Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Task 6 : Cool city

I have been watched the Cool City video the video says :
Since the start of the industrial revolution there were some problems associated with economic development such as rises in population , traffic congestion and increased carbon dioxide emissions.
We have to act positively and as soon as possible to solve these problems ; otherwise we will find our self searching for another earth which is clearly impossible .
We have to decrease the amount of carbon dioxide emitted into the air by ½ or 50 % to live within the capacity of a single earth .
In Japan during the last 30 years GDP (Gross Domestic Product ) has gone up 100 % while energy efficiency has increased 37 % and oil consumption has decreased 8 % .
90 % of carbon dioxide emitted into the air comes from buildings and transportation .
Cool City is an environmentally friendly green city . The one who built it is SDCJ and they are from Japan .
There are three types of transportation which will be used in Cool City : light transit rail , solar water ships & hybrid cars .
The various zones in the city are Business , Commercial /Cultural and Residential .
The city will use some techniques to reduce the heat such as planting trees , water ways and rooftop membranes .
There are two types of building in the Cool City .First one is eco towers and the second is eco residences .The first is expected to reduce the CO2 by 50 % and the second by 30 % .
The overall percentage of reduction of CO2 emissions in the video is 60 % .

How realistic is the video ?
The project is still not executed yet . I think there will be a lot of difficulty when they start to execute it .It seems like dream to live in a city like this ,but why not dream and try to make dreams real ; everything started from nothing . Let’s hope they succeed in their plan and that will lead to more such plans which will be good for us and for our environment.

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