General Electric and Mubadala Development have just announced a multi-billion dollar partnership that will give a huge financial boost to a plan to develop a clean-energy walled city in the United Arab Emirates.
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Plan To Build The World’s First Zero-Waste, Zero-Carbon City Gets Financial Backing
(via cleantechnica.com)
Submitted by arielh on Tue, 2008-07-29 19:12. | Tags: business | abu dhabi | carbon neutral | ge
One Day All Cities Will Be Built Like This? A Roundtable Discussion on Masdar City
(via www.treehugger.com)
Submitted by jessefox82 on Tue, 2008-03-04 16:29. | Tags: architecture | abu dhabi | ecocities | middle east
Video: Masdar, City of the Future
(via video.energypolicytv.com)
Abu Dhabi announces an initial investment of US$15 billion during the opening ceremony of the World Future Energy Summit (WFES), themost ambitious sustainability program launched by a government. It will finance projects targeting solar, wind and hydrogenpower, carbon reduction and management, sustainable development, education, manufacturing as well as research and development.
Submitted by EPTV on Wed, 2008-02-06 21:04. | Tags: design | abu dhabi | carbon | cities | CO2 | environment | Hydrogen | recycling | renewable | solar | sustainability | urban | video | water | wind
