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Kenta is a young ( 1 ) who works on top of an office building in Tokyo. He takes the
train to work, then uses an elevator to go to the top of the building. He is a little different
from the other office workers who also use the elevator. He doesn't spend all day in front of a
computer in an office. But, he changes his clothes and spends his day outdoors (). Can
you imagine what he does? He grows vegetables there. It is forty-five floors above ground.
Many young people left the *countryside to get jobs in the city in *the 1950s. People like
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Kenta are bringing farming into *urban life. They are making farming *fashionable. Also,
they are *providing food and saving (3). Thanks to the plants, the roof is kept cooler
and the office workers in the building below don't need to use the *air-conditioning as much.
This *reduces both the quantity of electricity used and the amount of heat *generated by
the air-conditioning.- Another great *benefit of this kind of *agriculture is that plants help
to clean the air and *produce *oxygen. If these kinds of farms and gardens become more
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popular, cities could be covered with cool oxygen-producing green areas.
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Growing food on the tops of buildings also *makes good economic sense. First, there would
be more jobs for people who like farming and live in the city. Second, it could reduce the
amount of *imported food, and third, it would *lower food *transportation costs. For many
years, cities have been taking over (4) to make houses. If these new farms and gardens
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