4th week -Green Planet-

Title: Green Planet

Author: Christine Lindop

Publisher (level): Oxford University Press (2.6)

Summary:

On 1 March 2002, the Ariane rocket went up into the sky. On the rocket was Envisat. Envisat is the satellite which gets power from the light of sun, and uses the power to send information back to scientists on earth. Scientist can learn what is happening in the air, in the sea and on earth.

There are many people and organizations that have tried to make the Earth a better place. For example, Rachel Carson　wrote a book Silent Spring which says that using a lot of pesticides destroys our environment, Greenpeace was established to protest to those who do wrong things to the Earth, and so on.

Even not so famous people take effort to save the Earth. When there was an accident that large amounts of oil went into the sea and onto the coast in a lonely part of Alaska in 1989, over 10,000 people helped cleaning the beaches.

To save the Earth a lot of people will need to work hard. (166 words)

Evaluation: 4 stars

This book is written in British English but I think we have no trouble to understand the sentences. It takes not more than one day to read it.

I could understand what efforts are taken by people to save the Earth. I think I am taking more or less efforts: not using plastic bags when shopping, going to bed early in order not to use more electricity. But when I am being lazy, I waste more resources than I have saved. (81 words)