Masdar is going to be developed using these 10 principles.

One planet living

If everyone lived like an average North American we would need 5planets.

If everyone lived like an average European we would need 3planets.

If everyone lived like an average Emirati we would need 7planets.

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.


1- Our climate is changing because of human-induced build up of CO2 in the atmosphere.

2- Waste from factory products and packaging creates disposal problems.

3- Travel by car and airplane is effecting and makes climate change, air pollution and noise pollution.

4- In construction and manufacturing, increases environmental damage and reduces benefits to local community.

5- Industrial agriculture produces food and may have high transport impacts.

6- Local supplies of freshwater meet human needs, due to pollution.

7- Loss of biodiversity due to development in natural areas and natural resource.

8-Local cultural heritage is being lost throughout the world, resulting in loss of local identify and knowledge.

9- Some in the world live in relative poverty, while many in the developing world cannot meet their basic needs from what they produce or sell.

10- Rising wealth and greater health and happiness increasingly give us longer healthy live.

* which principles do you think will be difficult for Masdar City to maintain ?

- Zero Carbon and Sustainable Transport.

* The goals of our One Planet Living Programme:

1. Build a world-wide network of One Planet Living Communities and other exemplary projects to demonstrate One Planet Living in action.

2. Establish One Planet Living Centres in each One Planet Living community as a focus for education.

3. Promote the imperative for One Planet Living and its guiding principles to catalyse change with governments, business and individuals.

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

1- Panyu Jinshan in China.
2- Sibaya in South Africa.
3- OPL London in UK.
4- Montreal.
5-Masdar City in United Arab Emirates.

* Where are the Officially Endorsed One Planet Communities?

1- One Gallions in UK
2- Sonoma Mountain Village in Canada & USA.
3-Mata de Sesimbra

American 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.

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.

A film produced by me about Global Warming

Summary of An Inconvenient Truth Film

This movie provides information the beginning of the environment changes. It explains the meaning of the global warming. As the film shows, the sun’s radiations fall in the earth. Some of the radiations are absorbed and others stay in the atmosphere. That atmosphere is becoming thick due to this, atmosphere and temperature goes up in all countries. The film also explains the measures of Carbon Dioxide levels from 1995 to 2005.

Then we found the effect of global warming. One affect of global warming is melting the snow which covered most of the Kilimanjaro. In addition, 40% of people get drinking water from rivers and springs by the melt water from glaciers. Those people will suffer shortage of this melting.

Variation of the earth’s surface temperature for the past 140 years and for the past 1000 years was discussed in the movie. It’s clear from the graphs that the temperature has been increasing; the hottest of all was 2005. These heat waves killed more than 30,000 people in Europe. Overall, the most of the cities around the world are facing high heat waves, including ocean’s temperature.

Global warming affects also caused flooding in china. Not only this but the movie explains the infections disease global warming brought such as mosquitoes and 30 other new diseases such as Avian flu, SARS and WEST NILE VIRUS which has spread across the continent.

Reaction to Inconvenient Truth Film:

I think that people must be educated from their government around the world must take global warming more seriously . The movie made me think about more about the environment and the movie also opened my mind about the danger of global warming which it’s coming to destroy our world if we didn’t control it.

People also must try not to destroy the environment and produce things that will not hurt our environment and decrease pollution.

An interview with my friend about ' Global Warming'

MY CARBON FOOTPRINT

Carbon footprint is the amount of the carbon that every person on this earth affects the environment. They call it carbon footprint because the bad habits or behaviors which come from people and put their mark on this earth I thought that I am very environmentally but I was really disappointed when I saw my score which was 4.09. It means that if all people will do like me we will need four planets to live. For food the percentage was 12%, home 9%, stuff 24% and the biggest percentage which I scored 55% and it’s horrible.

First of all, let’s turn our attention to the lowest percentage in my life which is just 9%, because I am living in a flat with my sister’s husband. However, I eat meat once weekly; my score for it was 12%. But the problems started from the two other activities such as stuff when I scored 24%, because every two months I change my mobile phones with the fashion. In addition, last month I bought eight AC because our problem is each person must has his own room with an AC and they turn it on for long time daily even nobody is at home. The most dangerous factor which affected my score was the transportation. Having a 4x4 petrol car will cause the biggest percent in the carbon footprint when I got 55% in my quiz. Moreover, I am using the car more than 25 hours weekly which makes increasing in the carbon footprint because my house is away from my work. In addition, each one from my family has his own car and some of them have two cars.

Now, let’s turn our attention to some solutions. Possible response to this issue is I should eat meat once monthly to reduce the percentage of food. A further idea concern for stuff which I must keep my mobile phone for long time without changing it and we don’t have to switch on all AC and lights if there no one at home. . One last way to approach this predicament which was the major one is I have to sell my 4x4 car and buy small car and I think it will be a good idea to share one car with my brother to go to work which could may help to reduce our carbon footprint.

In conclusion, the carbon footprint calculator is a good example for getting new information of our carbon footprint which I didn’t care about before. I think also each person must take this exam to know his carbon footprint maybe after that we will live with an earth without any source of pollution.

What should be done in Abu Dhabi to make people more aware of Global Warming?

- I think most of the people in Abu Dhabi don’t know about this situation and the way to make aware them as Abu Dhabi’s government did when they made the project called “ Masdar” which means a city empty from any source of gas or carbon that could make global warming.

- Another thing I think it will work if we put an advertisement poster in the street or in our local newspaper and magazines which talk about the global warming and the danger of it in our life.

- Doing some lectures about the global warming and invite the people to come and tell them one week before the lecture to have a bigger of audience.

"Why is it called “An Inconvenient Truth”?

Many people who live on this earth don’t know about something that could happen in the future that will affect their lives. Even if they know about global warming, they still don’t want to change their life even it this case will damage their beautiful earth.

Introduction about Cool Cities

The Cool Cities is a newest project in the 21th century that hopefully would happen all over the world. What does it mean? It means that the city which is free from any source of pollution like gases or carbon that will cause global warming. This point will help us to solve and find the solution of this problem and lead us to live in a safe and clean earth which will save our planet. In this project I am going to provide the information of the advantages of Cool Cities.

Critical Thinking

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2867241/Critical-Thinking