Thursday, May 7, 2009

Task6: Cool Cities



The industrial revolution began in the seventeenth century but there have been some problems associated with economic development. Some of these problems are the rise in population, increase in energy consumption, which usually leads to the increase in carbon dioxide emissions to the air, and traffic delays. If we don’t solve these problems we will need another planet to live in. So we need to decrease the carbon dioxide emissions by 50% to be safe.
Almost all of the carbon dioxide emissions are coming from buildings and transportation which form around 90%. Nowadays technology built for us buildings that will reduce 50% of the carbon dioxide in the air and the residential buildings will reduce 30%. These buildings are Cool Cities; Cool Cities are built by Japan. There are three types of transportation that will be used in the Cool City, like hybrid cars, water taxis and light rail. Business, Cultural and Residential are the various zones in the city. There are some techniques that will reduce heat by water, trees and roof membranes.

In my opinion, this idea is the best or the good to decrease the pollution and to decrease the carbon dioxide. Also this city will be the best place for living specially because this place has a good atmosphere which is created by using cold water and fresh air from trees and plants.

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