Environmental quotes

GREEN HABITS

YOUR SURROUNDINGS

Have a whole-class discussion on your neighbourhood environment. Cover the questions:

What things make your environment attractive/unattractive?

Are there enough recreation spaces nearby?

Are you concerned about air pollution in your neighbourhood?

What negative effects do work spaces have?

What can be done to improve the neighbourhood?

Do you think our local officials are doing enough to protect the envi­ronment?

1. What can you do to help the environment? Here's a list of 24practical ideas. Read them and tick those you stick to.

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

2. Try to buy 'organic' fruit and vegetables from farmers who don't use chemi­cals.

3. Look for food and other products which come from Third World countries.

4. Save as much water as possible.

5. Find out more about Green organisations in your area.

6. Write letters to the government in your country about Green problems which worry you.

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

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

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

10 Avoid 'throw-away' products.

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

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

13 Use public transport as often as possible.

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

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

16 Try to eat a healthier diet. Avoid too much fat or sugar.

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

18 Use batteries as little as possible. It takes 50 times more energy to make them than they produce.

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

20 Take aerobic exercise at least three times per week.

21 Find out more about conservation issues in your area. Are there any woods, fields, etc, in danger, for example?

22 Try to throw away at least 25% less rubbish.

23 Help old people in your area to insulate their homes. This saves energy and helps to keep them warm in winter.

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

2. Select three ideas and survey at least five students in your class to find out their "green " habits.

3. Share your findings with the rest of the class.

1. Read the quotations. Which of them appeals to you most?

What does this quote imply?

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Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

Chief Seattle

This we know. The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected.

Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Chief Seattle

The "boundless' blue sky, the ocean which gives us breath and pro­tects us from the endless black and death, is but an infinitesimally thin film. How dangerous it is to threaten even the smallest part of this gossa­mer covering, this conserver of life.

Vladimir Shatcdov

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and forestall. He will end up by destroying the Earth. Albert Schweitzer

The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the con­tamination of air, rivers and sea with dangerous and even lethal chemicals.

Rachel Carson

The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.

Indian Proverb

The greatness of a nation can bejudged by the way its animals are treated.

Mohandas Gandhi

In a tree dies, plant another in its place.

Carolus Linnaeus, 1750

Conservation is like freedom. It can only be maintained by constant vigilance.

H.R.H. Prince Phylyp, Duke of Edinburgh

Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children.

Ecologist Lee Talbot

There is just one place where yesterday and today meet, recognize each other and embrace, and that place in tomorrow.

Eduardo Galeano

A country that runs on energy cannot afford to waste it.

Bruce Harmon

I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use our natural resources, but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob by wasteful use the generation that comes after us.

Theodore Roosevelt

We abuse land because we regard it as commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a commodity to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Aldo Leopold

Earth and water, if not too blatantly abused, can produce again and again for the benefit of all.

Stewart L. Udall

We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

Francis Bacon

immune system body system that fights off disease

infared radiation long light rays invisible to the eye

irrigate supply water to plants by human methods

landfill land area used as a dumping ground for solid waste

leukemia a serious disease of the blood

life expectancy number of years expected to live

litter garbage like food, paper and cans

migrate move from place to place

nuclear energy energy, obtained by nuclear fission

pest destructive animal, insect etc.

pesticides chemicals to kill pests

poaching hunting or catching animals on someone else's land without permission

pollutants dangerous substances that get into water, air, soil

pollution an undesirable change in the physical, chemical or biological

characteristics of an ecosystem

rainforest hot, wet forest in tropical areas where rainfall is heavy and there is no dry season

recycling reprocessing of waste products for reuse

reforestation the replanting of trees in a deforested area refuse waste material (garbage)

resources things that can be used

RSPCA (the) the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals respiratory illnesses illnesses associated with breathing s

aline salty

smog mixture of smoke and fog species a group of similar types of animals or plants throwaway buyers people who buy and then throw away objects soon

after without much use toxic poisonous

ultraviolet light a harmful color or light that can be seen by the human eye

vanish fade away gradually; go out of existence

ventilation circulation of air

wetland wet, low-lying areas of land

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