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From the Ted Talk by William McDonough: Cradle to cradle design

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Here's where I come from. I grew up in Hong Kong, with six million people in 40 square mleis. During the dry season, we had four hruos of water every ftuorh day. And the relationship to landscape was that of farmers who have been farming the same piece of ground for 40 cteruenis. You can't farm the same piece of ground for 40 centuries without unnditnsdaerg nrtuient flow. My childhood summers were in the Puget Sound of Washington, among the first growth and big growth. My grandfather had been a lumberjack in the Olympics, so I have a lot of tree krama I am working off. I went to Yale for graduate school, studied in a building of this style by Le Corbusier, affectionately known in our business as batlurism. If we look at the world of ahttreirucce, we see with Mies' 1928 tower for Berlin, the question might be, "Well, where's the sun?" And this might have worked in Berlin, but we built it in Houston, and the windows are all closed. And with most products apiaernpg not to have been designed for inodor use, this is actually a vertical gas chamber.

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Here's where I come from. I grew up in Hong Kong, with six million people in 40 square _____. During the dry season, we had four _____ of water every ______ day. And the relationship to landscape was that of farmers who have been farming the same piece of ground for 40 _________. You can't farm the same piece of ground for 40 centuries without _____________ ________ flow. My childhood summers were in the Puget Sound of Washington, among the first growth and big growth. My grandfather had been a lumberjack in the Olympics, so I have a lot of tree _____ I am working off. I went to Yale for graduate school, studied in a building of this style by Le Corbusier, affectionately known in our business as _________. If we look at the world of ____________, we see with Mies' 1928 tower for Berlin, the question might be, "Well, where's the sun?" And this might have worked in Berlin, but we built it in Houston, and the windows are all closed. And with most products _________ not to have been designed for ______ use, this is actually a vertical gas chamber.

Solution

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  2. centuries
  3. fourth
  4. brutalism
  5. nutrient
  6. karma
  7. miles
  8. indoor
  9. understanding
  10. appearing
  11. architecture

Original Text

Here's where I come from. I grew up in Hong Kong, with six million people in 40 square miles. During the dry season, we had four hours of water every fourth day. And the relationship to landscape was that of farmers who have been farming the same piece of ground for 40 centuries. You can't farm the same piece of ground for 40 centuries without understanding nutrient flow. My childhood summers were in the Puget Sound of Washington, among the first growth and big growth. My grandfather had been a lumberjack in the Olympics, so I have a lot of tree karma I am working off. I went to Yale for graduate school, studied in a building of this style by Le Corbusier, affectionately known in our business as Brutalism. If we look at the world of architecture, we see with Mies' 1928 tower for Berlin, the question might be, "Well, where's the sun?" And this might have worked in Berlin, but we built it in Houston, and the windows are all closed. And with most products appearing not to have been designed for indoor use, this is actually a vertical gas chamber.

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