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.