Carbon Footprint

Carbon footprint foot print is the measure of total amount of carbon gas produced due to our daily activity, this issue is important because carbon dioxide is the main factor for causing global warming, unfortunately I found out that my annual footprint is 13.89 and that If I continue ill be needing 3.1 earths to continue my lifestyle.
The main problem I suffered is that I use my car a lot, because I live in Al Shahama, and have a habit of wondering between the cities of Abu Dhabi and Dubai so I usually spend 23 hrs in my car per week, because of the long distance from home I cant minimize the car usage, but what I can do is to use the car in long destination only. Also ill have to check the cars filters, and make sure to fill my car with unleaded gas.

Cool Cities is the hope of future

As we improve technology, the population of people and the demand of energy increases, leading to a direct increase in carbon dioxide emission which helps in speeding the process of global warming. If we continue emitting carbon dioxide into our atmosphere we will need a substitute for earth, which is impossible, so we have to cut down our emissions to 50% to reach a capacity of one earth. Japan was one of the active countries toward this issue, because it had a low emission rate among other countries and because it increased its energy efficiency to 37% while decreasing its oil consumption to 8%.

Most of emissions are from buildings and transportation, so as a result a new project was brought which is the building of Cool city. Cool city is an ideal and model city of technology and knowledge gathered from the SDCG expertise. This city will operate on natural energies, such as it will present solar ships, hybrid cars, light rail transit, and monorail as transportation. It will also meet the requirements of the residents and visitors by having a business, sport, resort zones and a Jatropha forests, last but not least it will contain power plant farms. This cities heat managing will be unique, where they will manage heat by water, planting trees, roof membrane and the usage of recycled cool air.

As a result the buildings will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 60%, where the echo towers will reduce 50% and the echo residences will reduce carbon emissions to 30%. This is a great project to prove that technology can be used in solving problems, and maybe in the near future we will find a way to stop global warming.

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