vocabulary Unit 1: Necessities: Less stuff more happiness

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- Harm the planet

Harm - hurt - injury

Hill´s website promotes a lifestyle that doesn´t harm the planet.

- Sort = Type

What sorts of actions or choices do you think he recommends or discourages?

- To get rid of = to clear of = to free of

How easy do you find it to get rid of stuff?

- Treehugger = ecologist

Hug = embrace (abrazo)

Dedicated to = devoted to = committed to

He founded Treehugger.com, a website dedicated to promoting a lifestyle that doesn´t harm the planet and to making complex environmental issues easier to understand.

- To be worth +ing = be good enough to = merit

Idea worth spreading

- Spread = propagate = expand

Hill´s "idea worth spreading" is that we can actually be happier with fewer things, so long as we are able to edit our lives in smart, practical ways.

- As long as = so long as = provided (that) = providing (that) (mientras que = con la condición de que)

I will come to visit you tomorrow, provided it doesn´t rain

She´ll talk to you provided you listen

You can stay, providing you help

As long as you can come by six,I´ll be there

- Flat-lined (vb): stopped increasing, but didn´t decrease

Even though I had everything money could buy, my happiness was flat-lined

- To crowdsource = to appeal for = to ask a lot of people for sth (advice, money, ideas...) via internet

I crowdsourced advice on the best green holiday options.

I crowdsourced idea for a new employment

I crowdsource money for help...

- To clear the arteries of = removed unnecessary stuff from the inner workings of

Deleting my old photographs cleared the arteries of my computer

- Extraneous = external = not essential

The simple design avoided extraneous elements that would detract from the clean look.

Detract from = take away from

- Stem the inflow = reduce the inward (towards the inside) movement

The recycling campaign has helped to stem the inflow of waste into our local landfill site (site for burying waste)

- Nest - fit one inside the other

The bowls are three different sizes,so they nest, maling them easy to store.