One Planet Living and Masdar City

If everyone lived like an average North American we would need five planets.

If everyone lived like an average European we would need three planets.

If everyone lived like an average Emirati we would need 11 planets.

Our global footprint grew by 150% between 1961 and 2003. It is now 25% above the planet's biological capacity to support life on earth.

• Explain the ten guiding principles using your own words.

1. Zero Carbon: Start to use renewable power that not produce CO2.
2. Zero Waste: Using the material the can be recycle, compositing and also that could be re-use.
3. Sustainable Transport: Using the hybrid for all type of vehicles and also the people should decline number of traveling.
4. Local and Sustainable material: Being using of local materials will help the pollution environment be increase.
5. Local and Sustainable food: They should to start to have their food from their earth.
6. Sustainable Water: It must found and have many sources of natural water to supply for the city.
7. Natural Habitats and Wildlife: Being to save the wildlife and natural life of environment from changing of our lifestyle.
8. Culture and Heritage: Because of globalization the local identity will be loss so they should be save their history culture.
9. Equity and fair-trade: The people who living in the city, they should be have income high level to live inside the city.
10. Health and Happiness: when there is increasing of income for the human they will be more healthy and happy.
    

• Which principles do you think will be difficult for Masdar City to maintain?
  

- Local and Sustainable food.

What are the three goals of the One Planet Living programme?

1- Build a world-wide network of One Planet Living Communities and other exemplary projects to demonstrate One Planet Living in action.
2- Establish One Planet Living Centres in each One Planet Living community as a focus for education.
3- Promote the imperative for One Planet Living and its guiding principles to catalyse change with governments, business and individuals.

• Masdar is one of the Emerging One Planet communities, where are the others?

Japan, USA, France and Australia.

• Where are the Officially Endorsed One Planet Communities?

Only Japan.