Friday, February 29, 2008

Carbon footprints


A carbon footprint is a method to get the mount of the carbon dioxide that we produce from what we use. It let us also to know about of amount of the greenhouse effects we effect.

In some environmental organization they have made a method how we measure the carbon footprint in a simple method by answering some multiple questions. I calculated my carbon footprint through the two websites in "http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/“and"http://www.myfootprint.org/". There were a varies of questions including type of transportation and electricity use.

My carbon footprint of the both sides was 7.955. I also have taken five of the students carbon footprint, I ranked the 1st and the lowest was using 6.515.
My advice is that we have to start to think about our planet future by developing high technology industry and reduce our electricity usage. Moreover, Its really recommended to start using renewable sources than non renewable resources.

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Cool city


Since the Industrial revolution some problems has started, such as rising in population, increase in energy consumption, increasing in carbon dioxide emission into the air and the traffic delay.

Solving these problems in the coming new days would save us thinking to live in another planet if people ignore these problems. People should decrease the amount of the carbon dioxide emitted into the air by 50% to live within the capacity of a single earth. Japan DPA( Gross Domestic Product ) has gone up in past 30 years by 100% and also increase 37% and 8% was decreased in oil consumption.

A Japanese organization made from companies called SDCJ has planned of a project named cool city. Cool city is Model city have a various technologies to cool the air and reduce the carbon dioxide emissions by 60%. This city cars is hybrid, water taxi would be available and light mono rails as well. In addition, the city radius is estimated to 1KM which means that everything inside the city is easy to reach by walking. Cool city uses solar farms which is surrounded to many trees to prevent and hold sand storms.