Cool Cities

This movie "Toward Sustainable Urban Development and Architecture Cool City" has an interesting subject about technology and the rise of CO2 in the air. CO2 has become major problems facing all countries, so they suggest creating a new cool city in the Gulf. This city looks great, and has many facilities. In this city they will try to reduce the percentage of CO2 to 60%. SDCJ (Sustainable Development Consortium of Japan) Japanese company which going to start the project in Middle East.
Masdar are planning to build cool cities in UAE. They are focus on reducing emission from these mean sources of CO2 emission, which are produced from building and transportation by 90%. This city is 1km in radius which contains business, residential, commercial, culture and resort zone. In addition to the solar powered plants farms. They are planning to use environmental technology such as water, wind and surrounding the city. The transportation will be focuses on light rail, solar ships, water transportation and hybrid cars. Echo towers would reduce the 50% and residents would reduce 30% of CO2 in the air.
Bradley Hope of National Newspaper mentions the average temperature rise up to 50C and the humidity 97%, because of that building cool city in the UAE it’s very helpful to reduce carbon emission. In addition, the new Abu Dhabi Central Market will have an operable roof that responds to the temperature (Bradley, 2008). Still, developers need to be wary of too many technological solutions, which can reduce the energy efficiency of a building, said Alan Paterson, Aldar’s head of planning. Air conditioning is inherently a wasteful way to cool a space, but cool water misters are not particularly efficient either, especially in a desert environment where water is scarce. (Bradley, 2008).
To conclude, I think building a cool city is a good solution to reduce the pollution in the earth. This city will cost a lot to build it and it consumes time and materials. I hope this city will be build soon to save our earth.

Bibliography:
Cool City, Sustainable Development Consortium of Japan.07 May 2009.
Hope, Bradley. "Cool ideas to beat the heat - The National Newspaper." Home Page - The National Newspaper. 05 May 2008. Abu Dhabi Media Company. 07 May 2009 .

Carbon Footprint

The Definition of a carbon footprint is the total amount of green house gas produced to directly and indirectly support human activates like burning fossil fuels, which expressed in equivalent of tons of CO2 pumped into our atmosphere.

I started calculating in a site to measure my carbon footprint and how much am i producing CO2 that impacts the environment. Most of the questions were about four mean things food, travel, home and stuff.

I started to do survey with my classmates an average for us was about 2.79 (Footprint Calculator). Which means that we are using our planet like it is bigger than 2.79, which is equivalent about 32.8 tons of CO2 per person (Heroes of UAE). Saudi Arabia has about 10.2 tons, which is one third less than UAE (Breathingearth.net). UAE is one of the highest in world, maybe because it is one of the richest countries.

Reducing green house gases, saving energy, renewable energy sources, recycling, Energy Star light bulbs, carpooling, public transportation, carbon offsets, buying local, green economy; so many buzz words, so little time to make that change for our future. Work diligently at keeping my footprint to a minimum. Changing one’s habits are not easy, but I hope I’ve led you to at least think about the future, and what would happen if we don’t take action now.

Bibliography:
Footprint Calculator. WWF. 13 Apr. 2009 .
Heroes of UAE. WWF. 13 Apr. 2009 .
Breathing Earth. David Bleja. 16 Apr. 2009 .