Eco Friendly & Sustainable Living
airline industry, Tag
- Climate crisis: aviation industry hears clamour for electric planes Sat, 15 Jun 19, 5:00pmShift from fossil fuels top of agenda for Paris air show, industry having lagged behind other sectors
- ‘Ryanair is the new coal’: airline enters EU’s top 10 emitters list Tue, 2 Apr 19, 4:00amIrish firm joins nine coal plants on list, with carbon emissions up nearly 50% in last five years
- Storms, cyclones and floods will only worsen as the planet warms | Letters Thu, 21 Mar 19, 5:17amCraig Bennett, CEO of Friends of the Earth, says rich countries must act to make disasters such as the cyclone that hit Mozambique less likely. Meteorologist Bernadette Woods Placky describes how Climate Matters is helping...
- Take the Airbus chief's no-deal Brexit warning seriously | Nils Pratley Fri, 25 Jan 19, 2:27amThe aviation industry is run on multinational lines. UK wing production could easily take off and land somewhere else
- New highs, old lows – things to watch out for in 2019 Wed, 2 Jan 19, 3:32amWe are trying to be positive, but there’s little likely to put a smile on your face – except for a couple of things …
- First commercial flight partly fuelled by recycled waste lands in UK Wed, 3 Oct 18, 10:39pmVirgin Atlantic flight from Orlando to Gatwick powered by blend of jet fuel and ethanol
- High streets will go on suffering until the digital economy pays more tax Sun, 8 Jul 18, 4:00pmShopkeepers are essentially correct: business rates are pre-internet and have become archaicHouse of Fraser, Mothercare, Marks & Spencer, Debenhams...
- The Guardian view on Heathrow expansion: better never than so late | Editorial Wed, 6 Jun 18, 3:07amA third runway at Heathrow airport is ultimately indefensible on environmental groundsThe decision to go ahead with the third runway at Heathrow was taken two years ago; Chris Grayling’s confirmation yesterday marked the...
- Qantas uses mustard seeds in first ever biofuel flight between Australia and US Tue, 30 Jan 18, 4:34pmBlended fuel powers 15-hour Boeing Dreamliner 787-9 flight between LA and Melbourne, reducing carbon emissions by 7%
- Electric passenger jet revolution looms as E-Fan X project takes off Thu, 28 Dec 17, 6:00pmBattery-powered air taxis and bigger hybrid planes poised to change aviation
- New airplane biofuels plan would 'destroy rainforests', warn campaigners Fri, 13 Oct 17, 4:17amPlan to accelerate production of biofuels for passenger planes would lead to clearing of rainforests to produce ‘vast’ amount of necessary crops
- Outsourcing IT poses risks in Britain and in India | Letters Wed, 31 May 17, 4:31amSue Roaf says excessive electricity use is causing power cuts in India, Nigel Boddy worries that we’re overreliant on modern technology, and Richard Gilyead wonders whether there will be resignations at British AirwaysBritish...
- The ridiculous story of airline food and why so much ends up in landfill Sat, 1 Apr 17, 6:00pmAirlines generated 5.2m tonnes of waste in 2016, most of which went to landfill or incineration – and it cost them £400m
- Australian biofuels could transform airline industry and create jobs Thu, 21 Apr 16, 1:03pmVirgin Australia and Air New Zealand looking for new partners to source biofuel, amounting to about 5% of total use
- Airbus cries foul over first electric cross-Channel flight by Frenchman Fri, 10 Jul 15, 8:34pmHugues Duval flies one-seater electric plane from Calais to UK and back hours before Didier Esteyne’s journey in Airbus E-Fan aircraft