Cool Cities Comments

Good adaptations:

First, Using hybrid cars, which is useful since the hybrid cars have no emissions of carbon dioxide and the implementation of those vehicles will make the cool city a much more environmental-friendly place and cool!

Second, Energy efficiency solutions, reduce the amount of pollution that cause global warming is to reduce the use of energy, Changing the lighting used in malls to fluorescent bulbs.

Last, Solar powered plant farms, this adaptation used for providing the plants with energy which came from a connection with a solar powered machine.

Bad Adaptations:

The cost!!, the cost of building cool cities is TOO high, & there's too much effort & time on building it. People will face some trouble to live in there because of the high cost & it'll be only for rich people, so.. whats the point of building carbon-free city ? or its all about money & by it u can reduce the carbon ? in a buissness point... it a FAILURE!

The water use in this city! , we are going to use an insane amount of water to just cooling this city & designing the city with waterfalls & such.. how's going to help the global warming issue?

Finally, some people may not want to change their currently life style and move to cool cities whcih's kind f weird complecated design & hardly can get along with this type of cities.

Carbon Footprint

What's Carbon Footprint calculator?

Carbon footprint is a measurement of the effects of our activities on the environment. Specifically, it is a measure for the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouses gases which have increased due to human activities and caused the global warming problem. I did a carbon footprint survey at the website http://www.footprint.wwf.org.uk/ , and my carbon footprint result was 2.74 which was calculated by the website.

However, my footprint was 2.90. That was after the survey i did in the website which let me to choose some choices from each question & some how caculate my "Carbon footprint". well, i found that i have to Buy more seasonal food! , Walk instead of using other modes of transport ... whcih is only the car.. , Turn down the heating in rooms which you are not using and Avoid over-packaged products.

Anyway, my opinion of this website, specially after the sentence "Your living as if we had 2.90 plantes to support us. Although you are below the UK average, we obviously only have the one!", i got little excited, maybe because i don't do much of carbon in my dailies life.. but still, its ridiculus, i mean after i saw the choices in that website for its survey .. it was kinda stupid, because it ask about my food which its nessasary thing in our life.. who doesn't eat? it was kind of right when he asked about invronment friend tools like electrecity & such. but there's another question such the hours i traveld outside europe!! i don't live in euorpe & plus the time traveling in a plane it should atleas take about 15 or 14 hours in total conseder the the long way between my country & the country im going to. Finally... UAE got MORE carbon footprint than the US!!.. what the..!! well... nothing to say more...

An inconvenient truth - Evaluation

The movie An inconvenient truth by Al Gore was a very exciting documentary. Watching it was very enjoying and intersting. the presenter, Al Gore was really good. His timing and slide show presentation was really remarkable, he knew how to grab the attention of the audience when it came to showing charts and what kind of information would be suitable for them. He collect pictures, statistics, graphs and some funny videos, that made "Global Warming" a Fact that convince many people who were not aware of it or for those were not believe in it.

He said that all scientists agreed that the main cause of the global worming is greenhouse gasses. But a lot of scientists think that the cause of the global worming is the water vapor.I think that scientists still not sure about the main cause of this climate changes. But still we have to keep our earth clean and reduce the pollutions level by using renewable sources. However, he mentioned that U.S.A are the main reason for alot of damage to the invironment & causes alot of carbon that increase the golbal warming, & in the end, i mean today, the US still does nothing about or atleast something we heared about.. they only needs to change some devices & pulbs to make a change, but did they ? . Well... i don't think so & thats why it still An inconvenient truth to me. UAE that barly makes any pollution is working on global warming issue & doing things that other countries doesn't, why we do that ? maybe because we care or maybe there's another reason.. but still something better than nothing ya ?. They insest on us to wrok on global issue while we are not the reason, even writing this comments in our blog kind of an insisting & working on somthing we didn't cuase, only a little... :P

Finally, i think this movie should be release again in a different version, about what the changes from the US itself from the release of An inconvenient truth 'till today & shows what the changes they calim that they did.

An Inconvenient truth - summary

In the movie "An Inconvenient Truth”, released in 2006, Al Gore, Theformer presidential candidate , shows a documentary movie about "globalwarming". He collected his information's by traveling around the world to letthe people know what are the risks of this problem is. He talks about howpeople are the reason to increase the danger of this issue; he also suggestedsome solution for it and how it affected his life in many different ways. AlGore says that his son and sister are the main reason why he became moreinterested in global warming issue.

There are many problems connected to global warming. One problem is ecosystem is changing quickly. Another issue is that the Co2 concentrations were found too high when scientists measured ice samples in glaciers. A further problem is that the oceans are warmer than the past. A final difficulty is that glaciers started melting which means coastal areas are flooding.

Al Gore shows several solutions to help reduce the catastrophic effects of global warming. One solution is to reduce the carbon dioxide levels and also implementing the process of planting more vegetation in order for them to consume more carbon dioxide. More efficient use of Electricity, appliances and other renewable sources and higher mileage cars are also mentioned. These easy & small solutions can really affect the global warming, its only needs some individual & group works to make it happen in no time. Change the way of thinking in several things we use & do in our daily life can make a big difference in this issue.

At the end, Gore states that global warming effects can be reversed by planting more vegetation to consume CO2 and reducing CO2 emissions. Furthermore he encourages the viewers to learn how to help to save the world. Also It is everybody’s problem because all of us live on this planet. We should take action immediately if we wanted to protect our loved ones.

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Critical thinking

Critical thinking is a way of thinking about things & we use them in our daily life. It's about examining & getting the bigger picture without borders, & it has special order or levels in each kind of thinking & all of them goes under what so called Bloom's Taxonomy, it Davide levels of thinking into 6 points. starts from Knowledge then Comprehension to Evaluation at last level & its the higher level of thinking. Critical thinkers act or think in more detailed way, they listen carefully, examine, analyze and weigh opinions & thought in a way that let them realize the situation with right judge in things. Critical thinkers are interested in a lot of things & always wants to know more, they don't stop in things where it says that the way it should be , they are limitless.

However, Critical thinking is useful & important, almost everyone of us is thinking critically is some way or another.. it helps us to realize things around as & let us see between lines, it also let us find a lot of solutions to a lot of problems which will make life easier, it helps us to invent & developed everyday, it give us an open mind & let us find the truth we seek.

(solving some games like this one can help to develop our thinking)



At the end, we all can be on the higher level of thinking which's the critical thinking by opening our mind to things comming & control situations probably, sharing our thoughts & accept some opinions, examming & be aware of things we face everyday, trying to developing our selves in a way that make us more seccessful & inm a good side of arguments & also by trying to earn more knowledge & learn from mistakes & others.

Life is simple

Life is simple, at least for me. I lived, so far, an easy good life, nice days & enjoyable moments. well... i lived 19 years ( & ya its a long life to me ) with excitements & aiming to bright & successful future. Here's some stuff about me & my life....

well, i live in AD in a peaceful neighbourhood in a nice house. I didn't move around only twice in my life when i was a child & i barely remember it. I like animals & that's why i got a parrot & a dog. Ok, lets talk about my life or you can say "school life" & it's like this,

My first years in school was in a public school where i started to see the world, in 6th grade i got my first prize as a good student with color marks ^^ , i wasn't a lazy student & i got excited after the 1st reward in my life... hmm, i got a trophy for that by the way -_-" .
In 7th grade 'till 9th grade "primary school" or what i call it "friends years", ya it was the friends year to me, here where i started to meet a lot of friends & the best of them that most of them are my friends 'till today. I joined a lot of events like swimming, environment stuff such as planting trees & clean the trash off the sea & i joined drawing competition & i won a prize for that :), also my marks were good but in 8th great i got my 1st fail mark in my life!!.. it was history class, damn how i hate it...before, anyway, i kept my marks high in other subject & there i knew that i like math because of my great teacher that made math so simple & easy.



In 1st grade in high school, my life was little confusing... i started to think about my school life & the years that i spent in schools, it was weird to think that i already spent 10 years in studying & do nothing about my futures or dreams. I was thinking about those past 10 years & whats the point of them, i realized it was useless, i didn't learn anything & it was just time killer to me...So my marks got down & down, i started to hate school & studying, even though i know deeply between my self that i can do better & I'm smarter than this..but still, marks were the prove for everything & i didn't get the color marks that i want. Then, in 11th grade, i kept thinking about my futures & what's my dream & how I'm gonna do it & what i need from studying & such..my mind was in a chaos & missed up, dunno what to do or how to think about my studies, & here was the beginning of future plans..



Thanks god I'm done from high school with un impressed marks, but i made it anyway :P. My future plan was in my head & still working on them, because when u think about your time in school, you'll think about the good time you spent with your friends & there you met your best friends 'till today, but in studying side...things are different, we are working whole life, just like bees, no breaks no dreams, we study at school 12 years then we go to college for 4 more years, after it we start to work & bam! you're married & have children & you have no dreams anymore... That's what I'm thinking about 'till today, i don't want my life to be simple or boringg like that. My dreams are, travel around the world, see all the amazing things around the world & experience new life & learn, then i want to make my own business not just normal desk work & same work everyday.. & i wan to make my own company some day. I want to accomplish all these plans in the future but first, i have to study here & work for a while because i have a debt from some people i care about, when I'm done from that & make their life easier or how it should be normal life to them & let them live a fair life..



My favorites things are music, drawing , playing football as most of us do. I like taking photos & some times editing them, i like piano & day dreams. I used to play football with my friend when i was a little younger, but not anymore.. because we were disbanded & broke up, we don't see each another anymore we don't talk or set together..i played football for my friends & i enjoyed every minute i spent there, but things went different, why ? because the same reason that didn't let us dream & plan for future.. ya it's the studying, each of us took his own path to his future.. we are busy all the time, some of my best friends i can't see them because of that..what a life, even though things didn't go the way we want, i still believe there's a day where everything will be reasonable & we can Live our Life..