Green by name, green by nature
By Elizabeth Eyre (March 2008 Issue)
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Last month, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) embarked on perhaps the most ambitious environmental project ever undertaken – the construction of the world’s first zero-carbon city.
When it is finished eight years from now, Masdar City will be home to 50,000 people and will be run almost entirely on renewable solar energy. Its residents will live and work in low-energy buildings and will travel around the two-and-a-half-square-mile development in pods running on magnetic tracks.
Water will be provided through a solar-powered desalination plant. The city is expected to need a quarter of the energy normally required by a community of its size and its water needs will be 60 per cent lower.
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