Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Cool Cities (SDCJ)


Since the start of the industrial revolution, there have been some problems related to economic development like: rises in population, increase energy consumption, traffic delay and increase in carbon dioxide be emitted into the air. If we don’t solve these problems we will need another planet to live on it. We need to decrease 1.5 of Carbon Dioxide emitted into the air to live within the capacity of single earth.

In Japan during the last 30 years the (Gross Domestic Product) has gone up 100% while energy efficiency has increased 37% and oil consumption has decreased 8%. About 90 percent of carbon dioxide emitted into the air comes from building and transportation. Cool City was building by SDCJ and also they are from Japan, there are three types of transportation that will be used in Cool City like hybrid, water taxi and gasoline electricity. Business culture greens are the various zones in the city. There are some techniques that will reduce heat by water, trees and roof membrane. 60% is the overall percentage of reduction of CO2 emissions claimed in the video.

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