Blog Project- Cool Cities

Since the start of the industrial revolution, there have been some problems associated with 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 to replace our own. By one half (50%) we will have to decrease the amount of carbon dioxide emitted into the air to live within the capacity of a single earth.

In Japan during the last 30 years GDP (Gross Domestic Product) has gone up 100 percent while energy efficiency has increase 37 percent and oil consumption has decrease 8 percent. About 90 percent of carbon dioxide emitted into the air comes from building and transportation. Cool City was building by SPCJ 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.