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Today the idea of "simple and seasonal" seems to be everywhere. But Alice Waters was saying it about 50 years ago, when Chez Panisse first opened on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley. Neither a trained cook nor a businesswoman, she has changed the face of American dining.

Waters never intended to have the power she now has. Growing up in New Jersey in the 1950s, she went to the University of California, Berkeley, only because her closest friends were going, and for a while she didn't have a dear aim.

But living in France for a year changed everything. Waters fell in love with good food and the care people took over its sourcing and cooking. "I took my Slow Food values— everyone should have access to good food, and growers are properly valued—from 1960s France," she says. "By the time I came home they were part of me."

Back in California, all Waters wanted to do was cook and open a restaurant. When Chez Panisse finally opened, with dinner cooked and served by a team with no training, it was a disaster. Guests waited ages for their food. But Waters was not discouraged. "I've always said that if someone makes delicious food, others will find it."

Since 1971, Chez Panisse's only expansion has been a cafe upstairs. Waters has always refused to make it bigger since that might weaken the Chez Panisse brand. Her Edible Schoolyard Project, on the other hand, has been intentionally spread out. It started when Waters created a garden space at a Berkeley school for teaching about food. Today, over 2,000 schools worldwide arc following Waters' original model.

The Schoolyard represents everything Alice Waters stands for and acts as a cornerstone, promoting both educational and personal growth. The food is grown slowly and naturally by hand. Students learn about the benefits of healthy eating, careers in food industry, nutrition, food safety, and the restaurant business.

Mars is a neighboring planet in our solar system. Scientists study Mars because it could hold clues that could help us learn more about life on Earth. For decades, scientists have used robot technology to better understand Mars. In December 2020, scientists introduced a group of robots named Mars Dogs at a yearly meeting.

The Mars Dog is a four-legged robot created by the company Boston Dynamics. It, along with other similar robots, can move around in ways the wheeled rovers (探测器) that explored the planet never could. Traditional Mars rovers are limited mostly to flat surfaces. However, many scientifically interesting Martian regions are only reachable by crossing very rough (崎岖的) ground or going below ground. Walking Mars Dogs are well-suited for such challenges-even if they fall down, they can get back up again. These robots can also explore underground by walking around rocks and lowering themselves into caves. They are even capable of selecting which path to take. While they do this, they collect measurements to build a map of what they sec.

A Mars Dog would also be about 12 times lighter than current rovers. It would be able to travel much faster, reaching normal walking speeds of 5 kilometers per hour during tests. Compare that to the Curiosity rover that is currently exploring Mars. Curiosity rolls along the Martian surface at about 0. 14 kilometers per hour.

Before going to Mars, the team members are testing the robot. They even take the robot to outdoor locations similar to Martian landscapes. Those tests show that the robots, without any help, can walk around rocks and map deep caves. "These behaviors could one day enable significant scientific missions to take place on the Martian surface and subsurface," the scientists said at the yearly meeting.

Whaling was once a major industry worldwide. And by the 1940s, more than 30,000 whales were being caught every yean Oil from whales was widely used. In order to make possible the orderly development of the global whaling industry, the international Whaling Commission (IWC) was formed in 1946.

However, in 1986, the IWC voted (投票) for a ban on whaling. The biggest concern was the huge fall in whale populations across the planet. Indeed many people say the ban came too late and that commercial whaling has already driven many species close to extinction. According to Greenpeace, blue whales are less than 1% of their original number in the Antarctic while Sei Whales and Fin Whales are also listed as "endangered species".

There are many other good reasons to oppose whaling. Whales are extremely intelligent creatures. They have social networks very similar to those of humans, and scientists have recently discovered that whales have brain cells only previously found in humans and great apes (猿) . On top of that, whaling is also a cruel industry. Whales are often caught using explosive harpoons (鱼叉). In some cases, when the harpoon doesn't bit its target properly, whales can take minutes or sometimes hours to die.

Despite this, some countries continue to hunt whales. And currently Japan hunts more than 1,000 whales a year-all of them part of a supposed "scientific research" programme. Many people argue that this "research" is nothing more than a front of commercial whaling — the meat that is left over after samples are taken is sold.

At present, the world is fairly divided on the issue with Iceland, Japan and Norway on the pro-whaling side and the US, Australia, New Zealand and the EU on the anti-whaling side. Asked recently bow difficult his job was on a scale (等级) of one to ten, Cristian Maquieira, the chairman of the IWC said, "About a twelve!"

There you are in your favorite clothing store. You don't really need to buy anything, but everything is so cheap and fashionable! Before you know it, you leave the store with bags and bags of new clothes.

On the surface, this doesn't seem so bad. However, there are a lot of hidden costs behind the low price put forward by fast fashion brands. Not only does it use up a lot of resources, but it also heavily pollutes the environment with chemicals, micro-plastics and unwanted waste.

Fashion is one of the least sustainable (可持续发展的) industries on the planet, commented Michael Stanley-Jones, an officer with the United Nations Environment Program. Actually, it doesn't just take up space in our houses, though. It also ends up in landfills (垃圾场), too.

People are increasingly examining their own consumption and what changes they can make to become sustainable, Jane Fellner, founder of sustainable fashion company Loopster, told the Guardian.

In particular, with its typically lower prices and rare fashion finds, shopping secondhand has become an increasingly popular and eco-friendly choice. And, although fast fashion will continue to grow 20 percent over the next 10 years, secondhand fashion is expected to grow an unbelievable 185 percent in that same amount of time.

"The only true sustainable way to shop is to not shop at all," Rachel Kibbc, a brand adviser for ensuring sustainability in fashion, told Insider," Unless you're buying clothes that ALREADY exist."

A. However, thankfully, the fashion trend is changing.

B. To be frank, the fashion industry is terrible for the planet.

C. The secondhand market is facing quite a few significant challenges.

D. In fact, they've developed some marketing strategies to increase sales.

E. Research shows the secondhand market is expected to reach $80 billion by 2029.

F. "We're our own waste managers, storing fashion waste in our houses," he noted.

G. Fellner added, "Secondhand becomes more socially acceptable and, for some, cool."

Ten cats and six dogs in W-Underdogs are safe thanks to the quick thinking of Keith Walker; a homeless man in Atlanta. Seeing a home 1 , he called the fire department, and then 2 to save the dogs and cats.

Founded about six years ago, W-Underdogs is a community group 3 dogs and cats. Volunteers in the group 4 dog food to people who can't always afford to buy it, 5 pets without owners, and provide 6 at times. Walker, 53, has been homeless for 40 years. He 7 the group with odd jobs, but since news of his brave 8 has surfaced, the group has received large quantities of 9 about how they can help. Go Fund Me 10 have been set up to financially support Walker and W-Underdogs, which 11 so much in the fire.

"12. they're all safe now and lots of volunteers are walking them and loving them,” says dog trainer Victoria. "It's a small but 13 job. We do the work in communities that is very 14. But people have been so unbelievably generous with their time and 15 blankets and helping us with W-Underdogs."

Dozens of people left 16 online, but one summed everything up so well:

"I 17 about Keith's heroism and it was possibly the best story for me. We all have problems, troubles and difficulties fitting in. But the pure 18 of this man is undeniable. 19and people need someone like him to simply exist because his love matters. Thank you for 20 the light in the world."

The United Nations believes about 17 percent of the world's food (go) to waste each year. The information comes from the UN Environment Programs Food Waste Index Report 2021. The report says food waste is not only problem in rich countries, it also happens in poor countries food supplies can go bad without cold storage (存 储). Most of the wasted food comes from homes. The rest comes from stores and food service (company).

Sometimes stores offer reduced prices on larger amounts of food. When people buy too much food, they don't always use it before it goes bad. Also, the writing on food containers can be hard (understand). In some cases, the producers put a date that shows when the food will be best to eat. Sometimes the food is still good for several days after the date, people will throw it away. So far, food administrators in the US (ask) producers to label their products in a way that is much (easy) for people to understand.

Researchers say food waste is a (grow) concern because of the large amount of land and energy required to produce food, raise animals and plant crops. If food waste is cut down, it might be possible to reduce the impact of its production the world.