Masdar City Becoming A Reality But Why Not More Green Cities?
By Nick February 7, 2008
One thing is for sure - we have to save out planet and the initiative must come from world leaders, lets say United States. But when you look to the energy budget proposed by George W. Bush for 2009 which includes solar power investments, you will think that they don’t care about our planet.
As the pollution rate grows, the humanity (except the U.S.) is starting to realize that our biggest problem represents the pollution rate which has increased probably too much over the past years. Researchers are trying to design and put together ideas which consist of building structures and even small cities with zero pollution.
Until now only one project has been unveiled, Masdar City which will be built in Abu Dhabi and it will have a perimeter of approximately 2.3 square-mile. According to some recent reports, the complex should be able to provide shelter for about 50,000 people. The city will have no cars and the energy will be provided entirely by the sun and it will be distributed through a solar power plant.
The Masdar Initiative is a part of a $15-billion energy initiative started two years ago by the U.A.E. government and a part of the money comes with the help of the Kyoto Protocol which pays countries to develop green projects. The CEO of the Masdar Initiative, Sultan Al Jaber, says that the main purpose is to replace oil-based energy with zero-pollution energy technology.
Ellen Dunham-Jones, Director of the architecture program at the Georgia Institute of Technology, says that although the United Arab Emirates is building more and more futuristic constructions, their plan is to develop post-oil economy and their interest is to design sufficient and efficient energy systems based on sun power.
Abu Dhabi’s Government seems to realize what pollution does to our planet and they are working on a plan. I wonder why is so hard for other countries to do the same thing? Even if the main concern of U.A.E. is their economy, I am satisfied with the idea of a green city and the rest doesn’t matter.
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