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I am a graduate student working on a research project on Buckminster Fuller. I am looking for a comprehensive list of Fuller’s buildings. If anyone knows this information or has any ideas on how to help with my research I would greatly appreciate it.
You can email me at vivianjoyner@gmail.com

A post I made to Geodesic List and Geodesichelp.

http://lists.sculptors.com/pipermail/geodesic/

http://groups.google.com/group/geodesichelp

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Dennis Dreher, Nick Tomlin, Jama and I went to the Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine this weekend. We decided the fair deserves to have a geodesic dome in it next year! We are on it.

http://www.mofga.org/

http://www.synergeticscollaborative.org/snec.meeting.2010.06/workshops.html

http://www.wabi.tv/news/14487/common-ground-fair-is-an-organic-success-i...

Must see. Where we are now...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5fyIUQRJRc

JenJoy writes:

Hi everyone,

We could use some volunteer help with the events coming up in the San
Francisco Bay Area 9/12-9/19. If you are interested or know someone who
is, please have them contact JenJoy Roybal at jroybal@bfi.org about the
details.

http://www.bfi.org/node/2132

Here is an important article in the NY Times which mentions our friends in Arcata at World Shelters. Hi Bruce. (there are two corrections the Times points out on page 1)

"The first few dozen HabiHuts have been manufactured, with several in use in Kenya, two in Haiti and another 20 en route to Haiti for sale."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/garden/12portable.html

For the structure designers in BFI.

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/oaktree/geodesica/index.htm

Image - Convolvulaceae from Geodesica

A recently completed summer school math course at Reed College, offered through Oregon's Saturday Academy, featured quite a bit of Buckaroo (sounds down-under). The name of this course: Martian Math. The idea: students chose from along a time line, and learned different lore and skills from different eras. Martian Math is from the future.

Links:

http://www.mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2102469&tstart=0
http://www.4dsolutions.net/satacad/martianmath/toc.html
http://wikieducator.org/Martian_Math
http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/browse_thread/thread/af25228...
http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2010/08/more-martian-math.html

The attachments below are from Notes for Teachers where I get into the nitty gritty of tetrahedral mensuration, per the Wikipedia article on Synergetics. Takes some getting used to, but well worth the effort.

Kirby Urner

Autobio:
http://wikieducator.org/User:KirbyUrner/Autobio
c.v.
http://grunch.net/kirby-urner

Isn't it obvious? Let's hope so.

“This new science of altruism and the physiological underpinnings of compassion is finally catching up with Darwin's observations nearly 130 years ago, that sympathy is our strongest instinct,” Keltner said.

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/12/08_survival_of_kinde...

This is rolled up steel dome, ready to travel. I haven't posted any pics here yet so this is a test.

Today's news.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgXL12Tr8PA

http://communications.uwo.ca/com/western_news/stories/nasa_telescope_fin...