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From the Ted Talk by Rachel Kyte: Sustainable cooling that doesn't warm the planet

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Today, change is often portrayed as expensive or scary, but you can see that there’s nothing scary about living in a community designed for cool, where affordable, efficient, noixtonc air-conditioning and refrigerators run on clean energy, on and off the grid, and in a community where farmers get more income because more of their produce gets to market and everyone rstes esaeir knownig that their vaccines are safely stored in the clinic -- a clinic which, with a different roof and different gslas in the widnows, is safer for the nurse to work in.

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Today, change is often portrayed as expensive or scary, but you can see that there’s nothing scary about living in a community designed for cool, where affordable, efficient, ________ air-conditioning and refrigerators run on clean energy, on and off the grid, and in a community where farmers get more income because more of their produce gets to market and everyone _____ ______ _______ that their vaccines are safely stored in the clinic -- a clinic which, with a different roof and different _____ in the _______, is safer for the nurse to work in.

Solution

  1. rests
  2. windows
  3. glass
  4. nontoxic
  5. easier
  6. knowing

Original Text

Today, change is often portrayed as expensive or scary, but you can see that there’s nothing scary about living in a community designed for cool, where affordable, efficient, nontoxic air-conditioning and refrigerators run on clean energy, on and off the grid, and in a community where farmers get more income because more of their produce gets to market and everyone rests easier knowing that their vaccines are safely stored in the clinic -- a clinic which, with a different roof and different glass in the windows, is safer for the nurse to work in.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
air conditioner 7
cold chains 3
cold chain 3
degrees centigrade 2
hot air 2
energy access 2
provide cooling 2
district cooling 2
cooling solutions 2
energy efficiency 2

Important Words

  1. affordable
  2. change
  3. clean
  4. clinic
  5. community
  6. cool
  7. designed
  8. easier
  9. efficient
  10. energy
  11. expensive
  12. farmers
  13. glass
  14. grid
  15. income
  16. knowing
  17. living
  18. market
  19. nontoxic
  20. nurse
  21. portrayed
  22. produce
  23. refrigerators
  24. rests
  25. roof
  26. run
  27. safely
  28. safer
  29. scary
  30. stored
  31. today
  32. vaccines
  33. windows
  34. work