Summarize Johann Haris' opinion

Summary:

This article was written be Mr. Johann Hari who is one of the militant and fighter for who destroyed our planet without think about others lives. In other words, he fights to a let people to reduce the pollute environment. In fact he blamed some governments where didn’t do anything with this problem. Because they have to put strong rules and laws. In addition, he has been developed several solutions and ideas green to protect the environment from pollution, by proved some eco-friend material which couldn’t affect our earth and asking people to change their lifestyles. However, I agree with him when the government put strong rules but when they do it, they have to put a solution.

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Of course it will make Abu Dhabi as a cool city but if it will cover all the city around it, because most of this developments are away from AD city. In addition, there is a chance to change the lifestyle of the people there to reduce their carbon footprint and starting a new healthy life and happiness. It could happen if don’t just concentration on one point which is increasing their economy.

Watch a Youtube video about Saadiyat Island, Yas island or Al Raha beach .

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* Which development do you think is the coolest (most interesting)?
- The most interesting is building the villas on the front beach of Saadiyat Island.

Really, it’s a good step to solve the climate change and to develop our country. In fact, it will help to increase our economic by attracting tourists to visit our city and they can also buy private land for investment, so I think these developments aren’t for local people to solve their problem. It’s only for business and how to get money and also to share the world with their problem which is global warming and how to avoid that.

Describing a Cool City

Since the start of the industrial revolution, human's life began to change by time to time which helps them to have easy life or in the other word it give to them a health and happiness. In fact the world is crossing to another way, our earth has benefited from this industrial revolution, but it has a pollution which helps to destroy our planet by causing global warming. All human activities are producing CO2 which is the main source to make an climate change.

If we don't solve these problems which we made it by our hands, so our earth will be in the danger zone while if we doing something to change or to decline the percentage of carbon footprint. In addition, there were some people who try to let people aware about this situation. By the year, they have taken up challenge and created a new technique to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide by building a Cool City where everything is eco-friendly to our environment.

This type of city will help to decrease the percent of CO2. Because of their building are build from green and all types of equipment or life stuff is green, which is friendly for the earth. Moreover, there will be three types of transportation there friendly to our planet for instant solar ships, light rail transit and hybrid cars. Over all, it will help to reduce the amount of electricity, waste and water. In other words, it helps to save our money and energy.

All in all, these cities are the best solution to save our earth and to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide and it also will affects for all who have carbon footprint on this earth which will rise the pollution in the future.

Living in Masdar city

Would you like to live in Masdar City? Why?
Of Course I want to live there, who would like to live there, a healthy life and safe.

- Why!! There all thing which we need to live without damaging our environment and I will be one of the people whom wants to change his lifestyle to safe his earth from pollution and to reduce the amount of carbon footprint. In fact, the best thing I like about the city in that I can walk in the city without feeling hot. They will create a green system as an air condition to give the city cool air.

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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 eleven 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.
1- Zero Carbon: create things which are not produce CO2.
2- Zero Waste: all types of waste can be reusable.
3- Sustainable transport: Changing all kind of cars to hybrid vehicles, but the plane we have to decrease our traveling by it.
4- Local and Sustainable Materials: less import the materials from outside.
5- Local and Sustainable Food: trying to get their food from their land without importing from others countries, especially those far away from us.
6- Sustainable water: The freshwater supply must be easy to find and enough for the city.
7- Natural Habitats and Wildlife: Trying to protect the environment and preserve the wildlife, will help to overcome the environmental change and maintain the environmental resources
8- Culture and Heritage: Anyone who isn’t saves his cultures and history of his people, land and countries; he will not have a clear future.
9- Equity and Fair-trade: all people whose lives inside the city must be in same level or they have to live into two levels, one for riches people and the other is for medium levels people.
10- Health and Happiness: Of course any one need to be healthy and happiness by taking time to relax and having enough time with his family.

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Which principles do you think will be difficult for Masdar City to maintain?
1- Local and Sustainable Materials.
2- Local and Sustainable Food.

What are the three goals of the 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?

Panyu Jinshan in China, Sibaya in South Africa, OPL London in UK, Montreal.

Where are the Officially Endorsed One Planet Communities?
One Gallions in UK, Sonoma Mountain Village in Canada & USA, 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. 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.

Marion County Florida: The government bought the Toyota Privs vehicles because it’s hybrid and useless oil.