TDIC

Abu Dhabi is one of the cities that witnessing many new projects in the construction field. Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC) is the company that organizing all of these new buildings.
However, there are some good projects and other awful. I am going to write about the best and worst of TDIC projects.


In my opinion, I think Qasr Al Sarab is the best project because of several reasons. One is the location of the project which is been built in the middle of Liwa desert. I think it is the best place to relax rest and have a break from daily work in a quiet atmosphere. Also, the design of the retreat is enough to visit it. It looks like an old Arabic castle which might give you the feeling of living in the past. Another reason is the facilities in the retreat centre like the luxury health spa, conference centre, adjoining excursion and tented villages, a children’s playground and an observatory from where guests can monitor the awe-inspiring Liwa night skies which are considered as 5 star facilities.

On the other hand, TDIC have some worthless projects. I think “Abu Dhabi Creek Business Resort” is the worst project of them and that’s for some reasons. First are the facilities which are the same in all other projects and by that I don’t think you can enjoy doing something new or special there. Another reason is the design of the villas in the project which is really terrible and doesn’t have any style in designing.

In summary, what I wrote is just a personal opinion. And as I see it Qasr Al Sarab deserves to be the best project of TDIC because of the reasons I had mentioned.

TDIC is a big company with many nice and new projects. I think soon we are going to see cool buildings made by them.

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Cool City Comments

Good Adaptations:

1) Hybrid cars: This kind of cars recharged their energy by storage system, this adaptation consider as one of the best because its banned the burning of the cars oil which will reduced the carbon dioxide proportion on the air. This adaptation is an extremely useful alternative solution.

2) Solar powered plant farms: This adaptation used for providing the plants with energy which came from a connection with a solar powered machine.

3) Public transportations: The Light Rail Transit is of those Public transportations which factorized in the cool cities. These transportations used to reduce the percentage of greenhouse gases.


Bad Adaptations:

1) Complicated Towers: the design technology which provided with natural lights, water and being comfortable with the gulf regions climate.

2) The Cost: This city is too costly because it required a high quality features and options to free this city from carbon dioxide.

3) Water Shortage: This city is in fact an island which surrounded with water and that is rare.

My Carbon Footprint: Problems & Solutions

What is carbon footprint? It's a measure method that illustrates how much the human can affects the environment because of the activities in stead of greenhouse gases. The carbon footprint also measured capacity of carbon dioxide that we factorized it.

From this website http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/ that calculates the carbon footprint, I found that my footprint is 4.50 and this is a very high level because it is dangerous level which is harmful for environment. Now I will outline the reasons that consists my carbon footprint and I will mention the solutions to reduce and banned my carbon footprint.

There are several factors that can contain my carbon footprint level. The major factor is my traveling by airplane which burned a massive size of carbon dioxide. The next main problem is that I spent more than five hours every day driving my car from home to college and driving all over Abu Dhabi. Another issue is eating meat and fish and the difficulties to be a vegetarian because I want gain some weight.


As a solution to reduce my carbon footprint is try to change my way of transportations as much as possible, from cars and airplanes to bicycle or even walking. Another solution is to reduce the time of driving my car in the street and try to find something else to do like reading. The last solution but not the least is to change my food system to a healthy diet at least because it's hard to me to be vegetarian.

To conclude, the solutions to reduce my carbon footprint are a lot, but the problem is to apply these solutions to the real life.

An Inconvenient truth - Summary

The former presidential candidate Al Gore presents a documentary movie about "global warming". Al Gore collected his information's by traveling around the world to let the people know what are the risks of this problem is. He talks about how people are the main reason to increase the danger of this issue; he also machined some solution for it.

Al Gore present many reasons to cause global warming, first one is increasing in the carbon dioxide level, which trap heat in the atmosphere and that will rise the temperature of the earth.
With the increase of the temperature the oceans will be warmer and that will lead to create hurricanes like Katrina. Also with the temperature rise it will lead to melt the North Pole ice and that will raise the sea level which can floods many coastal cities. Another problem is changing in the climate all over the world when the water of oceans and melted ice mixed together.

Al Gore also suggested several solutions for the global warming issue. The first one is planting green trees (vegetation), which will reduce the carbon dioxide and keep the atmosphere clean. Second, try to use renewable energy sources which do not pollute our earth.
Finally, the countries from all over the world have to step together to face this major problem.

To conclude, every one of us must help in this problem because we live in the same planet, all countries must co-operate in addition to solve or even reduce the causes of global warming.