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From the Ted Talk by Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Now within our couimmtny, a certain culture has appeared. In our culture, it is better to be a tseetr who supports someone else's idea than it is to be just the idea guy. What we get out of this prjeoct is support for our own work, as well as an experience of actually contributing to the environmental movement in a way other than just screwing in new light bulbs. But I think that Eleen expresses best what we really get out of this, which is the actual joy of collaboration. So she exepsesrs here what it's like to see someone halfway across the world having taken your idea, built upon it and then ainwngokldecg you for contributing. If we really want to see the kind of wide csomeunr behavior change that we're all tnaklig about as environmentalists and food people, maybe we just need to ditch the term "consumer" and get behind the people who are doing stuff.

Open Cloze


Now within our _________, a certain culture has appeared. In our culture, it is better to be a ______ who supports someone else's idea than it is to be just the idea guy. What we get out of this _______ is support for our own work, as well as an experience of actually contributing to the environmental movement in a way other than just screwing in new light bulbs. But I think that Eleen expresses best what we really get out of this, which is the actual joy of collaboration. So she _________ here what it's like to see someone halfway across the world having taken your idea, built upon it and then _____________ you for contributing. If we really want to see the kind of wide ________ behavior change that we're all _______ about as environmentalists and food people, maybe we just need to ditch the term "consumer" and get behind the people who are doing stuff.

Solution


  1. community
  2. expresses
  3. talking
  4. consumer
  5. acknowledging
  6. tester
  7. project

Original Text


Now within our community, a certain culture has appeared. In our culture, it is better to be a tester who supports someone else's idea than it is to be just the idea guy. What we get out of this project is support for our own work, as well as an experience of actually contributing to the environmental movement in a way other than just screwing in new light bulbs. But I think that Eleen expresses best what we really get out of this, which is the actual joy of collaboration. So she expresses here what it's like to see someone halfway across the world having taken your idea, built upon it and then acknowledging you for contributing. If we really want to see the kind of wide consumer behavior change that we're all talking about as environmentalists and food people, maybe we just need to ditch the term "consumer" and get behind the people who are doing stuff.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
window farms 4
open source 3
york city 2
city apartment 2
root systems 2
window farm 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
york city apartment 2

Important Words


  1. acknowledging
  2. actual
  3. appeared
  4. behavior
  5. built
  6. bulbs
  7. change
  8. collaboration
  9. community
  10. consumer
  11. contributing
  12. culture
  13. ditch
  14. eleen
  15. environmental
  16. environmentalists
  17. experience
  18. expresses
  19. food
  20. guy
  21. halfway
  22. idea
  23. joy
  24. kind
  25. light
  26. movement
  27. people
  28. project
  29. screwing
  30. stuff
  31. support
  32. supports
  33. talking
  34. term
  35. tester
  36. wide
  37. work
  38. world