Wednesday, June 4, 2008

American Cool Cities


There are many American cities that became "Cool Cities". I will state 10 American cities that became cool cities and what they are doing to reduce their carbon foot prints. The cities are:

1. Seattle: They reduced global warming pollution by more than 60 percent by constructing green buildings and operating alternative fuel vehicles.

2. Washington DC: DC has replaced 414 of its polluting diesel buses with buses that burn natural gases.

3. Houston: convert a substantial portion of the city of fleet of cars and trucks.

4. Marion County/Florida: they use gas-electric hybrid vehicles.

5. The city of Scottsdale: has introduced Arizona’s first green building program which helps builders and home owners learn about how to integrate energy efficiency and water saving.

6. Salt Lake City: they changed 861 traffic lights to LED light signals.

7. Colorado: is working to produce 50 percent of the city electricity with renewable energy by 2017.

8. Charlotte: they switched from a gas only Ford Taurus to a hybrid Toyota Prius or Honda Civic and that would save city taxpayers approximately $800-1200 per vehicle including over $400 in annual fuel cost.

9. Twin Falls/ Idaho: Reduce energy cost and cut pollution by increasing the energy efficiency of its 11 schools.

10. St. Paul: they use a system that uses heat drawn from a biomass-fired power plant.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

What Should Abu Dhabi do to raise the awareness among people?


Every city in the world must have something to do with global warming either in a good helpful way or in a bad destructive way.Abu Dhabi has to do something in order to decrease their gigantic carbon foot print. One of the ways is to raise the awareness within the people.To raise the awareness in the city , Abu Dhabi should do the following:
  • Advertise about the effects and causes of global warming.

  • Publish it in newspapers and magazine and to disuses the effects and causes of global warming.

  • Make programs on TV and radio that talks about global warming which provide alternative reasonable solutions that can be applied by the common people.

  • Interview people who can do sessions and seminars to talk about global warming

  • Put posters on bill board and on the street to remind people of global warming

  • Publish flayers every where even in kids book to show what global warming may do to our world

By appling those tips, the awareness will hopfully increase within the common people.




Why Is It Called An Inconvenient Truth ..?


its called an inconvenient truth, because it is not easy and conveient for people to change how they live from confortable life to hard life.

Global Warming Video

This is our global warming video , Me and my friend Obaid worked on it , i hope that you will enjoy it...







Click on the link to download it.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/8nrnso

Sunday, April 27, 2008

An Inconvenient Truth


In this movie, Al Gore was trying to show the people around the world what is happening. He showed the people a problem that most of them know about and that is, global warming. Most people are aware of global warming but they don’t know the effects that this issue may cause. Al Gore says that if we don't act or do something about this problem, it will have severe consequences.

My first reaction was is that I was shocked from what I have heard. It was an eye opening truth. The way that Al Gore presented the problem was amazing. He made me see the world in a different view. Amazing!!

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Introduction


One of the biggest problems that people around the world face nowadays is global warming. It is becoming bigger and bigger every single day because the increases of the average temperature of the Earth. It is reaching unnatural levels which will cause many problems and disaster for humanity and the wild life. The UAE is one of the countries that is participating to reduce the effects of global warming by using new technologies such as petrol with less carbon and building new cities with zero carbon like Masder city. In my project I'm going to do researches on global warming and I have decided to focus on critical thinking to get good ideas and the best solutions.

Critical Thinking


This is a PowerPoint which shows us the summery of the Critical Thinking and i hope you enjoy it.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2606212/Critical-Thinking