Africa’s Very Own Green City

Similar to Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, the world’s first carbon neutral city, Africa could be set to acquire its own ‘green’ city.

Although it would be on a much smaller scale than Masdar, American architect Gary Heathcote is designing a city in Ghana. RE and recycling will be used to create the city with sewage managed by recycling water and the sludge will go for agriculture instead of polluting the ocean. The recaptured water will be reused through filtration and storm channel systems.

Heathcote and his team will use desalination technigues, but plan on incorporating the latest technology that will be less energy intensive without returning the brine back into the ocean. The project, dubbed Millennium City, will be fully operational without the use of fossil fuels. Solar water heaters will be used for power generation as well as hydrogen that has been separated from ocean water.

In addition, Heathcote is looking into a cost-effective and convenient public transit for the city’s residents in order to decrease the amount of carbon-dioxide producing automobiles. The city will also be built to standards of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, an internationally recognized green building certification system.

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