{"id":2697,"date":"2008-02-12T00:04:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T04:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/12\/zero-waste-cutting-edge-city-experiment\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:56:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:56:09","slug":"zero-waste-cutting-edge-city-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/12\/zero-waste-cutting-edge-city-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero-waste cutting edge city experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/foster_masdar_1.jpg' title='Masdar City project'><img src='http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/foster_masdar_1.jpg' alt='Masdar City project' width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Arab_Emirates\">United Arab Emirates<\/a> began to build on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masdaruae.com\">Masdar City project<\/a>, which will be a zero-carbon, zero-waste city using cutting-edge solar power technology in the middle of the deserts of Abu Dhabi. <\/p>\n<p>Finished by 2015 this city will be inhabited by 50,000 people and a showcase of how cities will look like in the future. <\/p>\n<p>Critics say that the 22 billion dollars used by this project should rather be invested in the &#8220;greening&#8221; of existing cities. Nevertheless this project will be an important information and experience hub &#8211; not only for the building companies &#8211; but for everyone interested in sustainability and environmental issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heise.de\/tp\/blogs\/2\/103254\">Via Telepolis<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/innovate\/content\/feb2008\/id20080211_503795.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_innovation+%2Bamp%3B+design\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates began to build on the Masdar City project, which will be a zero-carbon, zero-waste city using cutting-edge solar power technology in the middle of the deserts of Abu Dhabi. Finished by 2015 this city will be inhabited by 50,000 people and a showcase of how cities will look like in the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/12\/zero-waste-cutting-edge-city-experiment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zero-waste cutting edge city experiment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8306,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions\/8306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}