Tag: Air Travel
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A Vertical Garden Feeds 10,000+ Visitors to Chicago O'Hare Airport
Between the fast food outlets and news stands, Chicago O'Hare Airport features an indoor urban garden growing food for its restaurants.
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3D Printing and Printed Electronics Combined in Hybrid "Smart" Wing
A new development combining pray-on electronics with 3D printed wings could have applications way beyond aviation.
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How Airports Are Embracing Solar Power
Gatwick Airport has just installed a modest solar array, with bigger things to follow. Here's Why It Matters.
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Global Airlines Call For UN Intervention To Prevent Carbon Trade War
The growing carbon trade war precipitated by the European Union airline emission trading program really is indicative of the continued global denial about the environmental impact of our activities.
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EU Airline Emissions Trading Starts - Cost of Compliance Next To Nothing, But Airlines Freak Out
How much extra will travelers have to pay to offset their carbon pollution when their flight lands in the EU? If Delta's fare surcharge is indicative, pretty much nothing.
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EU's Highest Court Gives Green Light To Charging International Airlines For Carbon Emissions
From January 1, all airlines landing in the European Union will have to participate in the emission trading program, purchasing credits for all their carbon emissions.
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Computerized Air-Traffic Control Could Save CO2 Equivalent of Denmark's Economy
Air-traffic control systems are outdated and waste fuel, money and time. By bringing it into the computerized 21st century world, we could make a big difference in CO2 emissions as well as save people time and money.
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Inefficient Planes and Rising Oil Prices Sunk American Airlines
Old, inefficient planes, along with rising labor costs, sunk the nation's erstwhile largest airline.
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2010 Tesla Plane Crash Caused by Human Error, Says NTSB Investigators
After almost two years, we learn what caused the Palo Alto plane crash that killed Tesla Motors engineers.
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The Week in Pictures: Pulling Fresh Water from Thin Air, Personal "Multicopters," and More
Find a brilliant design to produce fresh water, a personal, electric "multicopter," and more.
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Alaska Airlines to Fly 75 Planes on 20% Cooking Oil-Based Fuel Starting Later this Week
The biofuel blend is only a small step in the right direction, but it shows that it is possible to operate airplanes without fossil fuels.
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Human "Multicopter" Hovers Off For First Electrically-Powered Flight (Video)
Is this electrically-powered, sixteen-propellered & ultra-light vehicle the next big thing in personal transportation?
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Lord Foster Unveils Plan For Reinventing Transportation in Britain
And what a grand vision it is, from one of the greatest living architects, redesigning the way transportation works
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SolarShip: A Solar-Powered, Helium-Filled Cargo Plane That Floats (Video)
Capable of flying far, carrying large loads and powered only by the sun, could this airship hybrid be the future of aviation?
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Forget Airplanes, Travel Via Cloud: Floating Zeppelin Network by Tiago Barros
In a world where everything seems to operate at hyper-speeds (often at the expense of the environment), we're well aware of the apparent benefits behind such movements as "slow food" "slow cities" and "slow design." But what about
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Virgin Atlantic To Debut New Green Aviation Fuel In 2-3 Years & It's Not A Biofuel
Considering how energy-intensive it is, aviation is really the hard nut to crack in greening transportation, but Virgin Atlantic says it has a way to do it--and, importantly, without using biofuels. As The Independent reports,
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European Union Court Adviser Backs Plan to Include Airlines In Emissions Trading Scheme
The airline industry is supposed to join the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)—already a requirement for other heavily polluting industries—in January, but the industry has been fighting the requirement.
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Ask Pablo: Will iPads in the Cockpit Really Lower Airlines' Paper Use?
Photo by comedy_nose via Flickr CC Dear Pablo: Two airlines have recently switched from paper flight records to iPads. Is this really an environmental improvement? TreeHugger recently covered news of two airlines (, followed by United Continental) that
