Speakeasy

Published November 14, 2007 5:00am ET



This was before ‘An Inconvenient Truth.’ … When someone you respect is willing to fly halfway across the world just to see you, you take him very seriously. For three or four hours, while I just sat on the sofa, he gave me a personal, one-on-one lecture.”

– Virgin’s Richard Branson, telling Outside magazine how Al Gore helped him go green