EARTHscope (ES)

Interactive geo-stories about the state of the Earth, our communities, and possible futures.

The EARTHscope (ES) initiative is aimed at developing online tools for displaying the profound, yet often invisible trends affecting global and local communities. The prototype version allows organizations to publish their information as engaging "geo-stories": downloadable presentations that combine dynamic maps with supporting graphics, imagery, sound, and text.

Fuller realized that humanity's long-term success or failure would depend in large part on our ability to make the invisible visible by:

• "Finding effective ways for all humanity to see total Earth"
• Gathering & mapping an inventory of the world's resources, human trends, and needs
• Designing "dramatic educational tools" to promote "World Literacy re: World Problems," including "dramatic indication of potential solution[s]"

BFI launched the EARTHscope (ES) project as an R & D initiative to help extend this important aspect of Buckminster Fuller's work to future generations.

The prototype development of the EARTHscope interface, publishing framework, and library is a small but important step toward transforming global and local data into powerful, easily accessed, geo-stories about the state of the Earth, our communities, and their possible futures.

EARTHSCOPE website