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Friday, February 20th, 2015

Nothing but Green Skies If You Fly These Airlines

Author:     Taylor Hill
Source:     takepart
Publication Date:     February 17, 2015
 Link: Nothing but Green Skies If You Fly These Airlines
Stephan:   Not many people talk about it but unless airlines can change their carbon footprint commercial flight becomes very problematic on the existing scale. Some new kind of non-carbon propulsion is obviously the goal. But biofuel is a mid-point and should be encouraged. This is a good trend. Print out the list below and try to book on the airlines with the highest scores. This is a place to take the compassionate life-affirming option.
Credit: en.wikipedia.org

Credit: en.wikipedia.org

What’s in a jet fuel? If you’re flying on one of these environmentally friendly airliners, vegetable oil, desert plants, or some other biofuel concoction could be powering the engines.

According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, more than 40 commercial airlines have flown around 600,000 miles powered at least partly by biofuels. That may not make much of a dent yet in the 640 million metric tons of carbon pollution emitted by the airline industry annually, but it’s a start.

Now, for the first time, NRDC has ranked the commercial airline companies working the hardest to reduce their carbon footprint with the use of sustainable biofuels. (emphasis added)

The early leaders include Air France/KLM, British Airways, United Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, Cathay Pacific, and Alaska Airlines.

“It’s great to see certain airlines becoming leaders in the use of sustainable biofuels,” said Debbie Hammel, senior resource specialist with NRDC and author of the scorecard. “As the world rises to the challenge of curbing climate change and […]

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