Video: Flying high with the US Navy’s Great Green Fleet

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Julia Whitty’s cover story for the March/April edition of Mother Jones magazine, My heart-stopping ride aboard the Great Green Fleet, already features on ReneEconomy‘s Best of the Web list, but for the audio-visual experience, below is the accompanying video footage (via Climate Desk) of the journalist making a hair-raising landing on the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier as a passenger aboard a 50-50 biofuel-powered jet. Whitty also goes into detail about the Navy’s green makeover – and its forward-thinking on climate-change – and some of the hurdles America’s ‘Beltway’ has thrown up along the way. Chocks away!

Sophie Vorrath

Sophie is editor of One Step Off The Grid and deputy editor of its sister site, Renew Economy. She is the co-host of the Solar Insiders Podcast. Sophie has been writing about clean energy for more than a decade.

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