Archive for the ‘Aviation Climate Change’ Category
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
With the re-opening of Terminal 2 at SFO in 2010, the airport will add 14 gates with hopes to continue growing traffic. To head off environmental concerns with this increase in traffic, the airport is already looking at some environmentally-friendly plans: mandated use of ground power for aircraft at gates, ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
San Diego airport is implementing on-airport strategies to reduce GHG emissions, according to this article. The measures include alternative fuel airport shuttles, ground power for aircraft while at a gate, and "green" maintenance where possible. This is a really interesting development along the lines of airports playing a large role ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
The Port Authority of NY NJ is building a website where passengers can pay to offset their carbon emissions. I have tons of respect for PANYNJ -- they are undertaking the ambitious goal to reduce their GHG emissions by 80% by 2050 -- however, I am not a fan of ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Virgin Atlantic is ready to test a B747 fueled by bio-fuels sometime in the next couple of months, as reported by the SF Chronicle. They haven't noted what their bio-fuel is composed of (beyond stating that it comes from sustainable sources), nor have they noted an exact date, but fact ...
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Although the Wall Street Journal prints questionable articles about the reality of climate change, they just printed an interesting article on Richard Branson.
I find Branson fascinating and am happy to see someone so high profile focusing on aviation and climate change.
Talking about his well know partnership with Boeing and GE ...
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Aviation is one step closer to being included in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme as of 2012 according to The Guardian. It has passed the member states and is moving on to the parliament and the legislation is expected to raise costs for the airlines by 13 british pounds ...
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