Hybrid tobacco from SkyNRG will make sustainable aviation biofuel, not cigarettes
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, August 6, 2014 /3BL Media/ - Boeing [NYSE:BA], South African Airways (SAA) and SkyNRG announced today they are collaborating to make sustainable aviation biofuel from a new type of tobacco plant. This initiative broadens cooperation between Boeing and SAA to develop renewable jet fuel in ways that support South Africa's goals for public health as well as economic and rural development.
Boeing Environmental Strategy Director Julie Felgar and Masdar Institute Bioenergy Research Director Alejandro Rios G. to discuss breakthrough research in sustainable biofuel for commercial aviation
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Julie Felgar, Managing Director of Environmental Strategy and Integration, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, and Alejandro Rios G., Director of the Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SBRC) at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi will lead a dual keynote session at South by Southwest Eco (SXSW Eco), a conference connecting the urgency of global sustainability challenges with the opportunity for breakthrough s
Have a need for speed? Boeing is partnering with the Lotus F1 Team to challenge physics and put speed to the test.
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This is the latest video in Boeing's Innovation video series. See all of the videos at buildsomethingbetter.com.
Boeing recently launched the latest video - High Speed Test Lab - in its Innovation series highlighting the company's ingenuity and passion for developing innovations that help solve difficult, real-world problems.
North Charleston, SC, July 14, 2014 /3BL Media/ -- Boeing (NYSE: BA) received approval on Friday from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on a comprehensive wetlands mitigation plan to preserve approximately 4,000 acres of land, including more than 2,000 acres of wetlands. The land is on three separate tracts near the Francis Marion National Forest in the South Carolina Lowcountry.
Imagine flying in America's first space taxi, seeing Earth fade into the distance. Boeing is revolutionizing space travel and is one step closer to making it possible for you to experience previously what only astronauts could: space travel.
Boeing recently launched the latest video in its series highlighting the company's ingenuity and passion for developing innovations that help solve difficult, real-world problems.
Boeing comments on newly approved aviation biofuel, farnesane
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ASTM International, the fuel standards organization, today announced that farnesane, which is made from plant sugars, can be blended up to 10 percent with conventional petroleum jet fuel (Jet A/A1).
Boeing and NRG Energy team up on a solar project to build a better planet
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Boeing and NRG Energy brought their first solar power plant online in Brawley, Calif., 10 months after the project began.
Six megawatts of power – generated via 25,000 solar panels arranged on 3,100 solar arrays spread across 37 acres -- started feeding the southern California power grid with clean, renewable energy. Engineers supporting the project say the new solar farm, known as “Community,” can power 2,200 average homes at full capacity.
CHICAGO, June 5, 2014 /3BL Media/ – Boeing [NYSE: BA] today released its annual Environment Report highlighting the company’s commitments and accomplishments in improving environmental performance for its products and operations. The report also features Boeing’s continuing progress in sustainable growth and environmental conservation efforts in the communities where its employees live and work worldwide.
Watch how Boeing helped NOAA restore salmon habitat near Seattle
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Just south of Seattle, Boeing has created the largest habitat restoration in the Lower Duwamish Waterway, transforming nearly one mile of former industrial waterfront into a wetland resource that improves Puget Sound salmon runs. This habitat work was coordinated with the Natural Resource Trustees, a group made up of local tribes and state and federal agencies, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
