.

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Grey Owl is a Canadian outdoor hero whose name still resonates more than 60 years after his death.

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Born entirely in the fertile imagination of an English schoolboy, Archibald Stansfield Belaney, Grey Owl became the most famous aboriginal of his day. It was a role that Belaney developed, embraced and was consumed by until his death.

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In his Grey Owl persona of mixed Apache / Scottish ancestry, Belaney became an internationally famous writer, lecturer, radio broadcaster and film star.

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Belaney was born in Hastings, England in 1888. As a child he became fascinated by North American Indians (Aboriginals) and came to Canada in 1906.

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Perhaps the strongest influence of Belaney in his Grey Owl role was Gertrude Benard, a young Iroquois woman who became famous in Anahareo as Mrs. Grey Owl. She was a driving force behind his writing and his espousal of conservation as a way of life.

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During this time, he was in high demand for speaking engagements around the world. Grey Owl was a smooth and polished performer with a flair for the dramatic gesture.

British billionaire Richard Branson said Monday that his Virgin Group hopes to produce clean biofuels by around the start of the next decade and early next year will test a jet plane on renewable fuel.

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Virgin hopes to provide clean fuel for buses, trains and cars within three or four years, Branson told a Mortgage Bankers Association meeting in Boston.

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In the meantime, Virgin will be conducting a test jet flight on renewable fuels. Early next year we will fly one of our 747s without passengers with one of the fuels that we have developed, Branson said at the annual conference.

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Virgin is developing biofuels for aircraft in conjunction with Boeing and engine maker GE Aviation, a unit of General Electric. Previously, Branson had said the company would test the fuel sometime next year and that some people had said it would be late in the year.

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Air New Zealand has said it plans to test a flight on a combination fuel of biofuel and kerosene in late 2008, but Virgin is trying to beat that airline by testing biofuels first.

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Branson pledged last year to spend all the profit over the next 10 years from his 51 percent stake in Virgins airline and rail businesses on fighting global warming

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orest-Smart Buying Can Lower Your Carbon Footprint

Grey Owl is a Canadian outdoor hero whose name still resonates more than 60 years after his death.

orest-Smart Buying Can Lower Your Carbon Footprint

Grey Owl is a Canadian outdoor hero whose name still resonates more than 60 years after his death.