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

Sudhir sudhir at cai-asia.org
Fri Aug 19 21:24:17 JST 2011


I understood the question as  - do you know of good recommendations for
reducing emissions from Airports?
There can never be something called as Green airport as we don't have green
roads ( excluding footpath and bikeways)

SG


On 19 August 2011 20:18, Pardo <carlosfpardo at gmail.com> wrote:

> You should start your search of green airports by finding airports that
> have closed.
> ought
> Pardo
>
> Typed on keyboard projected onto a glass surface. Please excuse typos.
>
> 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:
> >
> >> 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.
> >>>
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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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> >>>> Executive Director
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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
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
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