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From the Ted Talk by William McDonough: Cradle to cradle design
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Someone herad the six hours of talk that I gave claled "The Monticello Dialogues" on NPR, and sent me this as a thank you note — "We realize that design is a signal of intention, but it also has to occur within a world, and we have to understand that world in order to ibmue our designs with inherent ienntcgellie, and so as we look back at the basic state of affairs in which we dseign, we, in a way, need to go to the primordial condition to unanedrstd the ortnepiag ssyetm and the frame conditions of a pnleat, and I think the exciting part of that is the good news that's there, because the news is the news of abundance, and not the news of limits, and I think as our culture tortures itself now with tyrannies and concerns over limits and fear, we can add this other dimension of aucnbdane that is coherent, driven by the sun, and start to imagine what that would be like to share." That was a nice thing to get. That was one sentence. Henry James would be proud. This is — I put it down at the bottom, but that was extemporaneous, obviously.
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Someone _____ the six hours of talk that I gave ______ "The Monticello Dialogues" on NPR, and sent me this as a thank you note — "We realize that design is a signal of intention, but it also has to occur within a world, and we have to understand that world in order to _____ our designs with inherent ____________, and so as we look back at the basic state of affairs in which we ______, we, in a way, need to go to the primordial condition to __________ the _________ ______ and the frame conditions of a ______, and I think the exciting part of that is the good news that's there, because the news is the news of abundance, and not the news of limits, and I think as our culture tortures itself now with tyrannies and concerns over limits and fear, we can add this other dimension of _________ that is coherent, driven by the sun, and start to imagine what that would be like to share." That was a nice thing to get. That was one sentence. Henry James would be proud. This is — I put it down at the bottom, but that was extemporaneous, obviously.
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Original Text
Someone heard the six hours of talk that I gave called "The Monticello Dialogues" on NPR, and sent me this as a thank you note — "We realize that design is a signal of intention, but it also has to occur within a world, and we have to understand that world in order to imbue our designs with inherent intelligence, and so as we look back at the basic state of affairs in which we design, we, in a way, need to go to the primordial condition to understand the operating system and the frame conditions of a planet, and I think the exciting part of that is the good news that's there, because the news is the news of abundance, and not the news of limits, and I think as our culture tortures itself now with tyrannies and concerns over limits and fear, we can add this other dimension of abundance that is coherent, driven by the sun, and start to imagine what that would be like to share." That was a nice thing to get. That was one sentence. Henry James would be proud. This is — I put it down at the bottom, but that was extemporaneous, obviously.
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