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W: Tom, as the manager of a company selling green products, you're now quite a successful businessman. When did you know you wanted to have your own company?

M: My family left Budapest in 1986 and settled in Canada, where a lot of my friends' parents were highly successful businessmen. It seemed so cool! So, in high school, I started a web design company and learned a lot from that experience.

W: How did you find the money for your present company, then?

M: We've raised 18 million dollars from about 50 people. We're finally making money. I own six percent of the company, and all employees get their shares.

W: By the way, what aspects of your life are green?

M: I'm only mildly green. I do simple things, and I'm a huge biker. I biked across Canada.

W: Do you think you have ever done anything wasteful?

M: We're always doing something wrong, but then, that's what allows us to learn and grow. When I first started out, we made all the products ourselves. But that was a mistake. Now, we work with other companies. We provide the materials, the product development, and the design. They make the products, and...

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M: Good afternoon, I want to thank professor Johnson for giving me the chance to talk to you today about Alaska, One of the things that concern me most is the future of the Alaska's environment. About twenty years ago, before going on some wilderness research, I visited Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska. It was a small city of 40,000 people surrounded by a quiet wilderness. When I made a recent trip there, I found amazing changes. Anchorage now has a hundred and eight thousand people, more than four times as many as in 1960. There're tall buildings, shopping centers and all the crowds and traffic jams. The forests and mountains are still nearby, but they seem so small compared to the city's great size, The discovery of oil in Alaska brought increased wealth to the state. However, there have been too many people moving to Alaska in a very short period to work on the pipeline. There is not enough housing or transportation. I think Alaska must make important decisions soon Alaskans need to decide how to develop their natural resources and mineral wealth without destroying the wilderness and harming the wildlife. What is decided on now will affect the generations to come.

　　For today's lecture, I've brought along many of the pictures I usually show in my environmental science classes in my own university. First, I'll show you some pictures of Alaska's wilderness as it is today. Then I'd like to outline my specific suggestions.

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