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Google and NASA Team Up for a Green Flight Challenge with $1.65M Prize

5:32 pm in airplanes, Cars & Transportation, contests, google, nasa by TreeHugger

google-green-flight-challenge.jpg Photo: Mary Paulose under a Creative Commons license. Air travel may be time efficient, but based on planes' carbon emissions, it's not good for the environment. And while purchasing carbon offsets is a good move, it's just a drop in the bucket. Tha's why Google has teamed up with aircraft technology research group the Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Some Michigan Airports Are Growing Their Own Fuel

12:04 pm in agriculture, airplanes, aviation, biodiesel, Cars & Transportation by TreeHugger

photo mustard seeds example dtw airport Photo by Chris Willis/CC Airports need lots of room for planes to leave and land. And airplanes spew a lot of greenhouse gases. Idea: Grow crops on airport property to power the planes, and maybe help offset carbon emissions. It's an idea that may be taking off in Michigan. Yep, taking off. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cyclists Beat Airplane in a Race Across Los Angeles

11:35 pm in airplanes, bikes, california, Cars & Transportation by TreeHugger

bike and airplane photo Photo: richardmasoner / cc Carmageddon may have come and gone without causing too much chaos on in car-driven city of Los Angeles, but that's not to say there were no winners resulting from the closing of a busy 10-mile stretch of freeway over the weekend. In response to one airline's offer of ridiculously low fares to fly over LA this weekend, a group of cyclists challenged an airplane to a race to see which vehicle actually offers the better deal. A...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Nesting Turtles Close JFK Runway in ‘Zen’ Moment

7:00 am in air travel, airplanes, animals, aviation, Cars & Transportation, new york city, Travel & Nature, turtles by TreeHugger

diamondback terrapin turtle photo A diamondback terrapin turtle. Photo: Christina Mohrmann/Grand Bay NERR via U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters / Creative Commons. The eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland and severe winter storms in Europe both ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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More NYC Geese To Be Killed This Year – And Sent to Pennsylvania Slaughterhouse

2:51 pm in air travel, airplanes, animals, birds, Business & Politics, new york city by TreeHugger

prospect park geese photo Image: passer-by via flickr New York City has just started another round of killing hundreds of geese, at taxpayer expense, despite that the cull has so far failed to limit geese population growth or improve air safety. The geese culls have Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Flying With Fossil Fuels May Sometimes Be Greener Than Biofuels – At Least In Extreme Examples

11:28 am in airplanes, alternative energy, biofuels, carbon emissions, renewable energy by TreeHugger

flying photo photo: Will Luo/Creative Commons For anyone that's paid attention to the world of biofuels, specifically the impact that land-use changes and cultivation method can have on lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions, this won't come as a shock: New research in Environmental Science and Technology shows that in extreme cases burning fossil fuels in airplanes may be the greener choice than biofuels. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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