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Airports get ready for Earth Hour -March 28

03/20/09

Some airports are making plans to participate in Earth Hour – one hour on March 28th when perhaps a billion people around the world will be turning off lights and unplugging whatever they can. Toronto Pearson International Airport got involved last year and will do so again this year. In fact, an airport spokesperson told […]

Tulip field at Amsterdam Airport

03/13/09

Heading to or through Amsterdam Schiphol Airport during the first two weeks of April? You could happily spend your whole vacation at the airport, what with the massage spa, the snooze chairs, the casino, the kids play area, the museum, and all the great shops, restaurants and artwork. They even have a YOTEL there, where […]

Heathrow Airport: Emma Thompson says no go on 3rd runway

01/13/09

In an effort to thwart plans for a 3rd runway at London’s Heathrow Airport, Greenpeace, other environmental activists and a few celebrities, including Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson, have bought up a piece of land “slap bang” in the middle of the proposed project site. Opponents of the 3rd runway project are worried about greenhouse gases, […]

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Airports and airlines celebrate America Recycles Day

11/14/08

Tomorrow, Saturday Nov 15th, is America Recycles Day – a day dedicated to encouraging Americans to recycle and purchase recycled products. The folks at Kansas City International Airport (MCI) are already celebrating. Today they’ll be handing out discount coupons from The Paradies Shops and HMS Host airport concessions to reward customers “caught” recycling in the […]

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Some airports go green; others go white as snow

10/21/08

Remember putting snowballs in the freezer during the winter so you’d have them to play with once summer rolled around? This story about snow-recycling from the Telegraph is sort of like that: A new airport being built in Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido will collect winter snow, keep it insulated and on ice, and then […]

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More airport side trips: Tampa and Atlanta

09/21/08

Early this month I wrote a column for USATODAY.com about cheap, easy side-trips you can take from many U.S. airports. Since then, I’ve gotten email and tips on several more. Here are two of them: Tampa resident Robert Danielson wrote with this tip: “Adjacent to the south runway at Tampa International Airport (TPA) is “International […]

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport goes green with goats

08/29/08

This morning, (Friday, August 29), the folks at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) conducted a little test. In an effort to rid the airport’s property of invasive plants, airport officials invited a herd of goats (and three sheep) over for lunch. No need to cook up anything special: the herd was happy eat its way through […]

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Tree-mendous airports

04/08/08

An airport is like the front door to a city. So a city that wants to impress visitors could start by fixing up its airport. At California’s Fresno Yosemite International Airport, that sprucing up will take the form of fake sequoia trees. According to a story from the Fresno Bee, a grove of six fake […]

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