Masdar city is a great idea. It will be new life style which will stop destroying the planet. All people all over the world are waiting this project to see the way that Abu Dhabi will participate protecting the planet and be example for the cities in the future.
Although it is a great idea but I thing is not for me because I don’t like this life style. It will be forbidden for any one to drive 4x4 cars but I like it. Another thing that I like to live in wide please not in small flat, the most important thing is I don’t like to walk at all. I also don’t like to use public transport. Yet another thing that I am a smoker and I like to smoke anywhere and I afraid to face the real I cant smoke in there. Finally it is far away from Abu Dhabi and I can’t leave my home town.
In conclusion, this city is a very big movement to help the planet but I am not that kind of people that can leave there home town.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
one planet living
· Zero carbon:
o The climate is changing because of human’s activity which raise the level of CO2. Zero carbon means no carbon produce.
· Zero waste:
o We must protect our valuable resources by having no discarded products.
· Sustainable transport:
o Transporting either by plane or cars affects the climate a lot and causes other problems like noise pollution. So we need cleaner way to transport.
· Local and sustainable materials:
o The way we use our materials in construction or manufacturing make the problem bigger.
· Local sustainable food:
o Producing industrial agriculture and transfer it make a lot of pollution.
· Sustainable water:
o Water is not available nowadays for everyone, that because of pollution.
· Natural habitats and wildlife:
o We are losing different kinds of animals and plants and all that because of development and overuse of natural resources.
· Culture and heritage:
o In many countries the local heritage is being lost, because of globalisation and the results of that is loss the local identity.
· Equity and fair trade:
o Many people in developing countries can’t have their basic needs while same people in industrialised countries live in poverty.
· Health and happiness:
· Wealth and greater health are rising and that make us think about contentment.
o The climate is changing because of human’s activity which raise the level of CO2. Zero carbon means no carbon produce.
· Zero waste:
o We must protect our valuable resources by having no discarded products.
· Sustainable transport:
o Transporting either by plane or cars affects the climate a lot and causes other problems like noise pollution. So we need cleaner way to transport.
· Local and sustainable materials:
o The way we use our materials in construction or manufacturing make the problem bigger.
· Local sustainable food:
o Producing industrial agriculture and transfer it make a lot of pollution.
· Sustainable water:
o Water is not available nowadays for everyone, that because of pollution.
· Natural habitats and wildlife:
o We are losing different kinds of animals and plants and all that because of development and overuse of natural resources.
· Culture and heritage:
o In many countries the local heritage is being lost, because of globalisation and the results of that is loss the local identity.
· Equity and fair trade:
o Many people in developing countries can’t have their basic needs while same people in industrialised countries live in poverty.
· Health and happiness:
· Wealth and greater health are rising and that make us think about contentment.
cool cities in the USA
nine ways in which cities in the USA are reducing their carbon emissions:
1. Iowa: First municipal wind turbine.
2. Klamath Falls: geothermal heating system keeps the sidewalks clear and dry.
3. Seattle: reduce its own pollution by 60% by constructing green buildings and operating alternative fuel vehicles.
4. Houston Texas: By 2010 all vehicles will become hybrid.
5. Salt Lake City: save 32000 a year on its energy cost by installing 861 light emitting diode (LED) traffic signals.
6. Washington DC: replace 414 of its pollution diesel buses with cleaner burning, compressed natural gas buses.
7. Colombia Missouri: working to produce 10% of their electricity with clean energy like wind and solar power by 2015.
8. Twin falls Idaho- School increased their efficiency of energy which caused to reduce the cost by $3.2 million.
9 ST. Paul has built a biomass fired pourer plant for heating building.
1. Iowa: First municipal wind turbine.
2. Klamath Falls: geothermal heating system keeps the sidewalks clear and dry.
3. Seattle: reduce its own pollution by 60% by constructing green buildings and operating alternative fuel vehicles.
4. Houston Texas: By 2010 all vehicles will become hybrid.
5. Salt Lake City: save 32000 a year on its energy cost by installing 861 light emitting diode (LED) traffic signals.
6. Washington DC: replace 414 of its pollution diesel buses with cleaner burning, compressed natural gas buses.
7. Colombia Missouri: working to produce 10% of their electricity with clean energy like wind and solar power by 2015.
8. Twin falls Idaho- School increased their efficiency of energy which caused to reduce the cost by $3.2 million.
9 ST. Paul has built a biomass fired pourer plant for heating building.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
My Carbon Footprint
Carbon Footprint is the amount of a carbon dioxide (CO2) released in the air which are produced by a person activities produce. My foot print is 3.39 planets, which means I need more than three planets to live on if everyone consumed the same as I do.
I’m part of this problem, for example, I like to eat meat a lot but that increase the problem; because of we don’t raise enough animals for our food here that mean we need to get it from outside. We import sheep from Australia using ships which pollute the atmosphere. Another example is that I drive a lot every day just for having fun. I didn’t know that it is destroying the planet. Finally I don’t care about recycling any thing of my garbage because I didn’t know the benefits of recycling.
Shifting to solutions, I should reduce the amount of meat I eat, it is not necessary that I eat meat every day. I should eat different kind of food to be healthy. I think that the government should do some thing to not import food from outside and that will not only help the earth it will help the economy to. Another way to reduce my carbon footprint is that I will use my car only if necessary, the government should do some thing for transporting like trains, but more buss on the road this solutions will not reduce the amount of CO2 only it also will reduce the traffic. Finally the government should put some rules to make factories recycle what they need instead of the raw materials.
In conclusion, these are some ways to reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. If we still don’t care about the earth it will be a problem for our children so that every body must do what ever he or she can do to save this green planet.
I’m part of this problem, for example, I like to eat meat a lot but that increase the problem; because of we don’t raise enough animals for our food here that mean we need to get it from outside. We import sheep from Australia using ships which pollute the atmosphere. Another example is that I drive a lot every day just for having fun. I didn’t know that it is destroying the planet. Finally I don’t care about recycling any thing of my garbage because I didn’t know the benefits of recycling.
Shifting to solutions, I should reduce the amount of meat I eat, it is not necessary that I eat meat every day. I should eat different kind of food to be healthy. I think that the government should do some thing to not import food from outside and that will not only help the earth it will help the economy to. Another way to reduce my carbon footprint is that I will use my car only if necessary, the government should do some thing for transporting like trains, but more buss on the road this solutions will not reduce the amount of CO2 only it also will reduce the traffic. Finally the government should put some rules to make factories recycle what they need instead of the raw materials.
In conclusion, these are some ways to reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. If we still don’t care about the earth it will be a problem for our children so that every body must do what ever he or she can do to save this green planet.
Why is it called “An Inconvenient Truth”?
Some people call this phenomenon “Global Warming” an inconvenient truth because it annoying them and they don’t want to believe it, or they don’t want to do any thing to stop it because that will cost them a lot to reduce the amount of CO2, so they say we cant effect the earth temperature.
What should be done in Abu Dhabi to make people more aware of the situation?
People in Abu Dhabi are like other people in any city all over the world, they don’t know the dangers of global warming. The people here need some information to help fight against global warming. To do that people must know what causes the problem and what the solutions are. We must use the media to get peoples attention. The government must help us to do that and that will make the work much easer. We can put signs on the roadside or we can put some lessons in schools, I think that will help a lot.
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