Cool City

We watched the Cool City video on 5-5-2009.
According to the video:

Economic development since the Industrial Revolution has been breathtaking but it has brought with it problems such as population pressure and CO2 emissions.
If we don't take action to solve these problems, we'll need a new earth and this is clearly impossible.
We have to reduce CO2 emissions by 50%.
In Japan during the last 30 years, GDP has gone up 100 per cent, while energy efficiency has increased by 37% & oil consumption decreased by 8%.
90% of CO2 emitted into the air comes from buildings and transport.Cool city is an environmentally friendly green city with minimal CO2 emissions. It t is being built by SDCJ, a group of Japanese companies.
There are three main zones: Business; Commercial/Cultural; and Residential.
There are three types of transport mentioned in the video and they are light transit rail, water taxis and hybrid cars.
Heat-reducing techniques: tree-planting; waterways; rooftop membranes.
Expected CO2 reductions: for eco-towers 50% and for eco-residences 30%.Overall reduction of CO2 emissions is expected to be 60%.

My opinion:
For me, I am not persuaded that it will be activated in the UAE because of the population's daily life and culture. Moreover, people in the UAE are not accustomed to living in a cool city. However foreign people are more than Emiratis in the UAE hence maybe it will work to establish this city.

My carbon footprint

Carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activities have on the environment and it relates to the amount of greenhouse gases produced in our day-to-day lives through burning fossil fuels for electricity, heating and transportation etc. The UAE's carbon footprint per capita is the highest in the world, because there is lack of environmental regulation and technology that help to reduce the footprint.

I measured my carbon footprint at http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/ and after I answered my quizzes about food, travel, home and stuff in different categories that were related to identify my footprint and I have got 2.75. The main factors of this result were from:
1) Home (45%)
2) Stuff (32%)
3) Food (21%)

Most of the students had similar figures. The average figure for CRE was approximately 3.87.

What can I do to reduce my carbon footprint?

Home is the largest contributor to my carbon footprint but I'm not sure what I can do to make considerable change. I used lot of electricity especially in summer; nevertheless I can’t use another alternative source of energy such as solar or wind energy because they are very expensive to install but I could replace electrical devices which use less power or switch off the unnecessary lights or power in the home.

Things such as clothes are the second largest contributor to my carbon footprint; I think if I want to reduce it, I should cut back buying clothes and limit using my mobile.

With regard to food, my diet is particularly healthy and I can't see what I can do to improve it. I walk every night and eat only twice a day and so I don't over-consume food.