Saturday, May 15, 2010
Introduction
Abu Dhabi is a developing city which has a wise vision for the future. Abu Dhabi has signed the Kyoto Protocol to be one of the countries which are fighting against global warming and to reduce the annual CO2 “carbon footprint” which is released every year in the atmosphere. So, Abu Dhabi government but some new projects that will help the city develop without destroying the planet or make the problem bigger. One of the projects is Masdar City which has no carbon at all. I also will mention some other projects like Saadyat Island. I also will write about the movie “An Inconvenient Truth” which discuses the global warming problem.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Johann Hari: we will save the planet only if we are forced to.
Johann Hari: we will save the planet only if we are forced to.
Johann said that we all must take this problem seriously and we must work to solve it. Because of fluctuate violently that started 10000 years ago it made it impossible to develop agriculture and growing crops due to a yearly climate change. But after that things have change to the better, and the weather settled and so did the humans. The problem that the humans are doing to the world from the emission of gases to the atmosphere ma lead to another type if living which is like the old days where we used spears and sticks. We must try to convene people about the green option because it is not only harming the person him self but also harming people who are living and sharing the planet with him. Even though libertarian have right to have to fire nuclear weapons but this things must be stopped and the fake excuses.
Opinion on this topic is that the writer has a point which I agree on. He says that ether we should stop polluting the earth or we will all live a bad life then like the life before 10,000 years ago.
Johann said that we all must take this problem seriously and we must work to solve it. Because of fluctuate violently that started 10000 years ago it made it impossible to develop agriculture and growing crops due to a yearly climate change. But after that things have change to the better, and the weather settled and so did the humans. The problem that the humans are doing to the world from the emission of gases to the atmosphere ma lead to another type if living which is like the old days where we used spears and sticks. We must try to convene people about the green option because it is not only harming the person him self but also harming people who are living and sharing the planet with him. Even though libertarian have right to have to fire nuclear weapons but this things must be stopped and the fake excuses.
Opinion on this topic is that the writer has a point which I agree on. He says that ether we should stop polluting the earth or we will all live a bad life then like the life before 10,000 years ago.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
cool cities (SDCJ)
Whit all development we have there is a lot of problems came with the development like traffic, pollution and global warming. Towards Sustainable Urban Development and Architecture create a city which will reduce the carbon released in the ear by 90% and I will write about it in this essay.
If we complete our live with the same lifestyle we will need another earth to live in the next few years. From statistic 90% of CO2 is released from buildings and transport. SDCJ make a new cool city design for the gulf region which have 1 km as radius and the city contains from 6 regions which are business/ public centre and around it there is Residential zone, culture and sport zone, resort zone, solar power plant farms will be around the city, and finally is the Jtropan forest to prevent sand shifting. The design was but to be easy transporting by walk. All the transportation will be by Water Transportation System, Hybrid car parking areas, Monorail station and Light rail transit station. These four ways will be in all the regions in this city. The building will use the sun for lighting and this is on way from 14 else ways which will reduce the amount of CO2 which is released in the air by 50%.
In conclusion, until now no one built this city because it coasts a lot, but I think it will be build in the future. This kind of cities will help us fighting agents global warming.
If we complete our live with the same lifestyle we will need another earth to live in the next few years. From statistic 90% of CO2 is released from buildings and transport. SDCJ make a new cool city design for the gulf region which have 1 km as radius and the city contains from 6 regions which are business/ public centre and around it there is Residential zone, culture and sport zone, resort zone, solar power plant farms will be around the city, and finally is the Jtropan forest to prevent sand shifting. The design was but to be easy transporting by walk. All the transportation will be by Water Transportation System, Hybrid car parking areas, Monorail station and Light rail transit station. These four ways will be in all the regions in this city. The building will use the sun for lighting and this is on way from 14 else ways which will reduce the amount of CO2 which is released in the air by 50%.
In conclusion, until now no one built this city because it coasts a lot, but I think it will be build in the future. This kind of cities will help us fighting agents global warming.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Masdar city
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.
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.
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
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