Ted Turner
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born 1938.  founded CNN.  Cable News Network.
 
1B gift to UN which founded the UN Foundation  Turner is Chm of Bd of Directors.
 
Father's billboard biz which he took over at age 24 after father's suicide.
 
Devoted to enivronmentalism and capitalism.
 
Own more land than any other American... bison.
 
Today I head Ted interviewed by Tom Brokaw on Face the Nation...
he said that we need to spend a trillion dollars building out the electricity grid so that
energy can be delivered from mid-west  (where the wind and wind farms are)  and from
the SW where the solar farms should be.
 
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