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Fly Me To The Moon, But Not Via Heathrow Airport


This post was originally published at EcoWorldly on 24th March.
Today I have returned home having travelled via London’s infamous Heathrow Airport - known disaffectionately by many frequent flyers as Hellrow. I can fully appreciate this sentiment among travellers and can safely say that by just about any measure, Heathrow is the world’s worst airport. […]

Climate Change, Tourism and Travel – The Culprit And The Victim


Travel, particularly by air and especially to far away lands is one of the big no-no’s in environmentalism.
Or at least it is when other people are doing it. Despite air-travel being popularly profiled as a climate change evil, online travel agency Expedia says it has seen no decline in the number of people […]

Fly Green with Virgin Biofuels


 
Billionaire, entrepreneur, serial adventurer and airline owner Richard Branson is the man behind an innovation which may take the sting out of one of climate change’s biggest sins.
Next month a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 will make the world’s first biofuel powered flight between London and Amsterdam. Testing a blend of 80% conventional aviation fuel and […]