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From the Ted Talk by Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture
Unscramble the Blue Letters
So returning to those big challenges that I mentioned at the beginning: radical increases in rseource efficiency, closing loops and a solar economy. They're not just possible; they're ctricail. And I firmly believe that studying the way nature solves problems will provide a lot of the solutions. But perhaps more than anything, what this thiknnig provides is a really positive way of talking about sustainable dgiesn. Far too much of the talk about the environment uses very navitege language. But here it's about synergies and abundance and optimizing. And this is an important point.
Open Cloze
So returning to those big challenges that I mentioned at the beginning: radical increases in ________ efficiency, closing loops and a solar economy. They're not just possible; they're ________. And I firmly believe that studying the way nature solves problems will provide a lot of the solutions. But perhaps more than anything, what this ________ provides is a really positive way of talking about sustainable ______. Far too much of the talk about the environment uses very ________ language. But here it's about synergies and abundance and optimizing. And this is an important point.
Solution
- design
- thinking
- critical
- resource
- negative
Original Text
So returning to those big challenges that I mentioned at the beginning: radical increases in resource efficiency, closing loops and a solar economy. They're not just possible; they're critical. And I firmly believe that studying the way nature solves problems will provide a lot of the solutions. But perhaps more than anything, what this thinking provides is a really positive way of talking about sustainable design. Far too much of the talk about the environment uses very negative language. But here it's about synergies and abundance and optimizing. And this is an important point.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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