About me

My name is Jehad I live in BaniYas I love my country very much. I live with my parents in a small villa have 6 brothers and 4 sisters. I joined ADMC to continue my HD in Food science. I am studying my English-174with my great teacher Ms: Frances Sutton, I really love my teacher she helps us to improve our English skills, She is very co-operative with us and keen on giving us wonderful classes full with benefit, new information and skills, but sometimes she get angry when any of our classmates make a noise or did not do their home work. Actually all of my classmates love Ms: Frances Sutton cause she is doing her best to teach us. In fact she is working a lot for long hours, she loves her job and we appreciate that.

Another thing I want to add away of college, home and things which I have been mentioned. I want to tell you guys about my favorite hobbies I like travelling to new countries all over the world discovering the other cultures and making new friends. Another one of my interest’s hobbies is falconry. I spend a lot of time at the weekend training my falcon Qarmoosha to hunt.

Summary of Johann Hari: We will save the planet only if we are forced to

I read the article for Mr. Johann Harries which was about “We will save the planet only if we are forced to” He is one of the people who they do care to safe our environment he gives so many ideas about how people can work together to reduce the daily amount of pollutant, people cause to the planet .
In the following I am going to focus on the main ideas which Mr. Johann Harries discussed in his article.
One of the most important things that he included in this article is that do we work honestly to stop the attack against our planet? And he gave some solutions may help in that for example we should buy the items which carbon offsets and friendly to the environment. How we can help to protect our planet? By choosing the goods which odorless, colorless and not including harmful gases which affects the climate.
People were in imminent danger because of their practices which inflating the huge amount of danger gases to the air, which affect them and destroy their planet. Yet another important thing he has included in the article that people are involved in the climate stability, because they destroyed very big areas of agriculture and disappearing the green color and pumping many harmful gases such as CFCs gases and carbon dioxide gases which increasing the temperature in our planet. In addition he says that there are a huge number of people are beginning to grasp this problem and start changing as much as they can for example, change the light bulbs and they ensure that they use equipment which not working all the day on electricity burning. There were a mass of people who are worried about global warming and they have to start by themselves changing their way of life according to the environmental agencies standards. Still another important idea which Mr. Johann Harries mentioned that people are free to choose what they like but sometimes the government legislations compel those people, so we have to safe our planet because this is a global problem everybody sharing the same water and air.
In fact I am happy to read such article cause it sending message for everybody in our planet. I fully agree with Mr. Johann Harries because this is a global problem, everybody must help to solve it .

TDIC progect in Abu Dhabi

• Which development do you think is the coolest (most interesting)?

I think that the Desert Islands will be the most interesting project which TDIC will build it in Abu Dhabi.

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  TDIC one of the biggest construction companies which monitored by Abu Dhabi government, this company will build many areas in Abu Dhabi as cool cities.
  I will write about the desert Islands which will cover many Islands in Abu Dhabi such as Sir Bani Yas Island, Delma Island and Discovery Islands.
  In my opinion this will be the most interesting project as a cool city in Abu Dhabi because they will include the Arabian Wildlife Park and it will attract many tourists to Abu Dhabi.

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  Actually all the cool city projects which tdic company will make it in Abu Dhabi are not inside Abu Dhabi Island there are far away from it.
  

Description of a cool city

During the last period of humanpean life all over the world ,many things have been changed in the life style of people, and this caused by the rapidly revolution in technologies and development, people were involved in the pollution which affects their planet. In fact it returns to their indifference and sometimes to their low knoledgment about the problem which they suffering.

In terms of our situation for this crisis, we have to think for a solution to fix this problem, to have a clean and healthy planet. However, there were some governments were movement and created a new solution to reduce the amount of this problem. Of course it will not be as clear changing, but by the time to time our earth will clean better than before and all live elements will live with clean environment, healthier and happier.

Cool city is one of the perfect places that people can live safely away from any contamination, inside the cool city there are many standers to live in such place for instance the energy will be renewable to decrease the amount of the carbon dioxide to the lower stages. Tdic is one of the companies who they specialized to build such cities. This company is located in Abu Dhabi.
There are three types of transportation will be in the cool city the first one is the hybrid cars, the light trail and the solar ships.

The cool cities depends on some techniques which will save the energy and keep the natural life with any damage it is the perfect solution to safe the natural life without any contamination.

Information about Lebanon

From the web site {http://www.globaleye.org.uk/secondary-spring06/eyeon/index.html}which we searched on, it gave some information about Lebanon such as geographical location, countries which surround Lebanon, population and other historical information.

First of all let me tell you about the history of social issue, Lebanon
was known as the land of milk and honey which is mentioned 76 times in the Bible. The capital of Lebanon is Beirut in addition it has another name “Paris of the East” in this name the imitate the capital of France, Paris. Lebanon is located in Asia and it has borders with five countries which are Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Israel and Cyprus.

Lebanon nowadays:

Lebanon was colonized by France for several years and it became independent in 1943. Lebanon has a diversity of community groups Christians, Muslims and other people from other religions. In 1975 the Christian groups attacked and killed Muslims people in a bus. From that time, they started fighting and killing each other. In addition the tensions reached their peak, so both groups Muslims and Christians were separated in Beirut city in two parts, West and East respectively. Moreover, in 1982 Israel attacked Beirut and most of the buildings were demolished. After 7 years Lebanon reached a peace. In fact this war cost Lebanon government a lot and their economy was paralyzed. Finally, Lebanon is inside a big gap of damaging and most of Lebanese are travel outside their country searching for job and a good life. All in all, Lebanon is one of the wonderful countries all over the world. It has a wealth of natural resources, political people should help Lebanon to be more safe.

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 tons of carbon less than the average of other cars.

Seattle: They have replaced old vehicles with a “clean and Green fleet and have set 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 reduced 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.

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

ONE PLANET LIVING

Explain the ten guiding principles using your own words?

1-zero carbon: What they meant by zero carbon is to reduce the amount of carbon to keep in the safe limit and not affect the creature.

2-zero waste: All the waste will be treated to avoid any damage to the earth, and it will recycle to reuse it again.

3-sustainable transport: The transporting vehicles which are used nowadays are causing a lot of pollution,CO2,noise and other pollutions so in such cities it must changed.

4-local and sustainable materials: The industrial and construction waste is damaging the environment, so in the cool cities the will reuse it to lower the damage and get more benefit to the local society.

5-local and sustainable food: The agriculture and the producing of food items may cause some pollution, so they try to avoid any imported food to reduce any pollution which happens during transporting.

6- Sustainable water: All the sources of water in cool cities will be fresh sources and will be treated to make sure that it is safe to use and it will be enough quantity to use it for all purposes.

7-Natural habitats and wild life: In the cool cities they are keen on the natural environment for wild life animals so they will protect the natural environment and will not destroy it.

8- Culture and heritage: In this time and with the globalization which all the countries all over the world know the local civilization in many countries was lost and their knoledgment start disappearing.

9-Equity and fair-trade: People who live in the development countries are finding the same chances of life such as, education, health treatment and other life facilities on the other hand people in poor countries are not finding the basic life factors.

10-Health and happiness: people always thinking in living very happy and wealthy with less responsibility. Questions always are there if they reach the perfect way of life?





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

There 3 principles I think Masder city will find difficulty to monitor:
1-Zero waste.
2-Local and sustainable food.
3- Natural habitats and wild life.


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 Centers 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.


Would you like to live in Masder city?

Yes I would like to live in Masder city.


Write a post explaining why or why not?

I am one of the people would like to live in Masder city. Because I am always looking to find a place which is free of air pollution, water pollution and safe for the environment.