Reflection about the course

I will discuss the tools I learned and the ideas I learned. I think that the course was brilliant and the reason is simple, my teacher and serious working. First of all, it was new experience for me using new tools like blogs and so on. But I worked hard to find out those tools with my teacher's help and my friend's advice. I learnt how to use voice thread and it is a nice tool that makes your idea become much better with all these pictures around. I was having some problems with the way of putting tasks in the blog and MLA style but the teacher helped me a lot achieving these goals. In addition, I learned how to use the databases that has a lot of useful information.

In terms of global warming, honestly I wasn’t know anything about it but the facts had shocked me. The rising of CO2 in the air is causing a big damage to our earth. Not only that, the human is already increasing the problem through the daily activities. Obviously, we keep continue our life without thinking of our generations. So, we have to at least saving our earth by doing even the small things. Overall, I benefit a lot from doing this course and I hope to get a lot of similar courses the following semesters.

Protecting our environment

Our planet is in a serious situation. A lot of problems are mentioned everyday and every night. Problems such as pollution, acid rain, waste, rainforests, the animal's wildlife and last but not least the global warming. We know the fact that human is already suffering from these problems and what is worst is all of these problems are human-made problems. To live a sustainable urban life, we need to learn how we use our natural resources like air, freshwater, forests …. and so on. As a population of the world increase, the threats are also increasing. So if we need our generations to live a happy life, we need to do something about these threats or we could just expect the following consequences. The following site is to know what are the problems and the solutions in terms of those threats.

For more details, please visit the following site.

http://www.ypte.org.uk/environmental/environment-how-can-you-help-protect-it-/81

Tundra's main problems and solutions

There are unlimited causes of global warming. Each cause has its affect on the environment. One of the unknown causes is tundra. Let's introduce the topic with the definition of tundra. Tundra is an area which contains vegetation and trees and snow on mountains. ( Benninghoff ) . It also contains animals, microorganisms, plants, shrubs, mosses, grasses and flowers. It is basically located in the north of regions. It has incredible damage that anyone can't believe. Tundra is melting and according to statistics, approximately 50 billion tons of carbon dioxide held in a frozen area in tundra and now it's becoming a source of global warming. (Global Warming: The Causes). The following details will explain the facts of tundra's main damage from climate change and the solutions that might be provided. .



Let's firstly start with the problems of tundra. When the frozen soil melts, the organic contents start to decay causing greenhouse gasses in the air. Tundra becomes an important part of accumulating CO2 in the air. Studies also show that warm temperatures have changed the place into a net of CO2 that penetrates atmosphere. The stranger matter is that the role of history says that Tundra was completely environmental but now things have changed to the opposite side (Global Warming). Another problem that carbon dioxide which comes from tundra will cause air pollution. That will definitely affect the animals whose living there and their foods. (Global Warming).One more problem is that buildings and roads push pressure to the area causing it to melt. (Global Warming)



After looking at the problem side, now let's turn our consideration to the solution side. Apparently a lot will think that there is nothing to do about it but here is the thing. The first solution is that we could protect tundra areas to reduce the human impact (Tundra Threat). Another solution is minimizing the roads and the mining in the area of tundra. One more solution is to reduce the tourism and to establish rules like respecting the local cultures. A significant solution is to turn to another energy that reduces the human-made global warming (Tundra Threats, Tundra Species - National Geographic). If we slow down the rate of carbon emissions, we will slow down the temperature increases that cause tundra to melt.





In my point of view, tundra is causing a big damage to the atmosphere. Well, according to statistics I have already mentioned, if this is just one source of global warming and it causes 50 billion tons of CO2, imagine the impact of other sources. I believe if this continues to happen, it will be a disaster in the upcoming years, leaving our generations with our problems.

Works cited





Benninghoff, William. "Tundra." http://0-www.accessscience.com.library.hct.ac.ae/content.aspx?id=714600.

"Global Warming: The Causes." EcoBridge. 24 May 2009 http://www.ecobridge.org/content/g_cse.htm.

Tundra Threats, Tundra Species - National Geographic." Environment Facts, Environment Science, Global Warming, Natural Disasters, Ecosystems, Green Living - National Geographic. 24 May 2009 http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/habitats/tundra-threats.html.

Cool cities

A cool city is a way to achieve the sustainable urban life. It shows the ways of reducing the amount of CO2. It contains of business public zone, the residential zone, the resort zone and last but not least the cultural sports zone. Modern cities have problems and the cool cities are the way to solve this problem. Let's have a look at both of them.


Modern cities cause a big damage towards the increasing of CO2. The main problem of cities is buildings and transportation which is about 90% of increasing carbon emissions. Another problem is that residents in modern cities depend on cars and coals a lot. One more problem is the use of energy in homes (Which U.S. Cities Contribute Most to Global Warming?: Scientific American)


Let's have a look at the advantages that cool cities provide. The $22 billion on Masdar enterprise which is a cool city will be existed in UAE (Masdar). Significant advantage is Hybrid cars and solar ships. Further explanation is that those innovations will save the earth by not allowing the burning of cars oil. Another advantage is in terms of public transportation like monorail station. One more advantage is light rail transit station.



In my point of view, I believe that a cool city is a big movement to protect us from global warming but it’s costly. Some will say, no matter how much it costs, the most important factor is protecting our generations and our future!! So I think it's a nice idea.





Work cited


"Cool ideas to beat the heat - The National Newspaper." Home Page - The National Newspaper. 30 Apr. 2009 .
"Masdar." Home Page - The National Newspaper. 06 May 2009 .

Welcome to MASDAR. 30 Apr. 2009 .
"Which U.S. Cities Contribute Most to Global Warming?: Scientific American." Science News, Articles and Information Scientific American. 06 May 2009 .

"YouTube - Masdar Initiative - Worlds First 100% Carbon Free Community." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. 30 Apr. 2009 .