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A Green Utopia: World's First Zero-Carbon & Zero-Waste City

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:53:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Abu Dhabi: Masdar City aims to be the world's greenest city....and the most sustainable city.

The Masdar development is a 6 km sq, car-free “walled-city” scheme. A challenging design that promises to question conventional urban wisdom at a fundamental level. Masdar promises to set new benchmarks for the sustainable city of the future

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WWF and the government of Abu Dhabi today launched a Sustainability tStrategy to deliver the world’s greenest city

Masdar City will be the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste, car-free city, meeting or exceeding a set of stringent sustainability goals established under the “One Planet Livingâ„¢” programme established by WWF

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These targets are to be achieved by the time the Masdar City is completed and fully functioning in 2012.

ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy

ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill

SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city

SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products

SUSTAINABLE FOOD

SUSTAINABLE WATER

HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated

EQUITY AND FAIR TRADE Fair wages and working conditions for all workers

HEALTH AND HAPPINESS Facilities and events for every demographic group

CULTURE AND HERITAGE

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Tags: utopia, green, city, masdar, sustainable, wwf

Why Wait? Convert Your Car Into An Electric Car

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:51:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Electro has been converting gas cars to electric for decades.

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(www.electroauto.com)

Instead of waiting until you buy a hybrid to reduce your eco-footprint, why not make your vehicle electric now?

A century ago, electric cars outnumbered gas cars on the road. But then cheaper gas cars made them obsolete.

where's the clean, green, electric driving machine? You're sitting in it right now.

converting a car right now: You can do it today. And you have been able to do it for the past 20 years.

Electro Automotive. Since 1979, the company has sold kits that can turn any car -- from a Rolls Royce to a VW Rabbit -- into an electric vehicle.

put more electric cars on the road than General Motors has

From 1996 to 2000, General Motors sold 1,100 of their revolutionary EV-1 electric cars. By 2006, GM recalled and destroyed almost every one.

Kits average about $7,000

the motors last forever and are up to 90 percent less polluting

Beats buying a new car.

Tags: electric car, electro, kit, convert, car, gas

Autoholics Anonymous

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:38:05 GMT

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Clip Source: www.autoholics.org

I'm an autoholic

You or a loved one has succumbed to the seemingly warm embrace of the automobile, only to find that you cannot live without it.

The signs were slow in coming.

You are a car addict.

the support of other 'recovering autoholics' to guide you on your path to finding your two feet again

responsibility for our current mess - noise and pollution, death and injury, auto-blight and urban sprawl - does not rest chiefly on the shoulders of you, the individual driver

the victim of a powerful and self-serving transport industry that has taken advantage of our natural desire to sit

Take back your feet

Tags: autoholic, car, walk, automobile, support