Abu Dhabi cool city?

Cool cities are the cities that trying to reduce their CO2 that’s coming from many thing like building and cars by building green buildings and forbidding cars in some places. Now the question is: "is Abu Dhabi a cool city?"

Abu Dhabi is a very development city. it got many high building and it's streets are very crowded. I think Abu Dhabi is not a cool city yet because it has one of the highest rates of CO2 in the world. Although it starting to reduce it's CO2 by building a cool city called Masdar which is zero-carbon and zero-waste city. Abu Dhabi also plaing to build many green buildings soon.

In conclusion, after all the government plans are finish, Abu Dhabi will be one of the coolest city in the world.

Cool Cities (SDJC)

The world is becoming more developed day after day and many serous problems came with it such as global warming, air and noise pollution. Also the increasing of population is making these problems harder to control. To solve these problems, cool cities (SDJC) plan has been set for the gulf.

The logo of the cool city (SDCJ) is "Towards sustainable urban development and Architecture". This project is about building a Network of cool cities that depend on natural power. The city will reduce 60% of its CO2. As known 90% of the CO2 is released from buildings and transport. By building a city with 1 km radius they will solve the transport problem because every thing will be reachable by walking. There are also monorail station, Light rail transit station, water transportation and hybrid car parking areas. All the buildings will be green buildings so the CO2 will be reduce as much as possible.

In conclusion, these cities are one of the solutions that will help solving the global warming. no one built this city because of it's high cost but as you can see building these kind of cities will help solving many problems.

Masdar City

Masdar is a city that will be build in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. It will be the first city in the world with zero-carbon and zero-waste ecology. The city will only relay on renewable energy such as solar energy. It will be build near the international airport of Abu Dhabi. Cars are not allowed in this city. part of the money that will be used in building the city is coming from Kyuto Protocal.

Some people will like to live in Masdar city and the other wont. For me I would love to live there for many reasons. First of all I want to change the place where I live now because it's full of air and noise pollution. I would like to live in environmental place where there air water and food are 100% free from pollution. I also like walking so not using a car is no problem. The final reason is that I want to change my life style so living in Masdar is a good way to start.

In conclusion, there is nothing better than living in a healthy environment. To make the world better place to live we must build more cities like Masdar and that will give the next generation a better life.

One Planet Living

The ten principles of One Planet Living

Zero Carbon: human activity produce lots of harmful gases like CO2 which cause the planet temperature to rise up.

Zero Waste: not recycling the products and packaging is a big waste and how to get ride of it is a big problem.

Sustainable Transport: traveling by car and airplane causes air pollution in the same time the engine sound and horn causes noise pollution.

Local and sustainable materials: depending on non-local materials in the manufacture increase environmental harm and reduce gains to the local economy.

Local and Sustainable Food: importing non-local agriculture product may lead to bad effects and by transporting them it cause air pollution.

Sustainable Water: re-using re-use the wasted water and not overuse the water so every one takes their shear.

Natural habits and wildlife: hunting so many animals for whatever reasons is reducing the natural resources.

Culture and Heritage: because of the development in the nations many Local cultural is being lost.

Equity and fair trade: Many countries around the world suffering from poverty because they don’t have enough food for their people and some in the

Developing world meet what they produce or sell.

Health and happiness: medical care now a days could be found now easily and with less cost or free. Also the people are happier than before because of the Rising of wealth.

USA Cool cities

Many USA of cities realized how dangers the global warming problem is and started to do something to help solving it without waiting for the government to take actions These are examples of some cool cities in the US and what have they done.

In Klamath Falls, Oregon, a geothermal district heating system keeps the sidewalks clear and dry .

Seattle - reduced its own global warming pollution by more than 60 percent by constructing green buildings and operating alternative fuel vehicles.

Washington, D.C - replaced 414 of its polluting diesel buses with cleaner burning, compressed natural gas buses.

Iowa - first municipal utility to install its own wind Turbines.

Salt Lake city, Utah - saves over $32,000 a year on its energy costs as a result of installing 861 light emitting diode (LED) traffic signals.

Houston, Texas – all vehicles will become hybrid by 2010.

Twin falls. Idaho – schools increased their energy efficiency which caused to reduce the cost by $3.5 million.

Columbia. Missouri – working to produce 10% of their electricity with clean energy like wind and solar power by 2015.St

Fort Collins, Colorado – use renewable energy such as wind and solar which is now producing 15% of the city’s electricity

Paul, Minnesota – Warm the buildings using District Energy’s energy-efficient combined heat and power (CHP) system.

Cool Cities Project

In this project I'll talk about many topics and these topics are somehow connected to each other. These are the topics in this project:

1. Critical Thinking

2. Summary of the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" and my opinion about it

3. Carbon Footprint

4. One Planet Living

5. Abu Dhabi Development

6. A Cool City: Masdar

7. Who Should Take Action?

First there is a PowerPoint about critical thinking that illustrates the meaning of critical thinking, some method to think critically and few points about why critical thinking is so important.

Second a summary of "An Inconvenient Truth", I described the movie for some on who haven't seen it after that I write my feeling about the movie.

Third, a problem solution paragraph about Carbon Footprint showing it's definition, problem and solution to reduced it.

Then a discussion about the ten principles of One Planet Living and how can we make use of it in the UAE, a video about global warming created by me and some class mates and ten points of how are some cities saving money, energy or resources.

After that my opinion about the coolest development in Abu Dhabi and some info about two of them.

Follow this is a paragraph about Masdar city showing what the aims og building it.

Finally, my view about what green rules should be passed in Abu Dhabi to make it a cool city and an interview with class mate about it.

My carbon footprint

Have u ever heard about carbon footprint? Carbon footprint is a measure of the impact of your activities that produce greenhouse gases on the planet. The size of your carbon footprint depends on how much do u produce of greenhouse gases. Now I will talk about the problem and solution of the carbon footprint.

The first important problem is that I use the electricity a lot every day, I watch TV, use my laptop, playing video games and many other ways, most of our electricity are generated by burning fuels and that release carbon dioxide which make the earth hotter. The second problem is that my family got 7 cars and also I use my car a lot even if it was a short distance and Cars release large amount of CO2.the final problem is that I smoke a lot. Maybe you think it's a small amount of CO2 but its not.

The first solution is to reduce the amount of electricity every day. I can go the sea with my friend instead of watching TV or playing video games. The second solution is to use one car for the family instead of 7 and when I go out with my friend we can go with one car. The final solution is to reduce my smoking or to quit it because it's bad for health and bordure CO2.

To sum up, don't look at the other carbon footprint and say "oh mine is much smaller then it's ok" and remember the bigger your footprint is the bigger the damage you do the earth.