Step by Step 3000. Book Two.

Unit 8. Everybody can help the environment.

Part 1. Warming up.

A. Keywords. organization, protect, conserve, environment, nature, campaign,

movement, climate crisis, waste, climate change, NGO (non-governmental organization), policies,

green building, energy, rehabilitation, natural resources, forests, amphibian assessment, species, solar energy.

Vocabulary. campaign, conserve, wildlife, ultimate, harmony, ongoing, message, landfill, disseminate, counteract,

grassroots, NGO(non-governmental organization), sustainable, transform, energy efficiency, minimize, lessen, emission,

rehabilitation, well-being, natural capital, filter, sequester, amphibian, assessment, toad, salamander, caecilian.

You're going to hear about some green organizations.

Listen carefully and fill in the blanks with what you here.

1. Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organization that acts to change attitudes and behaviour,

to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace.

2. WWF, World Wildlife Foundation, was born into the world in the 1961.

Its ultimate goal is to build a future where people live in harmony with nature.

3. SOS, is the ongoing massaging campaign and larger movement behind live earth.

The massage of SOS is that everyone, everywhere can and must answer the call to solve the climate crisis.

4. Green School Project, is an organization that help schools across the US with their budgets in order to reduce the amount of waste that goes to the landfill.

5. On December 10th, 2007, the inter-governmental panel on climate change and Al Gore Jr. were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change

and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.

6. Friends of the Earth International is the world's largest grassroots environmental network, uniting 70 national member groups,

and some 5,000 local activist groups on every continent.

It campaigns on today's most urgent environmental and social issues.

7. EEB, European Environmental Bureau, is a non-governmental organization with 143 member organizations in 31 countries.

Its specific mission is to promote environmental policies and sustainable policies on the European Union Level.

8. The Surfrider Foundation, is a non-profit grassroots organization, dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world's oceans, waves and beaches, founded in 1984, in California.

It now maintains over 50,000 members worldwide.

9. USGBC, The U.S Green Building Council, is a non-profit organization, committed to transforming the way buildings and communities are designed, built and operated,

enabling environmentally and socially responsible healthy and prosperous environment that improves the quality of life.

10. Founded in 1977, the Alliance to save Energy is a non-profit organization that supports energy efficiency and advocates energy efficiency policies that minimize costs to society and individual consumers,

and that lessen greenhouse gas emissions and their impact on the global climate.

11. The Earth Organization is a grassroots international non-profit, conservation and environmental organization,

with new solutions, committed to the creative, responsible rehabilitation of Planet Earth and the plant and animal kingdoms.

12. TWP, Trees, Water and People is a non-profit organization founded in 1998,

helping communities protect, conserve and manage the natural resources upon which their long-term well-being depends.

13. American Forests is America's oldest non-profit citizens' conservation organization founded in 1875.

It works to protect, restore and enhance the natural capital of trees and forests.

Healthy forests filter water, remove air pollution, sequester carbon and provide homes for wildlife.

14. GAA, the Global Amphibian Assessment, is the first ever comprehensive assessment of the conservation status of the world 5,918 known species of frogs, toads, salamanders and caecilians.

Almost 600 scientists from 60 countries have now contributed to the project.

15. ASES, the American Solar Energy Society, founded in 1954, is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the use of solar energy, energy efficiency and other sustainable technologies in the US.

B. Keywords. food, water, bottle, products, petrol, public transportation, wood, aerosols,

conservation issues, rubbish, energy, nature reserves.

Vocabulary. organic, unleaded, ivory, species, aerosol, CFC, reserve.

You're going to hear a list of 19 practical ideas, all of them can help the environment. Supply the missing words.

Buying fresh food that doesn't need a lot of packaging.

Trying to buy organic fruits and vegetables from farmers who don't use chemicals.

Save as much water as possible.

Use products that won't stay forever in the earth or sea when you throw them away.

Use bottles more than once or take them to a bottle bank.

Try to save paper, also buy and use recycled paper as often as possible.

Avoid throw-away products.

Make sure that your family and friends use unleaded petrol in their cars.

Don't buy products, fur or ivory for example, made from rare or protected species.

Use public transportation as often as possible.

If you're buying wood, don't choose hardwood from tropical rainforests.

Look for aerosols which haven't got any CFCs in them.

Don't buy hamburgers or pizzas in plastic boxes which contained CFCs.

Use batteries as little as possible.

It takes 50 times more energy to make them than they produce.

Don't leave on electric lights, TV, hi-fi etc., if you're not using them.

Find out more about conservation issues in your area, are there any wood or fields in danger, for example?

Try to throw away at least 25% less rubbish.

Help old people in your area to insulate their homes.

This saves energy and helps to keep them warm in winter.

Visit any local nature reserves or zoos and talk to the people who run them.