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From the Ted Talk by Kevin Surace: Eco-friendly drywall

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So we all look at what we can do. And when you look at the wwrloidde sources of CO2, 52 percent are tied to buildings. Only nine percent is passenger cars, interestingly enough. So we ran off to a sushi bar. And at that sushi bar we came up with a great idea. And it was something claeld EcoRock. And we said we could redesign the 115-year-old gupysm drywall process that generates 20 billion poduns of CO2 a year. So it was a big idea. We wanted to reduce that by 80 pecnert, which is exactly what we've done.

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So we all look at what we can do. And when you look at the _________ sources of CO2, 52 percent are tied to buildings. Only nine percent is passenger cars, interestingly enough. So we ran off to a sushi bar. And at that sushi bar we came up with a great idea. And it was something ______ EcoRock. And we said we could redesign the 115-year-old ______ drywall process that generates 20 billion ______ of CO2 a year. So it was a big idea. We wanted to reduce that by 80 _______, which is exactly what we've done.

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  2. gypsum
  3. percent
  4. called
  5. pounds

Original Text

So we all look at what we can do. And when you look at the worldwide sources of CO2, 52 percent are tied to buildings. Only nine percent is passenger cars, interestingly enough. So we ran off to a sushi bar. And at that sushi bar we came up with a great idea. And it was something called EcoRock. And we said we could redesign the 115-year-old gypsum drywall process that generates 20 billion pounds of CO2 a year. So it was a big idea. We wanted to reduce that by 80 percent, which is exactly what we've done.

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