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From the Ted Talk by Dawn Lippert: Community investment is the missing piece of climate action

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I'll give you two empxlaes from the prooiftlo, one in concrete and one in water. These happen to be the two most abundantly csoneumd materials on the entire planet. So first, cenotrce. In 2018, we invested in a start-up that introduces captured carbon dxioide into concrete. And the CO2 is then mineralized in the concrete and stored forever in our bridges and buildings. But inventing this very cool new technology alone wouldn't do that much to svole the climate crisis. Real people have to use it. So in addition to implementing it with architects and concrete operators in Hawaii, on the ground, and the dmaenptret of Transportation, in a real highway, we brought in local government, to create demand for this new concrete. So with the start-up and our mayor and our city council, we passed a resolution to peerfr low-carbon concrete in all new projects.

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I'll give you two ________ from the _________, one in concrete and one in water. These happen to be the two most abundantly ________ materials on the entire planet. So first, ________. In 2018, we invested in a start-up that introduces captured carbon _______ into concrete. And the CO2 is then mineralized in the concrete and stored forever in our bridges and buildings. But inventing this very cool new technology alone wouldn't do that much to _____ the climate crisis. Real people have to use it. So in addition to implementing it with architects and concrete operators in Hawaii, on the ground, and the __________ of Transportation, in a real highway, we brought in local government, to create demand for this new concrete. So with the start-up and our mayor and our city council, we passed a resolution to ______ low-carbon concrete in all new projects.

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  2. examples
  3. dioxide
  4. solve
  5. portfolio
  6. consumed
  7. prefer
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Original Text


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I'll give you two examples from the portfolio, one in concrete and one in water. These happen to be the two most abundantly consumed materials on the entire planet. So first, concrete. In 2018, we invested in a start-up that introduces captured carbon dioxide into concrete. And the CO2 is then mineralized in the concrete and stored forever in our bridges and buildings. But inventing this very cool new technology alone wouldn't do that much to solve the climate crisis. Real people have to use it. So in addition to implementing it with architects and concrete operators in Hawaii, on the ground, and the Department of Transportation, in a real highway, we brought in local government, to create demand for this new concrete. So with the start-up and our mayor and our city council, we passed a resolution to prefer low-carbon concrete in all new projects.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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start rebalancing 2
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