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From the Ted Talk by Jeff Kirschner: This app makes it fun to pick up litter

Unscramble the Blue Letters


The vsiion is to create a litter-free world. Let me show you how it started. I took a putcire of a cigarette using Instagram. Then I took another photo ... and another photo ... and another photo. And I ntioecd two things: one, litter became artistic and approachable; and two, at the end of a few days, I had 50 photos on my phone and I had picked up each piece, and I realized that I was keeping a record of the positive impact I was having on the planet. That's 50 less things that you might see, or you might step on, or some bird might eat.

So I started telling people what I was doing, and they started participating. One day, this photo showed up from cinha. And that's when I realized that Litterati was more than just pertty pictures; we were becoming a cniummtoy that was collecting data. Each photo tells a story. It tells us who pckied up what, a geotag tells us where and a time stamp tells us when. So I built a Google map, and started pttliong the points where peeics were being picked up. And through that process, the community grew and the data grew. My two kids go to school right in that bullseye.

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The ______ is to create a litter-free world. Let me show you how it started. I took a _______ of a cigarette using Instagram. Then I took another photo ... and another photo ... and another photo. And I _______ two things: one, litter became artistic and approachable; and two, at the end of a few days, I had 50 photos on my phone and I had picked up each piece, and I realized that I was keeping a record of the positive impact I was having on the planet. That's 50 less things that you might see, or you might step on, or some bird might eat.

So I started telling people what I was doing, and they started participating. One day, this photo showed up from _____. And that's when I realized that Litterati was more than just ______ pictures; we were becoming a _________ that was collecting data. Each photo tells a story. It tells us who ______ up what, a geotag tells us where and a time stamp tells us when. So I built a Google map, and started ________ the points where ______ were being picked up. And through that process, the community grew and the data grew. My two kids go to school right in that bullseye.

Solution


  1. vision
  2. community
  3. picked
  4. picture
  5. plotting
  6. china
  7. pretty
  8. noticed
  9. pieces

Original Text


The vision is to create a litter-free world. Let me show you how it started. I took a picture of a cigarette using Instagram. Then I took another photo ... and another photo ... and another photo. And I noticed two things: one, litter became artistic and approachable; and two, at the end of a few days, I had 50 photos on my phone and I had picked up each piece, and I realized that I was keeping a record of the positive impact I was having on the planet. That's 50 less things that you might see, or you might step on, or some bird might eat.

So I started telling people what I was doing, and they started participating. One day, this photo showed up from China. And that's when I realized that Litterati was more than just pretty pictures; we were becoming a community that was collecting data. Each photo tells a story. It tells us who picked up what, a geotag tells us where and a time stamp tells us when. So I built a Google map, and started plotting the points where pieces were being picked up. And through that process, the community grew and the data grew. My two kids go to school right in that bullseye.

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Important Words


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