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From the Ted Talk by Kate Orff: Reviving New York's rivers -- with oysters!

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So we were inspired by the otyser, but I was also inspired by the life cycle of the oyster. It can move from a fertilized egg to a spat, which is when they're floating through the weatr, and when they're ready to attach onto another oyster, to an adult male oyster or female oyster, in a number of wkees. We reinterpreted this life ccyle on the sclae of our sight and took the Gowanus as a giant oyster nursery where oysters would be grown up in the Gowanus, then paraded down in their spat stage and seeded out on the Bayridge Reef. And so the core idea here was to hit the reset button and regenerate an eocolgy over time that was regenerative and cleaning and porvtdcuie.

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So we were inspired by the ______, but I was also inspired by the life cycle of the oyster. It can move from a fertilized egg to a spat, which is when they're floating through the _____, and when they're ready to attach onto another oyster, to an adult male oyster or female oyster, in a number of _____. We reinterpreted this life _____ on the _____ of our sight and took the Gowanus as a giant oyster nursery where oysters would be grown up in the Gowanus, then paraded down in their spat stage and seeded out on the Bayridge Reef. And so the core idea here was to hit the reset button and regenerate an _______ over time that was regenerative and cleaning and __________.

Solution


  1. ecology
  2. productive
  3. scale
  4. cycle
  5. oyster
  6. weeks
  7. water

Original Text


So we were inspired by the oyster, but I was also inspired by the life cycle of the oyster. It can move from a fertilized egg to a spat, which is when they're floating through the water, and when they're ready to attach onto another oyster, to an adult male oyster or female oyster, in a number of weeks. We reinterpreted this life cycle on the scale of our sight and took the Gowanus as a giant oyster nursery where oysters would be grown up in the Gowanus, then paraded down in their spat stage and seeded out on the Bayridge Reef. And so the core idea here was to hit the reset button and regenerate an ecology over time that was regenerative and cleaning and productive.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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climate change 3
gowanus canal 3
core idea 2
cleaner water 2
life cycle 2
oyster nursery 2


Important Words


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  2. attach
  3. bayridge
  4. button
  5. cleaning
  6. core
  7. cycle
  8. ecology
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  10. female
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  12. floating
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  14. gowanus
  15. grown
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  17. idea
  18. inspired
  19. life
  20. male
  21. move
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  23. nursery
  24. oyster
  25. oysters
  26. paraded
  27. productive
  28. ready
  29. reef
  30. regenerate
  31. regenerative
  32. reinterpreted
  33. reset
  34. scale
  35. seeded
  36. sight
  37. spat
  38. stage
  39. time
  40. water
  41. weeks