Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stable-state system" -- recycling food wastes and sewage into fertilizer to grow more food. "Then I thought, any group of people sensible enough to get their act together in this way would clearly do a lot of other things differently. So I began to think of things like extruded- plastic houses and wood architecture. And I moved on gradually through transportation, land-use patterns and a whole panoply of related things." Plastics? Made from plants and thus biodegradable. Aluminum and nonferrous metals? Ban them. Garbage? Recycle everything. Electric power? Build solar and thermal-sea power plants...
...challenge of modern life is to make it as emotionally healthy as life in a Stone Age village." Keep that in mind next time you fume over foul air and blaring traffic. Think of your Ecotopian future, smoking a joint on some peaceful municipal waterfront, watching the biodegradable plastic boats...
...judges identify themselves by wearing one white plastic hospital glove, inspiring Buchanan to call the event the "Michael Jackson Proctology Tournament...
Weaving through Patagonia jackets and turtlenecks, we squeezed through the 15-person-deep ring around the bar. Domestic beer is $2.25 and served in plastic cups, at least on crowded Friday nights...
True to its name, the Wursthaus was Germanic in its decorations--carved horses and shields and barrels and dark wood. It seemed as if everything around us was made of wood, except, of course, for the plastic grapes hanging from the shelves...