Cool City

The cool city's video explains the feature of modern city which can beat the heat. Since the start of the industrial revolution, many problems have been appeared with economic development such as increasing in the amount of carbon dioxide and increasing in energy consumption. These problems should be solved or we have to find another area to live which is not possible. We have to work hardly and take action to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emitted into the air to live inside the capacity of the earth by 1.5 an atmosphere.

During the last thirty years in Japan the Gross Domestic Product has raised up 100% while energy efficiency has increased 37% and oil consumption has decreased 8% (Cool City). The 90% of carbon dioxide emitted into the air are coming from building and transportation. Therefore, new project are building which is cool city to reduce amount of pollution. Cool city is planed idea city of technology with special energy saving features which can beat the heat (Hope, 2008). The idea and knowledge of cool city are gathering from the expertise of Sustainable Development Consortium of Japan and they will design it. There are three types of transportation that will be used in Cool City such as monorail, light rail transit and hybrid car. There are various zones in the city which are business centre, residential trail and culture. The city will follow some techniques to reduce the heat by provide abundance of trees, water and recycled cool air. The two types of buildings are expected to reduce about 30% of CO2 emission.

Overall, as shown in the video the total amount of CO2 will drop down by 60%. In my opinion, the city will be able to solve many problems that related to environment issue such as global warming

Bibliography:
Cool City, Sustainable Development Consortium of Japan. 07 May 2009 <>
Hope, Bradley. "Cool ideas to beat the heat." The National Newspaper. 05 May 2005. 07 May 2009