The Fight to Green the Eco-Unfriendly Skies - UR

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The Fight to Green the Eco-Unfriendly Skies - UR

August 23, 2007 Issue

Hundreds of people have gathered in a field outside London's Heathrow Airport over the past week to protest a proposed expansion of the busy international hub and to call attention to air travel's ecologically harmful effects. While the auto industry tends to garner much of the media's attention when it comes to calling out climate-change culprits, the protests at Heathrow reveal a growing effort to challenge the airline industry to minimize its carbon footprint.

http://www.utne.com/webwatch/2007_313/news/12756-1.html

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