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Celebrities Fight Heathrow Expansion with Organic Veggies (Video)
Image credit: Airplot Celebrities Dig Deep to Stop Runway Expansion Britain is well known for its slightly eccentric protest methods. It's where the World Naked Bike Ride first got started, and it's where protesters have tried to stop airport expansion
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What the Heck is Radiative Forcing & Why Should My Aviation Carbon Offset Include It?
You want to be a better eco-citizen, minimize your air travel, and want to buy a carbon offset for those times when you do have to fly. But before you hit that calculate my emissions button you notice a small check
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Do Green Jobs Pay? Not If You Are A Pilot of a Greener Plane
I am a big fan of propeller planes; the Bombardier Q400 sips fuel and flies low enough that its exhaust is not as harmful as the jets flying twice as high. In an earlier post (Perhaps Flying Turboprop isn't Dying) I noted that it is far more
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Leaving the Planet Costs the Earth
We have accused Virgin Galactic's new spaceport of the Sin of LEED Green Buildings That Are Laughably Inappropriate, asking "what is the point of being ""both sustainable and sensitive to its surroundings" when your purpose for being is
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After the Electric Car, the Electric Plane? Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk is Thinking About It
Not Just Any Old Electric Plane... A Supersonic Electric Plane Techcrunch has an intriguing interview with Tesla CEO Elon Musk. He briefly talks about an interest in nuclear fusion, but also speculates about a supersonic electric plane. The video of the
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Virgin America Becomes First US Airline to Report Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions
California-based Virgin America (which is an entirely separate company than Virgin Atlantic, by the way...) has announced that it has become the first US airline to join The Climate Registry, committing to report all of its
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Breathtaking! First Crossing of the Alps by a Solar Plane
A Big First for a Solar Aircraft! We recently wrote about the Sunseeker II solar plane (see that post for more details). Well, they did it! "99 years after the first crossing of the Alps in an airplane by Geo Chávez flying a Blériot XI, Eric Raymond
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Air India's Fuel Efficiency Efforts Save $9 Million in Six Months
We're always talking up the benefits of energy efficiency and here's a concrete example of it: Air India has been operating under a new program of fuel efficiency measures for the past six months, with the goal of
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Recession Not Slowing Aviation Biofuel Plans at Boeing & Airbus
The recession may be slowing down some renewable energy projects, but Boeing and Airbus have indicated that they will be continuing to push forward on developing planes that can run on biofuels, and working with biofuel producers
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Flying car may soon be in your rich neighbor's garage
The recession is hurting us all, but if you have an extra $194,000 laying around, maybe stuffed under the mattress, you can afford a new flying car that's scheduled to drive, take off and land in 2010.Boston-based Terrafugia calls their
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Electric Aircraft Symposium: April 24th in San Carlos, California
Let's Hope This Thing Takes Off! The 2009 CAFE Foundation Electric Aircraft Symposium will take place on April 24th, 2009, at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, California. Topics will include "the latest in motors, PV technology, controllers,
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More Aviation Protests: How Easy it is to Occupy an Airport (Video)
Image credit: Plane Stupid Runway Protesters Surrender to Avert Emergency Ryanair's legal action against previous runway protesters doesn't seem to have discouraged the anti-aviation pressure group Plane Stupid, which yesterday occupied the runway at
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Sunseeker II Solar Airplane to Fly Over Europe this Spring
Flying so Quietly, Birds Sometimes Try to Land on It We've just got a tip form Eric Lentz Gauthier of Solar Flight telling us that the Sunseeker II, a solar airplane, will be flying over Europe this Spring: "The exact dates and destinations that the
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7 Cool Innovations in Fuel Efficient Aviation
New Innovations May Help Reduce Aviation Emissions - Eventually I've lost count of the number of times that TreeHugger has written about the aviation industry's vulnerability to high oil prices or the
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Should Personal Flight Rationing Be Showing Up on the Green Radar? (UPDATED)
Recently in the UK, Lord Turner, chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, said that in the future people would be given personal flight limits in order to cut emissions from aviation. Speaking in the context of short-haul
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Japan Airlines Finds Biofuel More Efficient Than Petro-Fuel in Test Flight
Earlier in the month Continental Airlines completed a test flight using biofuels, and now a few weeks later Japan Airlines has joined a (slowly) expanding number of airlines
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US Coal-to-Liquid Fuel Facility Plan Dropped by Air Force
Say what you like about actions of the US military,but sometimes they make a genuinely green decision. Like this one: The US
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Join the Paper Airplane Protest
There's anti-airplane protest in the air and on the ground here in London. The vote by the government for a third runway at Heathrow Airport, the world's biggest airport, has now been passed and the great and the
