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• Alternative energy source


  Energy source that is different from the main or usual one
• Change your ways


  Improve one's behavior or habits
• Disastrous consequences


  Extremely bad results
• Eco-friendly design


  Design that is environmentally friendly
• Environmental catastrophe


  Extremely damaging environmental event
• Find a solution


  Discover an answer or remedy
• Food miles


  Distance food has to travel between where it is grown and where it is consumed
• Harmful to the environment

  Damaging or detrimental to the environment
• Introduce green taxes


  Impose taxes to encourage environmentally friendly behaviour
• Irreversible climate change


  Climate change that cannot be undone
• Offsetting


  • Carbon
  • Vehicle emissions
• Offshore wind farm


  Wind farm built in bodies of water, usually at sea, to generate electricity through wind power
• Reduce your carbon footprint


  Reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions associated with one's activities
• Renewable energy


  Energy from a source that is not depleted when used, such as wind or solar power
• Risk to public health

  Danger or threat to the health of the general population
• Run dry


  A source runs dry when it is completely used up
• Searing heat


  Extreme heat
• Solar heating


  System of using solar energy to heat water or air
• Develop alternative energy sources


  For instance, solar heating
• Temperature soars


  Temperature rises sharply
• Weather patterns


  The typical weather conditions in a particular region
• Back of beyond


  A place that is extremely remote
• Bored rigid


  Feeling of being very bored
• Bustling centre


  A centre full of busy activity
• Congested road


  When there is too much traffic and movement is difficult
• Crowded street


  A street with many people or vehicles
• Derelict building


  A building in a very poor condition as a result of disuse or neglect
• Desirable place to live


  A place that is attractive and appealing to live in
• Hail a taxi


  To signal a taxi to stop
• Hectic pace of life


  Busy, fast and full of activity
• Inner city


  The central part of a city, often with social and economic problems
• In the middle of nowhere


  A very remote location
• Leafy suburbs


  Pleasant and with lots of trees
• Long opening or it opens all hours

  A place that is open for long hours or all the time
• Quiet backwater


  A part of a river where the water does not flow
• Reliable public transport


  Public transport that can be depended on to work well
• Residential dwellings


  Self-contained unit of accommodation used by one or more households as a home
• Rustic charm


  Simple, natural and unspoiled appeal
• Rural idyll


  Idealization of the rural life
• Tree-planting scheme


  A plan to create trees