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.

Conversaetion: Global Warming

Carbon footprint

Carbon footprint

Carbon footprint is the reflect in humans activities against the environment which surrounds them. There is a small quiz where anybody can do it on many web sites to have an idea about how everybody could affect the planet by gases which spread out from electrical machine, transport vehicles, industrial work and many other pollution sources. www.myfootprint.org one of the web sites which can help to show the results of the carbon dioxide (CO2).

I did the quiz and actually I was shocked when I saw the score I got 3.42 which mean that I have to do some corrective action to reduce the huge amount of pollution to live in safe world!!!

In the following I am going to discuss my footprint problems and then I am going to phrase some solutions which led us to the right way.

There are a lot of problems that we have to put in our consideration. One of those problems is the house stuff. First of all is that there are many electrical machines in my house and all these machines are producing gases which caused air pollution .Yet another problem which I want to discuss is food footprint, where most of our food is not local manufactured it is actually imported from many countries all over the world which is another source of pollution. A final problem is that the transportation vehicles in every house there are many cars which also spread out carbon dioxide and pollute the earth.

Because of all these negative effects of carbon foot print let’s now display some solutions for these problems. One possible response to this is to use equipment which does not making pollution for example the lights, washing machines, ovens, and many other types of equipment. By doing things like that we will reduce the amount of gases which are damaging our environment. The solution for the second problem is we should to have to buy local food which is transported safely because some times when the food imported from far distance it may get affected.

A Final solution for the last problem which I had mentioned in the latter paragraph is that we need good control for using our cars.

To sum up, although several problems have been mentioned, it is entirely a different solution to make these solutions a reality. I wish that everybody will start to safe our planet!!!

PhotoStory: Global Warming

An Inconvenient Truth

Summary of “An inconvenient truth”

An inconvenient truth is one of the few wonderful films at this time, because it shows us the human activities which are destroying the earth. For instance the industrial waste, the green house gases which spread out from our houses, the sea dumping and many other practices which affect our earth .Actually, I like the way which the director phrase the information, he impressed me very much and he is very clever to focus on such problem (Global Warming) to show the humans the bad practices and habits against our planet.

Al-Gore is one of the people who care about our earth and he wants to give the message for all the humanity to do something against the global warming and by this film he increased the awareness of people all over the world. He is one of the famous persons in America who cares about this phenomena. Moreover, in this film Al-Gore encourage the governments and people to do something and play their vital role to decrease the limit of pollution which may destroy our world .In addition the film shows many real pictures of the situation how people affect the earth and it also included some statistics which led us to see how terrible that we are stuck in.

Reaction to” An inconvenient truth”

Another thing I want to add it is that this film increased my knowledge about the vital role that everybody can playing to save our planet. Of course we know now that ¾ of the ice caps in the north quarter has melted and it caused many natural disasters like floods in different countries in our world.

Why it is called “An inconvenient truth”?

It was called An inconvenient truth because most of the people do not believe in this disaster global warming or in another meaning they are ignoring this from it because, they do not want to change their life or spend more money. Moreover, this includes some governments, traders, and people all over the world because if they want to change they have to pay more money.

What should be done in Abu Dhabi to make people more aware of the situation?

v In my opinion Abu Dhabi government should levy taxes on the transporting vehicles and big industrial companies which increase the level of pollution.

v The governments should provide special buses to pick up the workers from their houses to the work and return them back.

v Reduce the amount of imports items which cause environmental pollution.

v The environmental agency in Abu Dhabi should do regular visits to the industries to make sure that they are following the health standards.

v Also they have to do advertising in different ways for example on radio, TV programmes, news papers and magazines to increase the people awareness about the global warming.

Introduction: Cool Cities

Cool cities

One of the perfect solutions for the global warming phenomena is the cool cities.

What we mean by cool cities?

The cool cities mean that we have to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in those cities to get free from air pollution and water pollution, these cool cities are very big project which has a height quality standards to reduce the carbon dioxide which polluted the earth so, it will concentrate on everything in such cities the source of water, the electricity supplies and other energies which I have mentioned must be renewable energies.

Another thing I want to add it to build such cities it will cost a lot of money, there are many cool cities all over the world, in USA, UK and many other countries, cool cities are not only new cities there were cities before 100 -150 years ago, but they follow some standards and regulations to lower the amount of CO2.

Critical Thinking