Carbon Footprints

Carbon Footprints is the a mount of carbon dioxide emitted due to your daily activities from washing a load of laundry to driving a car load of kids to school. I measured my carbon footprint by using these web sites:
http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/ http://www.myfootprint.org/
They help me by asking me a lot of questions like which kind of food I am eating and weather I am eating the meat every week or every day. Also there were some questions about Traveling if I am using the bus or my own car and how long I travel by my own car every week and every month which means calculations of petrol consumptions accordingly the increasing of carbon dioxide emission in the air from the consumption. Addition to that I was asked by this site about home for example how many adult in my house and which kind of the house I am living in. More over, I was asked about the stuff. For example did I buy any equipment tool or how much did I spend on jewelry in last 12 month. How much did I spend on bath and grooming products in the last 12 month? After finishing that the sites ranked me according to my answers. My footprint was as I am living in 3.78 planets and 9.58 earths, the average is 6.68. MY carbon footprint had been calculated, which was 16.56tonnes per annum. After that I compare the earth equivalent results of my classmates with my result. Ali Al-Hosani his earth equivalent was 6.65, Mansoor Abdullah was 7.05 and Ali Al-Hammadi was 6.08 and the results show that still I am the highest among them. That’s mean the amount of carbon dioxide which is emitted due to my daily activities is high. So to reduce my impact footprint on the environment I should buy more seasonal food, walk instead of using other modes of transport, turn down the air condition in rooms which I am not using and I should avoid over-packaged products.

This link will help you to reduce your carbon footprints:

http://www.metroactive.com/metro/08.15.07/50-ways-to-go-green-0733.html

Cool Cities

Since the start of the industrial revolution, there were some problems associated with economic development like Rises in population, increase energy consumption, traffic delay and the emission of carbon dioxide. However, if we don’t solve these problems we will need another earth to replace our own. We suppose to decrease the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by one half to live within the capacity of a single earth. In Japan during the last 30 years GDP has gone up 100% while energy efficiency has increased 37% and oil consumption has decreased 8%. Ninety percent of carbon dioxide emitted into the air comes from the buildings and transportations. Cool City is a city which can reduce carbon dioxide emission by 60% as well as provide with enjoyable life style. SDCJ is building the Cool City and they are from Japan. There are three types of transportations which will be used in Cool City for example hybrid, water taxi and monorail. The various zones in the city are business cultural greens. Water, trees and roof membranes will be used as techniques to reduce the heat. Fifty percent and thirty percent are the expected CO2 reductions for the two types of buildings. The overall percentage is 60% of reduction of CO2 emission claimed in the video.

This blog is about Cool Cities I hope you enjoy with these articles. I hope you find it interesting.

Carbon Dioxide

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is emitted from many sources and its main reason of global warming. It is emitted naturally through the carbon cycle and through human activities like the burning of fossil fuels. Natural of CO2 occur within the carbon cycle where billions of tons of atmospheric CO2 are absorbed from the atmosphere by oceans and growing plants and are emitted back into the atmosphere through natural processes. When in balance, the total carbon dioxide emissions and removals from the entire carbon cycle are roughly equal. Since the Industrial Revolution in the 1700’s, human activities, such as the burning of oil, coal and gas, and deforestation, has increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. In 2005, global atmospheric concentrations of CO2 were increased higher than they were before the Industrial Revolution. Global temperatures are expected to continue to rise because CO2 is increasing as human activities continue to add carbon dioxide. As a result this will lead to make serious environment problem such as earthquakes, flooding water, and climate change.

To know more about this chart you can click on this link:
http://rainforests.mongabay.com/09-carbon_emissions.htm