Summary

The writer talks about how we can save our planet. He thinks it is not easy to find the difference between the importance of our problem and the weediness of our response so far. Until 10,000 years ago, the climate would change unusually. Therefore it was very hard to develop agriculture and crops could not be harvested in that climate. Human beings were forced to the meat. After that the climate stay stable and humans could stay down too. In that period of climatic stability farming and cities were developed.
Because of the pollution of the atmosphere, there is a coming up danger. This will make the climate fluctuate violently again.
The writer believes that the individual efforts for saving the planet are not enough and not even the beginning of the solution. He thinks government should put laws in order to force us to shift towards cleaner behavior.
He mentioned example to prove his believes. Green campaigners have encouraged the Mayor of London to force SUV drivers for a punishment. Therefore many of them shift to greener cars.
The writer mentioned why we should force people to do things which protect our planet. Since our personal freedom ends where you actively hurt the freedom of another person, we should do many tings to stop harming each other by pollution the planet.
At the end the writer mentioned that we do not need the fake-libertarian excuses, we need hard government legislation.


I agree with the writer in some points, the governments should put laws which force people to protect our planet. But this is not enough, because we need the people cooperation. We can not deny the fact that many people break many laws. Therefore, we need more efforts to make people realize the real problem and can easily cooperate with the governments.

Description of the Cool City

Our earth is the green and full of life planet which you can see it from the space. Today the industrial revolution that is happing changes the face of our earth. The greediness and love of collect the money always guide the people to kill themselves and destroy their earth the place where they can live. We are really faces different problems threatening our live in this planet. Carbon dioxide emission, increase of energy consumption, eat more manufacturing food and using vehicles all these things pollution our environment.

However, we must find solutions immediately for this problem. Different establishments and cities put different solutions to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions. One of these solutions is the SDCJ project called the Cool City is very big project that protect our environment from pollution. This is the ideal model city, it’s divided into business and public zone, residential zone, culture and sports zone and resort zone these are the main four zones. This city is depends on the Solar powered plant farms is distribute around the city this plant supply the area by a clean energy. In addition it’s using a friendly transportation ways for example, solar ships, and light rail transit and hybrid cars. The cool city use 15 varieties of techniques for instant, hydrogen system, cool water and ice storage tanks, mirror duct and trees. All these techniques help to reduce the heat and generate cool air inside buildings.

Finally these visions and projects are play as a green spots will distribute around the world and work as a filter that will help to reduce the pollution and clean our earth.

Description of the Cool City

Our earth is the green and full of life planet which you can see it from the space. Today the industrial revolution that is happing changes the face of our earth. The greediness and love of collect the money always guide the people to kill themselves and destroy their earth the place where they can live. We are really faces different problems threatening our live in this planet. Carbon dioxide emission, increase of energy consumption, eat more manufacturing food and using vehicles all these things pollution our environment.

However, we must find solutions immediately for this problem. Different establishments and cities put different solutions to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions. One of these solutions is the SDCJ project called the Cool City is very big project that protect our environment from pollution. This is the ideal model city, it’s divided into business and public zone, residential zone, culture and sports zone and resort zone these are the main four zones. This city is depends on the Solar powered plant farms is distribute around the city this plant supply the area by a clean energy. In addition it’s using a friendly transportation ways for example, solar ships, and light rail transit and hybrid cars. The cool city use 15 varieties of techniques for instant, hydrogen system, cool water and ice storage tanks, mirror duct and trees. All these techniques help to reduce the heat and generate cool air inside buildings.

Finally these visions and projects are play as a green spots will distribute around the world and work as a filter that will help to reduce the pollution and clean our earth.

TIDC projects and planning

· Which development do you think is the coolest (most interesting)?
Saadiyat Island

· Write two blog posts about the planned development by TDIC. How green do you think these developments will be?

Launch sustainable projects that ensure the balance between construction and the environment that mean build new citied that care about our ecosystem and save our environment from pollution.

· What is your opinion of this development?

My opinion if they impalement these big projects and we saw it on real life will be amazing and that will put Abu Dhabi as the one of countries care about protect our earth from pollution and that will be a big step for UAE globally.

· Will they make Abu Dhabi a “cool city” or do you think they will cause problems?

To make Abu Dhabi a cool city build these kind of cities are not enough to make Abu Dhabi as a cool city we need to learn people more about the real problem and how we can reduce it.

One Planet Living and Masdar City

Visit http://www.oneplanetliving.org/

If everyone lived like an average North American we would need five planets.

If everyone lived like an average European we would need three planets.

If everyone lived like an average Emirati we would need _11__ planets.

Our global footprint grew by __150___ between 1961 and 2003. It is now --25--% above the planet's biological capacity to support life on earth.

The WWF has developed an initiative called One Planet Living. It has ten guiding principles.

Masdar is going to be developed using these principles.

-Explain the ten guiding principles using your own words.


The ten guiding principles

1. Zero Carbon: reduce the amount of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere by using new methods.

2. Zero waste: reduce waste by developing design that help people to re-use or recycling waste cleanly, and change the concept of waste to make it a part of the useful resource.


3. Sustainable Transport: is the way that reduces CO2 emissions by using of public transportation altern to private vehicles and airplanes.

4. Local and Sustainable Materials: recycle materials in constriction to reduce transport emissions and investment in local natural resources.


5. Local and Sustainable Food: change the form of food supply to positive point that reduce of pollution of manufacturing and transport that will keep our environment clean.

6. Sustainable Water: recycling the sewage water, re-use it and discover new methods that minimize the water consumption.


7. Natural Habitats and wildlife: protect and create new protection areas for wildlife to increase it that will help to increase the green areas in our plant that will ensure new habitats for wild animals and trees.



8. Culture and Heritage: encourage and protect the local cultural heritage to teach our children how people live in the past with simple ways without using equipment that polluted our environment.


9. Health and Happiness: increase the life and health quality.



10. Fair Trade: OPL community must effect on other communities both locally and globally.




-Which principles do you think will be difficult for Masdar City to maintain?

Local and Sustainable Food and Local and Sustainable Materials.


-What are the three goals of the One Planet Living programme?

Build a world-wide network of OPL Communities and others exemplary projects to demonstrate OPL in action.

Establish OPL Centers in each OPL community as a focus for education.

Promote the imperative for OPL and its guiding principles to catalyze change with government, business and individuals.


-Masdar is one of the Emerging One Planet communities, where are the others?

-Where are the Officially Endorsed One Planet Communities?


American Cool Cities

Visit the Cool Cities website and scan "Cool Cities: Solving Global Warming One City At A Time" Find 10 ways in which some US cities are saving money, energy or resources.

Charlotte North Carolina
The government has changed the fuel of cars to a hybrid gas.

Washington DC
Has changed their buses to natural gas which is less than the diesel fuel to improve air pollution and cut global warming pollution.

St Paul Minnesota
Providing electricity by using a renewable resource as its primary fuel.

Houston – Texas
The government has started to reduce emissions by using hybrid vehicles. By the year 2010 they will have no petrol cars. A hybrid vehicle is produce about 43 tones of carbon less than the average of other cars.

Seattle
They have replaced old vehicles with a “clean and Green fleet and have sett strict rules about CO2 emission. They have already reduced green house gases by 60 percent.

Fort Collins
Fort Collins uses renewable energy wind to reduce global warming and has reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 472,000 tons.

Waverly Lowa
Waverly Lowa municipality has used wind energy to reduce the emission of CO2 in the city. This method that helps provides local economic development.


Twin falls-Idaho
They reduce energy costs and cut pollution by increasing the energy efficiency of its 11 schools. This include the lightning, ventilation and air condition systems by this the city saved $3.5 million in energy savings.


Living in Masdar City
Read this article
Masder's Green Dream is not for all from The National

Would you like to live in Masdar City?

YES

Write a post explaining why or why not.

Yes because Masdar is like an ideal of clean live healthy and I feel when I will live there I will be one of the people who wants to protect and save thier earth from pollution.

Cool Cities

Charlotte North Carolina

The government has changed the fuel of cars to a hybrid gas.


Washington DC

Has changed their buses to natural gas which is less than the diesel fuel to improve air pollution and cut global warming pollution.

St Paul Minnesota

Providing electricity by using a renewable resource as its primary fuel.

Houston – Texas

The government has started to reduce emissions by using hybrid vehicles. By the year 2010 they will have no petrol cars. A hybrid vehicles are produce about 43 tones of carbon less than the average of other cars.


Seattle

They have replaced old vehicles with a “ clean and Green fleet and have sett strict rules about CO2 emission. They have already reduced green house gases by 60 percent.

Fort Collins

Fort Collins uses renewable energy wind to reduce global warming and has reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 472,000 tons.

Waverly Lowa

Waverly Lowa municipality has used wind energy to reduce the emission of CO2 in the city. This method who helps provide local economic development.

My Profile

My name is abdul Aziz Mohamed. Ilive Abu Dhabi one of the most prosperias capital in the Gulf are. I was born in 1978. I am married and have one child. My family consists parents and five beothers and two sisters. I work as a food inspector at Food Control Authority of AbuDahbi. Inaddition, my new position at work is team leader of group in food catering section. About my intersts. ilike reading,writing poems,swimming and travilling.