Unioeste 2011

The green economy

1.  The business world has discovered a new market to exploit – the green economy – and it now uses

2.  “green” slogans to sell its products. Visit any English supermarket and you'll see products labeled

3.  organic, free range and eco-friendly. The label “organic” guarantees the absence of synthetic pesticides

4.  and preservatives. “Free range” eggs and meat usually come from farms where the animals live outside

5.  in fields, not inside buildings. Products labeled “eco-friendly” – such as detergents, recycled paper and

6.  bags – don't contain toxic chemicals and break down into harmless waste.

7.  Today green activists teach the three Rs: reduce, reuse and recycle. We must reduce our consumption of

8.  energy, reuse products like plastic bottles, and recycle the components and materials of our waste.

(Adapted from: Speak Up magazine, issue 255, August 2008, p. 12.)