Unit 12* Economics and Ecology
- Read the extract from the article from the CNN Money website and complete the extract with the expressions listed.
trash costs garbage consulting firm track
analyzing waste removal expenses consumer
advocacy recycled trash output business
environmental protection combines environment
Turning Trash into Cash
Young entrepreneur studies garbage in successful consulting ...
(1).New York — Elana Amsterdam, a 29-year-old New Yorker who studied European history at Columbia University, spends her days ... (2) trash.
Her lifelong interest in the ... (3) inspired her to found Ecosav, a ... (4) that produced $ 700,000 in revenues last year.
“We work with companies to reduce their ... (5),” said Amsterdam, the company’s president, on CNNfn’s “Business Unusual.”
With clients such as Williams-Sonoma Inc., Barneys New York, Polo Ralph Lauren, and the “21” Club, Ecosav helps companies cut their ... (6) by 50 to 70 percent.
“This is a great business for me because it... (7) two interests I have — the economy and ecology,” she said.
Amsterdam starts by studying a company’s ... (8). Then she sifts out items that can be ... (9), such as newspapers, cardboard and white office paper.
“Companies typically don’t closely ...(10) what they’re throwing away,” Amsterdam said.
Amsterdam was tending bar after graduating from college in 1989 when she first got the idea for the company. She noticed that the trash she brought outside each night was filled with recyclable bottles.
Later, she lobbied for ...(11) and ... (12) for the New York Public Interest Research Group and interned at the New York City Department of Sanitation.
- After filling in the gaps read the extract once more and decide which of the statements are True and which are False and write T for True and F for False.
- Elana Amsterdam’s job is a trash analyst.
- She founded Ecosav because she has been interested in the environment for last five years.
- Her aim is to help companies spend more on their waste removal.
- Elana studied economics and ecology at New York university.
- The idea for the company struck her when she worked in a bar.
- Give Russian equivalents and make up your own sentences:
- endangered species;
- socio-economic pressures;
- brink of extinction;
- conservation programmes;
- habitat.
- Translate the following sentences into Russian.
- After stints at the Environmental Defense Fund and a waste management consulting firm, she founded Ecosav in 1993.
- She acknowledges her background might not fit her profession. But she said it’s helped her in the business because she breaks the mold.
- Her clients initially came to her because of the perception that the industry was dominated by the Mafia. But the New York City Trade Waste Commission has cleaned up the industry, she said.
- Today, clients need her help to sift through all of the options and competitors in the market.
- That allows her clients to focus on their own businesses instead of worrying about their garbage.
- Render the extract from the article using the active vocabulary.
Избрание индийского инженера Раджендры Пашаури руководителем группы экспертов ООН по вопросам глобального потепления вызвало беспокойство в кругах защитников окружающей среды. В WWF (World Wide Found of Nature) полагают, что в отстранении от этой должности американского ученого Ричарда Ватсона, известного своей прямолинейностью, немалую роль сыграли интересы «нефтяных и газовых компаний».
Впервые решение о назначении председателя Межправительственной группы экспертов по проблемам изменения климата было поддержано не всехми участниками голосования. В WWF опасаются «политизации» этого органа, решающего, прежде всего, научные задачи: объединение усилий ученых всего мира и ознакомление международной политической общественности с результатами проводящихся исследований. Кроме того, существуют опасения, что Межправительственная группа под давлением энергетических лобби будет готовить «приглаженные» доклады. Эти опасения подкрепляются тем, что Рад- жендра Пашаури, помимо всего прочего, возглавляет комитет в нефтяной компании Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.
«Раджендра Пашаури является также директором Tata Energy Research Institute, известного своими экологическими исследованиями, — говорит Хосе Ромеро, глава швейцарской делегации в Межправительственной группе экспертов. — Роберт Ватсон был прекрасным руководителем Межправительственной группы, благодаря своим личным качествам и прекрасному знанию досье. Раджендра Пашаури привнесет новые положительные черты в руководство группой».