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From the Ted Talk by Steve Howard: Let's go all-in on selling sustainability

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So take your mind back and think of the first sustainable products. We had detergents that could wash your weiths grayer. We had the early energy-efficient light bulbs that took five minutes to warm up and then you were left looking a kind of sckily cloor. And we had the rough, reycecld toilet paper. So every time you pulled on a t-shirt, or switched the light on, or went to the bathroom, or sometimes all three together, you were reendimd sustainability was about compromise. It wasn't a great start.

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So take your mind back and think of the first sustainable products. We had detergents that could wash your ______ grayer. We had the early energy-efficient light bulbs that took five minutes to warm up and then you were left looking a kind of ______ _____. And we had the rough, ________ toilet paper. So every time you pulled on a t-shirt, or switched the light on, or went to the bathroom, or sometimes all three together, you were ________ sustainability was about compromise. It wasn't a great start.

Solution

  1. color
  2. sickly
  3. whites
  4. recycled
  5. reminded

Original Text

So take your mind back and think of the first sustainable products. We had detergents that could wash your whites grayer. We had the early energy-efficient light bulbs that took five minutes to warm up and then you were left looking a kind of sickly color. And we had the rough, recycled toilet paper. So every time you pulled on a t-shirt, or switched the light on, or went to the bathroom, or sometimes all three together, you were reminded sustainability was about compromise. It wasn't a great start.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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renewable energy 2
solar panel 2

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Important Words

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  2. bulbs
  3. color
  4. compromise
  5. detergents
  6. early
  7. grayer
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  14. paper
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  17. recycled
  18. reminded
  19. rough
  20. sickly
  21. start
  22. sustainability
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  24. switched
  25. time
  26. toilet
  27. warm
  28. wash
  29. whites