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    The uncontrolled growth of population and industry is causing widespread pollution that is damaging to ecosystems and human health. In response, many organizations are working to address these issues and reduce environmental impact. One proposed solution is the development of self-sustainable cities that allow people to live with a high quality of life while reducing their footprint. Masdar City in Abu Dhabi is a prototype that aims to be fully powered by renewable energy like solar and wind power and have its own transportation system. While such self-sustainable cities face economic challenges, smaller examples like Earthships in New Mexico use materials like tires and bottles in walls to also achieve self-sustainability.

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    The uncontrolled growth of population and industry is causing widespread pollution that is damaging to ecosystems and human health. In response, many organizations are working to address these issues and reduce environmental impact. One proposed solution is the development of self-sustainable cities that allow people to live with a high quality of life while reducing their footprint. Masdar City in Abu Dhabi is a prototype that aims to be fully powered by renewable energy like solar and wind power and have its own transportation system. While such self-sustainable cities face economic challenges, smaller examples like Earthships in New Mexico use materials like tires and bottles in walls to also achieve self-sustainability.

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    The uncontrolled growth of population and industry is causing widespread pollution that is damaging to ecosystems and human health. In response, many organizations are working to address these issues and reduce environmental impact. One proposed solution is the development of self-sustainable cities that allow people to live with a high quality of life while reducing their footprint. Masdar City in Abu Dhabi is a prototype that aims to be fully powered by renewable energy like solar and wind power and have its own transportation system. While such self-sustainable cities face economic challenges, smaller examples like Earthships in New Mexico use materials like tires and bottles in walls to also achieve self-sustainability.

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    The uncontrolled growth of population and industry is causing widespread pollution that is damaging to ecosystems and human health. In response, many organizations are working to address these issues and reduce environmental impact. One proposed solution is the development of self-sustainable cities that allow people to live with a high quality of life while reducing their footprint. Masdar City in Abu Dhabi is a prototype that aims to be fully powered by renewable energy like solar and wind power and have its own transportation system. While such self-sustainable cities face economic challenges, smaller examples like Earthships in New Mexico use materials like tires and bottles in walls to also achieve self-sustainability.

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    Alan Eduardo Martnez Telles

    Self-sustainable city
    The uncontrolled growth of the population, factories, transportation are causing
    pollution of water, air, ground and others. They impact us with consequences like
    damage different ecosystems where plants and animals live together, global
    warming, deforestation and health damage. We are conscious about this situation
    in our world, and we have created some alternatives of solution to decrease the
    impact in the environment.
    Now we have a majority of organization like Greenpeace, WWF, PNUMA dedicated
    to reduce the pollution problems and to attempt to give to the population a
    message about care for the planet. A new proposal is a Self-sustainable city that
    can help to fight with those kind of problems.
    A Self-sustainable city is a place where people can live with a high quality of life, it
    can reduce the impact in the environment and with itself government but at the
    same time we can found natural open spaces, reduced waste, lower crime, sense
    of community, clean air and water quality, and environmental diversity.
    Nowadays we have designed prototypes of self-sustainable cities around the world
    we can see those of them in countries like New Zealand, Spain, Scotland,
    Denmark, United Arab Emirates,etc. In every one of them we look a goal in
    common creating a new way of life more ecological, more efficient and cleaner.
    A special place in the world that could be a fact in the future is Masdar city located
    in middle of the desert in Abu Dhabi, it was designed by Foster + Partners and
    announced since 2006 like project not only of self-sustainable city but also friendly
    with the environment and high technology and it could be finished in 2021
    approximately.
    Masdar city was designed to benefit any way of energy (wind, solar, etc.) because
    in everyplace of this city we can see solar panels which help to give energy for
    personal consumption, water desalination, transportation and dehumidification and
    cooling, all with the idea of not relying on oil but we can also see that the air
    currents are benefiting for air conditioner.
    It has a lot of ways to be comfortable in this city, it has a special characteristics for
    example if you want to travel from the one place to another, you dont have to drive
    anymore because it has itself transportation known as light train that travel across
    the city in seven minutes, in addition Itll work twenty four hours of the day and Itll
    be connected with airport.
    All these characteristics of that self-sustainable city sounds good because it is a
    really example of high technology uses in the environment but different economic
    problems dont allow to finish it.

    Alan Eduardo Martnez Telles

    But not all bad news, in the south of United States near of Mexico we have a kind
    of self-sustainable home named Earth ships that they are located in New Mexico, it
    has the ability that be self-sustainable due to its solar panels.
    Also they have its walls are made with old tires, bottles and cans mixed with
    concrete that help to be more ecological.
    We can mentioned a lot of examples of sustainable place but the reality is that the
    care and respect in the environment begins with everyone and it should be leaned
    to future generations.
    Right now there are campaigns, programs and invitations to be more conscious our
    population and that way creates respect in the environment, and reduce troubles of
    pollution, global warming and health, and maybe we could be achieved to increase
    the mortality rate in the population, and have a better place for future generations
    with high quality of air, less pollution and cleaner water.

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