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It is my special pleasure to introduce our wonderful guest today.

I met Bill McDonough a few months ago.

We were both speaking at a conference in Hawaii, and after I heard him speak, I said,

oh my gosh, what do I need to do to get you to Stanford?

His talk was so provocative and so fascinating and clearly fit into a lot of the

missions that we have at Stanford here, especially focusing on energy and the environment.

Bill is really remarkable. I want to, and don't just listen to me, he literally was named

by Time Magazine, the Hero of the Planet. He, I'm not kidding, he run the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development

and the US EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award. He also is the author of the

best-selling and fabulous book, Cradle to Cradle. So without further ado, here we go. Thank you, Tina. Thank you, Tina. Hi, everybody. Well, today's

entitled, something lived and something dreamed, and it's about a celebration of abundance.

I think what we're looking at is the idea that if the human species is the dominant species,

that there's this opportunity we have by design to execute our intentions in ways that evidence intelligent life.

And perhaps we could celebrate the abundance of the sun, instead of bemoaning our limits on fossil fuels,

we could celebrate the abundance of materials, instead of bemoaning our limits to materials

and their toxification potentials and unoptimized flows and things like that.

So this is a celebration of the abundance of the world, and it's something lived because we live it every day,

and we do our best to deal with it by design, and it's something dreamed because we're dreaming of a future that is different.

I'm going to just quickly mention a few enterprises that I'm part of, so you get a sense of what I do.

I work with an architectural practice of William McDonough Partners, which is where I spend most of my time as an architect.

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