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From the Ted Talk by Alex Steffen: The shareable future of cities
Unscramble the Blue Letters
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Open Cloze
The solution, in fact, may be closer to hand than we think, because all of those cities we're ________ are opportunities. Every city determines to a very large extent the amount of ______ used by its inhabitants. We tend to think of energy use as a behavioral thing — I choose to turn this light switch on — but really, enormous amounts of our energy use are predestined by the kinds of communities and cities that we live in. I won't show you very many graphs today, but if I can just _____ on this one for a ______, it really tells us a lot of what we need to know — which is, quite ______, that if you look, for example, at ______________, a major category of climate emissions, there is a ______ relationship between how dense a city is and the amount of climate _________ that its residents spew out into the air. And the correlation, of course, is that denser ______ tend to have lower emissions — which isn't really all that difficult to figure out, if you think about it.
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Original Text
The solution, in fact, may be closer to hand than we think, because all of those cities we're building are opportunities. Every city determines to a very large extent the amount of energy used by its inhabitants. We tend to think of energy use as a behavioral thing — I choose to turn this light switch on — but really, enormous amounts of our energy use are predestined by the kinds of communities and cities that we live in. I won't show you very many graphs today, but if I can just focus on this one for a moment, it really tells us a lot of what we need to know — which is, quite simply, that if you look, for example, at transportation, a major category of climate emissions, there is a direct relationship between how dense a city is and the amount of climate emissions that its residents spew out into the air. And the correlation, of course, is that denser places tend to have lower emissions — which isn't really all that difficult to figure out, if you think about it.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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| climate change |
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| clean energy |
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| people living |
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| climate emissions |
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| entire city |
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| home power |
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