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First Masdar section opens Worthy experiment or elitist playground? 9-26-2010

Rumors of end of Masdar true sustainability gain momentum 8-1-2010
Green Prophet reports; commenter claims contracts have been signed for GAS STATIONS at Masdar City.

• Photo: Merkel fills 'er up at Masdar NG station 5-26-2010

Video: Jurgen Happ of Foster+Partners discusses Masdar design rationale

Lord Foster interview: description of podcars is Dual Mode. 6-29-2010

Cars & congestion gaining upper hand at Masdar. Bloomberg is reporting Masdar's revised master plan is "imminent," and it doesn't look good for PRT -- business seems to be taking precedence over the original goal of ecotech R&D. Masdar official Richard Reynolds: "Having 3,000 pods running around the city would be great, but those were vehicles that couldn't go outside Masdar... So now, maybe we will have electric trains, or electric cars that can be used everywhere." Full story. 6-22-2010

Reports: Masdar not scaling back --Al-Jaber 6-30-2010

MIST's head of research said to quit 6-21-2010

Trouble at solar mill: Management change at Masdar PV could reflect decreasing cost of conventional panels 5-7-2010

Editor's Blog: Masdar City backs away from major goal - making excuses to not do PRT, and allow EV and hybrid cars. 4-27-2010

Excluding electric and hybrid vehicles from Masdar City called a "limitation" of PRT 4-27-2010

• Note: Masdar's Ghneim is wrong when he says other vehicles "would obscure the magnets and confuse the guiding sensors" of 2getthere's CyberCab. NewsCenter's sources say the magnets and sensors can't be externally influenced.

US Department of Energy and Masdar sign clean energy cooperation memorandum of understanding 4-26-2010

Foster re-plans 3-25-2010
New developer Aldar takes over, focus on Masdar Institute construction.

Masdar executives have doubts about PRT ability to work at city-scale; worried about other vehicles being excluded, which is the whole point. 3-16-2010

• Green ambitions shrinking?: Property market sours, may import power 3-17-2010
• "Financial Woes Crimp Celebrated Middle East 'Green City'" 3-17-2010
• Editor's Blog: Changes at Masdar - some perspective

Shakeup: Sultan Al Jaber orders "rethink" 2-28-2010

• "Top execs quit" (Awad, Tassabehji)
• "Review" downplayed

"One touch travel: cyber taxis for UAE" 2getthere's Robert Lohmann interviewed about Masdar PRT. 1-20-2010

Video from the 2010 World Future Energy Summit

Sultan Al Jaber: Geothermal technology cause of delay in Masdar completion 1-18-2010

Masdar City sets its pod cars in motion 1-18-2010

Masdar, the Abu Dhabi Government’s clean energy firm, gave a sneak preview yesterday of what life will be like in its groundbreaking carbon-neutral city when the first residents move in later this year.

Underneath the jumble of cranes and scores of construction workers, the narrow, shaded streets around the Masdar Institute are taking shape, with futuristic electric pod cars already up and running.

Students and faculty will start work in the science labs in May and move into 100 apartments in June.

Press gaggle for Masdar construction
• Photos from Cleantech Group
• Photos from The National (UAE)
• "Work in full swing"
• MIST provost interviewed
• Greentech video- part 1, part 2, Article
• Gulf News video

Masdar City completion pushed back to at least 2020. Challenges called bigger than expected; MIST to open autumn of 2010. 1-4-2010

Masdar returns to CNN - Mohammed Jamjoom reports. 12-14-2009

Masdar - based on a very different dream 12-4-2009

Meet the Mod Pods 12-2-2009

MIT Tech Review: "Why Dubai's Troubles Won't Hurt Masdar" 11-30-2009

"It brings together all the trends we are talking about... renewable energy, reconfiguring the metabolism of cities to enhance efficiency, carbon neutral cities, public transport which is not dependent on fossil fuel and local green innovation" -UN Habitat. 10-13-2009

Masdar PRT Wallpaper 10-13-09

MIST to work with Boeing on 3rd-gen biofuel 10-6-2009

Smart appliances 10-5-2009

Masdar's seeds start to sprout across the world 9-18-2009

The green university at the heart of a living lab 9-10-2009

Head of firm doing Masdar City master plan: PRT being trialled "on-site right now" 9-5-2009

2getthere's Masdar page. Description of fleet for initial segment.

"A no-impact city?" (Forbes)

U of Kansas professor working on Masdar HQ

Masdar Institute welcomes students - official launch Sept. 6

Statement by al Jaber

Design chosen for downtown

BASF named 'preferred supplier' 8-27-09

Masdar to have a Swiss district 8-6-09

Khaled Awad on WBUR's "On Point" (45 min) 8-3-2009

MI (MIST), A Green University (Newsweek)

IRENA won't support nuclear energy - Pelosse. 7-29-09

Abu Dhabi projects raise paradox: "Abu Dhabi's fortune favors the bold" (Christopher Hawthorne, LA Times) 6-28-09

Now, as Dubai struggles to recover from the dramatic collapse of its real-estate market, Abu Dhabi is taking advantage of the downturn to savor a moment in the spotlight... They aim to make this closed, religious, autocratic society a new center for the arts and for green-tech research, and as such raise a series of tricky, potentially intractable questions: Does it still make sense to hire celebrity architects from the West to put a non-Western culture on the global cultural map? Will Abu Dhabi allow the Saadiyat museums to show politically or sexually charged artwork -- and if so, will that openness lead to cracks in the emirate's air-tight political structure? And finally, is it possible for a government to save the planet from ecological damage while neglecting human rights, or even energy-efficiency, at home? ...

Masdar on CNN's Solutions 6-26-09

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Architect/peace activist Sorkin lauds Masdar City 6-4-09. Mr Sorkin is a long-time advocate of public transportation but he has railed against the movement's neo-traditionalism and trend towards uniformity of design.
But he said he was bowled over by Masdar City, the planned carbon-neutral development in Abu Dhabi that will rely entirely on renewable energy. "There is nothing as progressive or as remotely interesting here in the US," he said. "We are so far behind and I'm full of admiration for Masdar."

International Renewable Energy Agency may be based at Masdar
• Would UAE-France partnership "nuclear taint" imperil IRENA?
• Masdar chosen as IRENA headquarters 6-30-09

Masdar 10MW solar farm online, connected to Abu Dhabi grid 6-1-09

Luca Guala interviewed about Masdar PRT 5-21-09

Mission To Masdar: Building bridges to Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
A Seattle leadership mission studies how two smart citistates in the United Arab Emirates are setting the pace in urban development

Green Car Congress talks to Luca Guala about Masdar's PRT 4-29-09

• "The Long View from SAE 2009"

Masdar City launches website: New site describes plans for walkable city environment, facilitated by PRT, freight PRT, LRT, and HSR. See Transport description in "Technology."

Products sold in Masdar City will have carbon footprint labeling

Masdar Institute video 3-2-2009

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