Book Report 1(2009.05.12)

*Title : Building Green
*Author : 이찬승, 황우연, 안세정, 구은영, 김진홍, 이종은
*Publisher & Year : 능률교육, 2009
*Vocabularies
1) Not knowing words or idioms
- make use of (= take advantage of) : using somethings -- ~을 이용하다
- generate : to produce or create somethings -- 발생시키다
2) Important words or idioms
- for example = for instance
- take a closer look : look closely
- A as well as B = not only B but also A (동사는 A에 맞춤)
- convert A into B : change something(A) to another forms(B)
- 비교급 수식 : much, still, far, a lot , even
- keep + O(object) + from V-ing (= prevent + O + from + V-ing)
- not A but B : A가 아니라 B

*Summary (Summarize each paragraphs)
In recent years, many people joined the sustainable developement which has goal to balance the needs of people with the protection of nature. Especially called "green buildings" are designed to save energy and water, and make use of materials that do not damage the environment.
At the Clackamas High School in Oregon, a new research center at Oberlin College in Ohio and the Calhoun School in New York City use also the green items - big windows, solar cells and the rooftop garden to save the electrical energy.
We have to save water and a new library in Santa Monica, California was built with a special drainage system to collect every last drop of water.
There are lots of green materials in the world, for example, the bamboo is used in buildings instead of the trees because they can grow quickly. Also, the recycled materials such as the newspaper, recycled glass, walls and recycled plastic milk containers used.
In the future, the green features are founded a lot more than now. Slowly but surely, the buildings are becoming healthier and greener.

*Comment
Not until reading this story, I don't think about the green items and buildings deeply. Just I think about them, 'Umm... The environment is destroyed rapidly, so the green changes will have to be used.....'. After reading this story however, I changed my thoughts! 'The green buildings are come out more and more and the green items are so important!'. Actually I didn't have professional informations about the green change but this story gave me lots of informations about it. I can understand about green change more completely because of this story. Also, I realized it has lots of examples of using in our life. Thanks for this story and I will join the green movements too! ^---^*