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We want to accelerate adoption of sustainable building and development practices.
我們想要提高高承受性建筑及其應用的采納度。
We want more innovation.
我們想擁抱更多革新。
But a lot of times, whole categories of innovation --
但是很多情況卻是，目錄上所有革新當中，
ones that can help us live more beautifully -- turn out to be illegal.
那些能夠幫助我們生活更美好的，最終往往不合法。
Today's regulations and codes were written under the assumption
如今的法規和條例都是基于假設所寫。
that best practices would remain best practices, with incremental updates forever and ever.
那些優質實踐永遠都是優質的，伴隨著的只是不斷疊加的升級工程。
But innovation isn't always incremental.
但是創新不總是疊加的。
It turns out, how we feel about any particular new technique gets into everything we do:
事實證明，我們對任何新技術的看法會進入到我們生活的方方面面：
how we talk about it, how we encourage people to study, our jokes, our codes.
我們討論它的時候，我們鼓勵他人的時候，我們的笑話，甚至條例當中……
And it ultimately determines how innovative we can be.
這將最終決定我們能富有多少革新精神。
So, that's the first reason we don't innovate in sanitation.
這也是我們不愿在衛生設施體系當中革新的第一個理由。
We're kind of uncomfortable talking about sanitation, that's why I've gotten called "The Poo Princess" so much.
我們在一定程度上是不愿討論衛生體系的，這也是我被如此頻繁的被稱為“大便女皇”的原因。
The second reason is: we think the problem is solved here in the US. But not so.
第二個理由是：我們認為這個問題在美國這兒已經被解決了。但事實并非如此
Here in the US we still get sick from drinking shit in our sewage water.
在美國我們依然會因為飲用含有糞便成分的陰溝水而生病。
Seven million people get sick every year, 900 die annually.
每年有700萬人因此生病，一年會有900人死于此因。
And we're not taking a holistic approach to making it better. So we're not solving it.
但我們并沒有運用一個更加徹底有效的方法來改善現狀。也就是說，我們并沒有解決問題。
Where I live in Portland, Oregon, I can't take Echo for a swim during the rainy season,
在我住的地方：俄勒岡州波特蘭市，我都無法回應你在雨季游泳的感受，
because we dump raw sewage sometimes into our river.
因為我們時常把未處理過的污水直接倒進河里。
Our rainwater and our sewage go to the same treatment plant. Too much rain overflows into the river.
我們的雨水和污水會進入相同的處理池。這樣，過多的雨水就會進入河流之中。
