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From the Ted Talk by Suzanne Lee: Why "biofabrication" is the next industrial revolution

Unscramble the Blue Letters

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Open Cloze

Beyond growing materials with living organisms, we're even starting to ______ products that encourage their growth. And this comes from the realization that the very thing we've been trying to marginalize — life — might actually be our greatest collaborator. To that end, we've been _________ all the ways that we can grow healthy microbes in our own ecosystems. A _____ example of this is architects who are imagining the skin of a ________ to function like the bark of a tree. But not as a ________ _____ layer. They're designing architectural barks as _____ for evolving ecologies. These surface structures are designed to invite life in. And if we applied the same energy we currently do suppressing _____ of life towards cultivating life, we'd turn the negative image of the urban ______ into one that _________ ________ a thriving, living ecosystem. By actively encouraging _______ interactions with healthy microbes, we could improve passive climate control, stormwater management and even reduce CO2 emissions by lowering the energy used to heat or cool our buildings.

Solution

  1. forms
  2. embodies
  3. design
  4. cosmetic
  5. exploring
  6. building
  7. hosts
  8. great
  9. green
  10. literally
  11. surface
  12. jungle

Original Text

Beyond growing materials with living organisms, we're even starting to design products that encourage their growth. And this comes from the realization that the very thing we've been trying to marginalize — life — might actually be our greatest collaborator. To that end, we've been exploring all the ways that we can grow healthy microbes in our own ecosystems. A great example of this is architects who are imagining the skin of a building to function like the bark of a tree. But not as a cosmetic green layer. They're designing architectural barks as hosts for evolving ecologies. These surface structures are designed to invite life in. And if we applied the same energy we currently do suppressing forms of life towards cultivating life, we'd turn the negative image of the urban jungle into one that literally embodies a thriving, living ecosystem. By actively encouraging surface interactions with healthy microbes, we could improve passive climate control, stormwater management and even reduce CO2 emissions by lowering the energy used to heat or cool our buildings.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

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