My Profile

Let’s talk about myself. My name is Rashed Saeed Salem al Maamari. I’m 19 years old. I was born in Abu Dhabi. Now I live in Al Rahba city which is about 50 Km away from Abu Dhabi. I have lived with my parents in Al Rahba since 1996. We are 15 brothers and sisters and I’m number 13 on the list.

M y Childhood

I had a wonderful and happy childhood, because my parents took care of me very well. Also my brothers and sisters liked to play with me, but some times they made me like their toy. I remember one day, my mother told me that when I was two years old, my mother was cooking the dinner, and she heard my brothers laughing in my room. When she came to my room, she saw my brothers throwing me from one to other like a ball! My mother was shocked and then she started screaming to stop my brothers. Thank goodness, I was saved. Because if she hadn’t came, something bad would have happened to me. When my mother told me that I’m going start going school, I was very excited but also a little bit worried, because I didn’t know what I’m going to do there and many other things. The first day was very interesting, because I was surprised at number of children in the school. I met new people that I had never seen. After few days, the school became my favored place to go. I remember one day when some of us did well in a quiz, the teacher sent us to the headmaster room to get gifts! The headmaster has two big boxes which were full of different types of toys and then he told us to take one toy that we wanted. What a nice prize for hard work.

M y teenage

My teenage years were a special period in my life, because I become more aware about things in this world. Also I had new interests like computer and reading. I’m not very interested in sports. For example football, l believe that football is the most popular sport in UAE and almost every one is charmed by this sport but I’m not! That makes all my friends wondering why. Many people think that football is wonderful and exciting, but I think sometimes it is dangerous and waste of time. For example, instead of wasting your time watching football match you can read a useful book that will help you. But on the other hand, I like having trips with my friends, playing games and many other things like any other teenager.

M y Travels

I rarely going out of UAE, sometimes I go to Oman to visit my uncle and cousins. Also I visit Africa once with my father. I would like to travel more and to many different countries to discover their culture, customs and see new things. Traveling makes the person know more about this world, understand other culture and have a lot of fun. I remember one time when I was in Oman with my uncle, I went climbing with my cousins to the near mountain. When we reached the top, it begun to rain heavily and quickly we found a cave to hide. We were cold and starving, because we were stuck there all the day. On the next day we came back home and my uncle punished us by staying at home for a week.

My Interests

In my free time, I have many things to do like reading. I like reading stories and comics for fun. Also I read science and computer books. It’s very interesting and useful. I love pets very much, that’s why I have a cat and aquarium with cute fish inside. They are like my friends. I have a lot of fun when I feed the fishes and play with my cat. They add happiness to my life. The most thing I’m interest in is computer, not playing video games but designing. I like designing with programs like Photoshop and Flash. With these programs I can turn things in my imagination to real things and very beautiful. That makes me creative and feels happy and also it is very enjoyable.

Something that has influenced me

My view of the world and life changed massively when I visited Africa. I went there once with my father to visit his old friend. His friend lived on Pemba Island which is near another famous island called Zanzibar. We went there when I was 16 years old. The island is like paradise, full of trees and plants and that is why people called it “The Green Island“. Although the place looks great, the lifestyle is totally different. They are really paupers. The airport was very small and it is as big as medium sized primary school. The town is nice, but very small and dirty. Also it very crowded and some people live in the street! Out side of the town, things are a little better. There is the wonderful nature; every where in green, a lot of monkeys and birds and the pure air. On the other hand, there is no electricity at all! Also there is little transport. People makes fire to cook. All that made me realize how lucky I am to live in the UAE. It is huge difference between hearing and seeing poverty. I don’t complain any more when the electricity in shutdown, because I know that there are some people living without electricity. Also I don’t get angry if don’t live in big villa because there are others living in the street. The trip to Africa changed my life.

My Future

In the future I would like to be architect, because I love designing very much. I enjoy a lot when I design some thing like building or bridges that will help people and make their life easier. That is why I like playing designing games. It is like practicing for a future career. Also I would like to have good wife who can understand me and live happily together.

An Inconvenient Truth review

An Inconvenient Truth is a movie made by the vice president of the United State Al Gore. It talks about the dangers facing our earth especially global warming with the results and facts. Also he explained that the main cause of global warming is carbon dioxide which produced by the human activities like factories and different vehicles. Those gases affect the earth temperature.

In addition he showed the relation between the amount of carbon dioxide and the increase of the temperature over the years. Also he talked effects of global warming like the increasing in seawater level as result of ice melting from the polar and the unexpected natural disasters

Masdar city

Masdar city is the world's first zero-carbon, zero-waste, car-free city. The budget for master city will be about $ 22 billion. It will take eight years to build. 50,000 people will be able to live there. Masdar located near to the Abu Dhabi International Airport. The point is to reducing emissions by Masdar City and having clean development mechanism. Masdar city will be the first city for not using fossil fuel and gasses for power and use renewable energy like solar and wind instead.

Masdar also aims to prove that it is possible to live in limitation and improve the quality of people's lives. Masdar city will allow people to walk or to use bicycle for transportation. Most of the building and working places will be near each other. The city will be shaded in such a way to keep the city cool and clean from dust and sand storm.

Masdar’s green dream is not for all - keywords and bits

Keywords:
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1-Development

2-Sustainability

3-Efficiency

4-Recourses

5-Lifestyle

6-Hyper-efficient

7-Technology

8-Greening

9-Swathes

10- Alternative energy


The Bits:
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1- City that uses every bit of its available resources.

2- Electricity and water do nothing to change behaviour patterns.

3- The city of 50000 will cut its energy usage by 50-70 per cent.

4- City will be surrounded by acres of photovoltaic solar panels and wind turbine.

5- The world can live without using too much energy.

6- The resources are extremely cheap.

7- Reduce emissions while lowering energy costs for the city.

8- Recyclable rubbish will be run through a gasification machine.

9- Transportation is a major source of global warming pollution.

10- Public transport and waste recycling are not existent.

Renewable energy solution

Renewable energy is the natural clean sources of energy like the sun and wind.The first solution is Renewable Energy Standards. Another solution is Solar and Wind Installations by use this energy to produce our electricity and water.

Energy efficiency solution

Energy efficiency means using less energy by using a better technology to generate the power for the city. It has several solutions like making new buildings more energy efficient. Another solution is use the light emitting diode (LED) because it turns off if there enough lights so it save the energy. Also Cities can benefit from energy efficient by a system that combines heat and power.

Green vehicle solutions

Green vehicle solutions are the technology exists today to reduce global warming pollution from cars, trucks and SUVs. People should green their cities with more trees and use hybrid gas electric and other vehicles that go farther on a gallon of gas. Also Governments have to encourage people to buy hybrid vehicles by providing them free parking and lower registration fees and taxes. In addition, they can change the old buses with new buses work with hybrid-electric diesel or natural gas which are friendlier with environment