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12:04 pm in agriculture, airplanes, aviation, biodiesel, Cars & Transportation by TreeHugger
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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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2:20 pm in agriculture, air travel, alternative energy, aviation, biofuels, renewable energy by TreeHugger
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Today is the day! As I reported last week Germany airline Lufthansa has now begun using biofuels on about one-third of its flights from Frankfurt to Hamburg. The fuel is supplied by Finland's Neste Oil and until now, apart from officially not containing palm oil (phew!), the...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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11:48 am in aviation, los angeles by TreeHugger
It's a 40 mile drive from Long Beach To Burbank, and you don't even have to drive the 405. But this weekend they are closing that highway down for repairs, and it's going to be Carmageddon in Los Angeles. But don't worry; JetBlue to the rescue.
"This will be our shortest commercial flight," JetBlue spokewoman Sharon Jones told The Times. "We thought this would be a fun and unique idea. We looked at it as a way to introduce our product to customers who have never...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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10:40 am in air travel, airlines, alternative energy, aviation, biofuels, carbon emissions, renewable energy by TreeHugger
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Lufthansa looks set to make aviation history: Using biofuels on a regularly scheduled route. From July 15, one Lufthansa Airbus A321 will ply the 244 miles route from Frankfurt to Hamburg with one engine burning petroleum-based fuel and the other burning biofuel supplied by Finland's Neste Oil. Eight of the airlines' daily 28 flights on the ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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7:47 am in air travel, aviation, Business & Politics, carbon footprints, economics, united kingdom by TreeHugger
Britain's Foreign Office has already asked ambassadors and civil servants to fly economy in an effort to cut their carbon emissions. (See Mike's excellent guide to greener flying on why the demand business class seats creates more emissions per passenger mile.) Now the Guardian reports that British Prime Minister David Cameron will be asking a Read the full story on TreeHugger
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9:02 am in air planes, aviation, Science & Technology by TreeHugger
Aircraft-induced cloud hole over Antarctica, image courtesy Science/AAAS
Definitely interesting: New research in the journal Science shows how airplanes can affect the local weather around airports. As the planes fly through the clouds, they can punch holes through ones contained supercooled water, in turn stimulating precipitation. This research shows that increased in private and commercial flights are having an impact similar to cloud seeding, increasing snowfall around the world's major airports.
The arti...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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7:00 am in air travel, airplanes, animals, aviation, Cars & Transportation, new york city, Travel & Nature, turtles by TreeHugger
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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12:02 pm in air planes, alternative energy, animal rights, aviation, biofuels, farming, Food & Health, vegan, vegetarian by TreeHugger
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Definite mixed environmental messages here: KLM has announced that it has completed the first biofuel-powered scheduled flight. Good, no, great.
Decidedly less great, bad even: The fuel used on the flight, from the Netherlands to Paris, was made by Dynamic Fuel...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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9:10 am in air planes, alternative energy, aviation, biofuels, renewable energy by TreeHugger
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An important milestone in aviation biofuels: Honeywell has scheduled for today the world's first trans-Atlantic non-stop jet flight powered by biofuel. Flying between Morristown, New J...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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6:00 am in air travel, alternative fuel, aviation, Cars & Transportation, fuel efficiency, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger
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Not much has changed since Mat reported on Greenopia's Greenest Airlines ranking last year. Virgin America still leads the pack followed by Continental and Alaska Airlines.
I love a third-party verified list, but with green airline itself nudging to the top of the most oxymoronic phrase list I decided to take a look at how Greenopia actually measures the viriditās of our domestic airlines.
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