21 Mar UT students discuss their work in Sweden & MASDAR, the carbon free city being built in Abu Dhabi on Shades of Green Energy today

 This Thursday’s guests on Shades of Green Energy include UT students Stephanie Matyas, Alex Breckel and Andrew Tabije who will be talking about their work in Sweden and MASDAR, the carbon free city being built in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.

Stephanie recently participated in a Masters Program semester dedicated to Renewable Energy studies. During her studies she was elected team leader of 24 international students in a Renewable Energy project for Vattenfall Energy utilizing thermal energy storage to solve the district heating demand of Uppsala Sweden.

Stephanie and the others will tell us about MASDAR, a community that will turn the desert’s greatest environmental challenges, the sun and wind, into the city’s greatest assets to help make it a zero carbon, zero waste community.  The city is designed to cover about 2.3 square miles and will be home to about 50,000 people and about 1000 businesses  Mass transit and personal rapid transit systems will replace cars that will be banned.

The project is supported by the global conservation charity World Wide Fund for Nature and the sustainability group BioRegional which have endorsed MASDAR as an official One Planet Living Community.

The discussion will cover more information on the project so you’ll want to tune in to hear more about the project details for a hugely interesting talk about communities of the future!