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

Unscramble the Blue Letters


When I went to Yale, we had the first energy crisis, and I was designing the first solar-heated house in Ireland as a student, which I then bluit — which would give you a sense of my ambition. And Richard Meier, who was one of my teachers, kept coming over to my desk to give me criticism, and he would say, "Bill, you've got to understand- — solar energy has nothing to do with architecture." I guess he didn't read vritvuius. In 1984, we did the first so-called "green office" in America for Environmental dfsneee. We seatrtd asking manufacturers what were in their materials. They said, "They're proprietary, they're legal, go away." The only indoor qtauliy work done in this country at that time was sponsored by R.J. Reynolds tocbaco cnmoapy, and it was to prove there was no danger from secondhand smoke in the workplace.

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When I went to Yale, we had the first energy crisis, and I was designing the first solar-heated house in Ireland as a student, which I then _____ — which would give you a sense of my ambition. And Richard Meier, who was one of my teachers, kept coming over to my desk to give me criticism, and he would say, "Bill, you've got to understand- — solar energy has nothing to do with architecture." I guess he didn't read _________. In 1984, we did the first so-called "green office" in America for Environmental _______. We _______ asking manufacturers what were in their materials. They said, "They're proprietary, they're legal, go away." The only indoor _______ work done in this country at that time was sponsored by R.J. Reynolds _______ _______, and it was to prove there was no danger from secondhand smoke in the workplace.

Solution


  1. company
  2. quality
  3. vitruvius
  4. tobacco
  5. started
  6. defense
  7. built

Original Text


When I went to Yale, we had the first energy crisis, and I was designing the first solar-heated house in Ireland as a student, which I then built — which would give you a sense of my ambition. And Richard Meier, who was one of my teachers, kept coming over to my desk to give me criticism, and he would say, "Bill, you've got to understand- — solar energy has nothing to do with architecture." I guess he didn't read Vitruvius. In 1984, we did the first so-called "green office" in America for Environmental Defense. We started asking manufacturers what were in their materials. They said, "They're proprietary, they're legal, go away." The only indoor quality work done in this country at that time was sponsored by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, and it was to prove there was no danger from secondhand smoke in the workplace.

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Important Words


  1. ambition
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  30. richard
  31. secondhand
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  41. vitruvius
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  44. yale