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

[Pardo]

You should start your search of green airports by finding airports that have closed.

Pardo

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On 19/08/2011, at 6:43, Pascal van den Noort <operations at velomondial.net> wrote:

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> On 19 aug 2011, at 12:53, Dharm Guruswamy wrote:
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>> 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. 
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>> --
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>> 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. 
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>>> Therefore they can never be Green; at best they will be sustainable. 
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>>> Which is a very laudable goal.
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>>> On 19 aug 2011, at 11:49, krishna gopal wrote:
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>>>> http://www.newdelhiairport.in/environment.aspx
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>>>> 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:
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>>>>> 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
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