[sustran] Re: Examples of "green" airports?

[Pascal van den Noort]

Indeed, we are not here to judge, we are here to analyse, encourage and improve.

Pascal J.W. van den Noort
Executive Director 
Velo Mondial, A Micro Multi-National

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On 19 aug 2011, at 12:53, Dharm Guruswamy wrote:

> I agree. I think all airports should take common sense steps to ensure
> sustainability. These include:
> 
> 1) Offering recycling 
> 2) Encouraging the use of public transportation
> 3) Requiring rental car companies and hotels to share shuttle buses
> instead of running individual shuttle operations
> 4) Trying to make their terminals and other facilities as "green" as
> possible
> 
> Some have pointed out (correctly) that the planes that fly into airports
> are polluting and I agree. In addition, aviation forecasts call for
> growth, but then again do forecasts for the number of automobiles and
> heavy vehicles (e.g. trucks, buses). Please remember, much of the
> developing world suffers from exceedingly poor air transportation. For
> example, my wife missed her connection in Bangkok on the way to Sri
> Lanka late at night. She was rerouted the next day via Kuala Lumpur and
> Singapore because the next flight that day didn't leave until the
> evening. Even though three airlines fly the route two of them (Cathay
> Pacific and Thai) only fly four times a week and their flights leave
> within an hour and a half of each other. Sri Lankan flies the route at
> least daily but when they fly more than daily both flights leave in the
> evening. This is service linking Colombo the only international airport
> in a country of 20 million with Bangkok a major metropolitan area. Even
> in Brazil there are over 1,000 flights a week between Rio and Sao Paolo
> and in India there are over 800 flights a week between Delhi and Mumbai.
> My only point is folks don't ding the poor people of the developing
> world if all they want is to have the air service others in the
> developing world already enjoy. 
> 
> --
> Dharm
> 
> 
> On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:58 +0200, "Pascal van den Noort"
> <operations at velomondial.net> wrote:
>> Yes, as an airport enterprise building they do their best!And so they
>> should. 
>> 
>> However the number of plains they attract obviously polute the whole
>> environment. 
>> 
>> Therefore they can never be Green; at best they will be sustainable. 
>> 
>> Which is a very laudable goal.
>> 
>> 
>> Pascal J.W. van den Noort
>> Executive Director 
>> Velo Mondial, A Micro Multi-National
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>> On 19 aug 2011, at 11:49, krishna gopal wrote:
>> 
>>> http://www.newdelhiairport.in/environment.aspx
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Pascal van den Noort <operations at velomondial.net> wrote:
>>> Schiphol suggests that they want to become be green. However, that will never be possible; for no airport for that matter. They can become sustainable, because that comprises economic and socialo elements as well as environmental. Just green is a limited option that no enterprise should pursue. There should be a nice balance between economic, social and envronmental objectives.
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>>> On 19 aug 2011, at 06:25, GDRC|Hari Srinivas wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Dear folks,
>>>> 
>>>> Does anyone have good recommendations of airports that have gone green?
>>>> Any other info on the topic will also be welcome ...
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks a lot,
>>>> Hari
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Dr. Hari Srinivas,
>>>> Coordinator, Global Development Research Center
>>>> Kobe, Japan
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> -- 
>  Dharm Guruswamy
>  dguruswamy at hotmail.com
> 
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