Cool Cities in the U.S.A

Many Cities in the U.S are trying to become a "cool city" and they are on the right track.
They are doing many things and I'll mention the city name and what they do. The cities are:


1. Seattle: They reduced global warming pollution by more than 60 percent by constructing green buildings and operating alternative fuel vehicles.

2. Washington DC: DC has replaced 414 of its polluting diesel buses with buses that burn natural gases.

3. Houston: convert a substantial portion of the city of fleet of cars and trucks.

4. Marion County/Florida: they use gas-electric hybrid vehicles.

5. The city of Scottsdale: has introduced Arizona’s first green building program which helps builders and home owners learn about how to integrate energy efficiency and water saving.

6. Salt Lake City: they changed 861 traffic lights to LED light signals.

7. Colorado: is working to produce 50 percent of the city electricity with renewable energy by 2017.

8. Charlotte: they switched from a gas only Ford Taurus to a hybrid Toyota Prius or Honda Civic and that would save city taxpayers approximately $800-1200 per vehicle including over $400 in annual fuel cost.

9. Twin Falls/ Idaho: Reduce energy cost and cut pollution by increasing the energy efficiency of its 11 schools.

10. St. Paul: they use a system that uses heat drawn from a biomass-fired power plant.

P & S .My Carbon Footprint

Nowadays, with the dramatic growing of the global warming issue, we all hear a term called "Carbon Footprint". Carbon footprint is a measurement our daily activities and what their impact on the earth and especially on the air.

When I measured my own carbon footprint, I found that it's 3.31 planets and I was shocked to see that, because I thought I would not even cross 2.5 planets. In my essay, I'm going to discuss the problem and try to find some possible solutions for it.

One main problem is that I use my car us the only was of transportation and I drive a big car so it burn a lot of fuel which produce a lot of carbon.

Another problem is that I eat a lot of meat and fish. I'm used to eating meat or fish every day at least once and I have to change that.

A further problem is electricity usage, which is a minor problem but considered a problem as well.

One solution is that the government should make trains that connect the whole city so people can use trains instead of cars and that will help in many thing like; reducing the amount of carbon. And at the same time it will reduce the traffic in the city because people won't use cars a lot, but they will use train or even buses if we have a good transportation system for both buses and trains. Another solution is in the food part. I can eat less fish and meat every day, and eat more vegetables or other food products. A further solution is to try and use solar energy or any other energy source that is cleaner or natural so it will make a difference if everybody does that.

In conclusion, transportation is my main problem and I have to find better ways to reduce using my car and reduce emissions. There are many solutions that I can follow to reduce my Carbon Footprint and if everybody tries and does the same that will make a huge difference and carbon emission rates will decrease and that means global warming effects will become less dangerous.

Why is it called “An Inconvenient Truth”?

I think the movie is called “An Inconvenient Truth” to show how this truth is hard for us to know, because most people know about the global warming issue but when it’s time to act and do something for it, most people just sit there and do nothing, but they know that we have to do something about it soon or else the impact won’t just be on us but the fatal effect will be for the next generations

My Profile

Hello my classmates, friends and bloggers. How are you guys doing, hope you are enjoying blogging as much as I do. That is my profile, and I'm going to talk about my life and I will talk about it my life now, my past and what I want to be in the future, briefly.
First of all, I'm Ali Abdulraheem Ali Al Hammadi, I was born in Sharjah in Feb, 3rd, 1988. And that means that I'm 20 years old. I study at Abu Dhabi Men's College. I'm in level two and I choose business as my major.
I have 5 brothers and 5 sisters. I'm not sure why, but people think our family is big! And I agree with that. My elder brother Khaled which will "Enshallah" finish his studies in the U.S by the end of May this year, is the one I like to be with among my other brothers, and that might be because he's my elder and the rest are younger than me. I think that since I was a kid, I always wanted to be like him because he is so ambitious, creative and funny.

When I was a kid we didn't settled at one place because of my father's work. I lived about 3 years in Sharjah since I was born and after that we came to Abu Dhabi, and lived here for about 2 years which was the time I was in Kenny garden, after that we went back to Sharjah and lived there for two more years and we came back to settle at Abu Dhabi until now, and I think that I will never live in Sharjah again because it become horrible with all the traffic jam there.

When I was at primary school, I had troubles with learning and I was a lazy student. I still don't know if it was because of the teachers I had or because of me. But in mid school my grades has gone up and I improved a lot than I used to be thanks to the great teachers that I had. When I was a kid I always dreamt of having sport cars and I was, or let me say that I'm still have the same passion to drive fast cars and feel the adrenalin in my body when I drive sport cars.

In the main time, if I put my studying aside, I a totally different person outside the college. Most of the people know me as a quit person who's shy and never talk. But when I go out I go "wild". I'm lively, when I'm with my friends; I talk all the time and to move. I'm full of happiness and I hate being with people who tend to be sad and closed, because they make me feel like I did something wrong and make me feel depressed. At the same time, I like when someone come to me and asks me for help when he has a problem because I feel that he know that I can help him and that make me feel happy.

I have many interests. First of all, I like swimming, and that's something that I have to do in the summer, sometimes here at Abu Dhabi, Dubai at Jumairah beach and In Sharjah. I think that's good because it's a sport which is good for the body and I can enjoy my time being with my friends at the same time. Most of the time I like set in my room and that's when I'm not doing anything and spend hours in PC games and in my friend's website. Everyday at about 7:30 pm. I go with my friends and run for half hour, I started to do that after my I had some health problems because of the way I live.

Friendship means everything to me, but at these days finding true friends that understand you is impossible. Since I was a kid, I had a friend that I understand me and he's everything to me, he's like the brother, this friend's name is Abdullah.

We spent most of the time together and we always hang out together since 3rd grade. And my mother has become his mother's friend now.
There are many things that I don't like and others that I used to do but not anymore. One the things that I never like to do is traveling. I traveled once in my whole life and that was by car with my family, we went to the KSA and Kuwait and the trip took us two weeks. I will never forget that holiday because it was amazing but after we came back and I don't know what changed, but I don't want to travel. This year I started to hate watching TV. And I feel much better because I have time to do other things like sit with my family.

In the future, first thing I want to do is to complete my studies and to have bachelor degree because I think that at this time HD level is considered as Diploma, so I have to get a higher education levels and to achieve something in my life. As all of us want, I dream of having a fancy car, a nice job and a lovely wife. But nothing come just like that, I have to work to do that.
And that's as my friend Obaid call it "my life in lines". hope you enjoyed reading my profile and thanks for your time.

Emirates Palace Trip

I went to the Emirates Palace at May, 13th, with my classmates and our English teacher Frankie. We went there to see the new project "Masdar City", and the other exhibitions there like Alsaadiyat Island and the arts of Islam.
When we reached the Palace, we were supposed to meet there at the main hall; we started with Masdar City model. When I saw the model and Mrs. Frankie showed how it's going to be, I thought that it was amazing, it was really fibulas how all this designs were built and all the new technology on it and that was great and that's one step for Abu Dhabi to try and show the world that "We are doing something".
After we spent sometime near Masdar City model, we went to see AlSaadiyat project. Before I go there and see what's they are planning to do, all I had in my mind that they are going to make an island that have many towers and it's just like anything else we used to see, but when I saw it, I thought that it's amazing, specially with all the museums.
Finally, we went to see the art of Islam gallery which contains many things that Muslims used to have and use in the past like war armors, swords and so many other equipments that was used in wars during several periods in the past. What I really liked there was the room that had the inventions that Muslims invented in the past.
In the end, I think that the trip was really great and we learn many things when we go and see all of these things rather than just hear about them all the time. I hope we have trips like that again in the future.

"An Inconvenient Truth" reaction

First of all, I thought the movie was kind of boring because I didn’t know what it was about, but when I started to get the movie’s idea and I knew what Al Gore is talking about, I started to know what all these charts and pictures in the movie are about and what they mean.
I was shocked when I saw how the issue is big and that really made me feel that we have to do something, because everybody can make a difference.
I know now that what is happening in the earth is horrible and the biggest problem is all because of us..!
In the movie, they showed us how terrible the global warming issue affects the earth, how fast and huge the effect and its impact.
I think the movie was good and it gave us all the information we need to start and take a step ahead for a green earth with less emissions because we have to make a better earth for the next generation.

AIT summary

The movie starts with a nice quite scene that shows us how the nature is beautiful and how amazing can it be. Al Gore, the ex-vice president of the U.S, is the main character in the movie; he is talking about the global warming issue and its huge impact on earth.
Al Gore starts talking about the earth and shows how it looks from the space and show and explains some things like vegetation, how the earth’s sources are, and how the earth heat procedure happens.
Al Gore talks about what, when and why he started to think seriously about the global warming as an extremely dangerous issue.
When Al Gore was at the Congress he tried to do something but they ignored him after that.
Along with the rising in the carbon emissions, some affects has started to happen like ice glaciers melting in cold areas all over the world and that when scientists compared the ice layers and saw how it used to be and how it is now; they found that the results are shocking and if what they predict is really going to happens, the consequences are going to be fatal for the earth.
Al Gore talks about how CO2 affects the temperature and that causes much damage to the surface and the oceans.
Al Gore talks about a personal tragedy which was the death of his sister and the impact of it on him and what decisions he made after that.
There was a political issue, like the Kyoto protocol which the U.S didn’t agree to sign.
With the increasing of population on earth, more supplies are needed and that mean more logging and the need for more power and many many other things which consume the earth’s supplies.
In the end, he showed us that this is our only home and we have to work to do.