I believe that Buckminster Fuller's idea of the Trim tab is critical to understanding current stagnation of politics in Washington.

The small changes that would lead to big socially beneficial changes in Policy are not made because political people are busy making the small changes which will lead to bigger changes that are benificial to specific interests which they foster.
I am saying that unless the trim tab principal is openly discussed in government, vested interests will continue to employ it for narrow interests only.
A corrolary of this is that the public sector does have a special power which can be used to obtain leverage over social issues thru the leverage of the trim tab applied to the social rudder of a new policy applied to society..

Mouth of Babes is a new internet tv series that will begin airing June 2008. Ruthie our pregnant mother and Mikko her two year old son will demonstrate, practical, fun and easy foods that are particularly good for providing extra nutrients that pregnant mothers and young children need for brain and body development.

The show will be featured on the open source platform Miro and is geared towards sustainable, local communities and building them up through food and communication.

Mouth of Babes is currently open for sponsorship and is particularly interested in organizations who share the vision of a sustainable future for the coming generations. It is a grass roots movement which keeps our overhead low.

If you are interested in sponsoring this program please visit:

indiegogo.com/mouthofbabes

or

helladelicious.com

I am interested in starting a Synergetic Study/Practice Group in Los Angeles. I have a good meeting space in a quiet neighborhood. I also have a copy of Amy Edmondson's book that others can copy. This will be used as primary text.

Please contact me if you would be interested. I live in the Mid-Wilshire area.

G'day folks,

not 100% sure this post is appropriate or not. I just wanted to know whether anyone within the community had any comment to make on the science of implosion as it relates to Viktor Shaubergers work. i sell Vortex Energizers which have been inspired by the principles of implosion and attraction of 'ether'. This combination used to purify and energize water in a most practicle way.

The studies provided to me on their validity is not comprehensive, however, my personal use is comprehensive which is why I sell them.

Is there a belief within the community that current western science is the only measure of the validity of a particular theory?

Thankyou

Dane
Watershed1

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The Tanzania Sanitation Project is a non-profit mission aimed at creating a healthier, stronger, greener future of Tanzania.

Established by students and faculty of the United Nations International School in New York City, our project aims to implement a waste management system in Tanzania, one country where improper waste management uncontrollably affects and burdens the population’s daily lives.

The improper management of waste triggers severe environmental and health problems, with the consequences of poor waste management on human health and the environment becoming more noticeable each day. Garbage is piled in the open, posing health threats to children who play and live in the area. What is not collected is dumped is usually on the near street. These polluting wastes are breeding sites for insect-vectors, pests, snakes, and vermin that augment the likelihood of disease transmission. Additionally, studies prove that the majority of diseases in Tanzania are partly due to the failure to dispose of garbage correctly, which have resulted in many devastating and easily prevented diseases such as dysentery, diarrhea, scabies, skin diseases, eye problems, typhoid, and intestinal parasite becoming widespread among poorer communities.

Our objective will be achieved by taking a number of steps to improve not only the waste management in Tanzania but additionally to educate the citizens of the importance of environmental health. By implementing a sustainable waste management system in each village, enabling the community to recognize the damaging consequences their present improper waste management situation imposes on their environment and everyday lifestyles in addition to the awe-inspiring benefits that await a solution, and by recruiting local participation and efforts to dispose of their wastes properly, we will successfully achieve our goal.

In addition, the Tanzania Sanitation Project aims to ensure long-term sanitation sustainability and proper hygiene in Tanzania by educating the locals on environmental sanitation through garbage collection and disposal. Through the education, the project also aspires to provide numerous opportunities for those in the community. The implementation of a waste management system in each village should also open many doors to the locals, as they will be offered the chance to be apart of this beneficial project and maintain its system.

Aims:

• Sustainable waste management systems in targeted areas including collection, transportation and land filling.
• Prevention of pollution and littering
• Educating locals on environmental sanitation and the need for a proper management of waste
• Involvement and participation of the Tanzania community
• Employment opportunities

Anticipated Impacts of Tanzania Sanitation Project

• Efficient waste disposal and collection system
• A cleaner, healthier environment
Each year over 200 million tons of human waste and huge quantities of solid waste are uncollected and untreated around the world. This fouls the environment and exposes million of children to disease and squalor. Improved environmental sanitation leads to less environmental degradation, increased sustainability of environmental resources, and a safer atmosphere for children.
• Lower mortality rates
due to decreased rate of diarrhea and other diseases transmitted through wastes
88% of all diarrhoeal deaths are due to poor hygiene and lack of access to sanitation
Diarrhea: 2nd highest single cause of child mortality
Ratio by which improved sanitation reduces diarrhea-related deaths: 2/3
• Awareness of the significance of proper sanitation
• Long-term sanitation sustainability
• Decreased rates in unemployment

For additional information, please contact:

Katie Simon, ksimon@tanzaniasanitation.org or
Ms. Maria Kerins, mkerins@unis.org

• Or you can visit our website: www.tanzaniasanitation.org

Sir Norman Foster speaks about the birth and rise of sustainable thinking, technological solutions, and the influence of Buckminster Fuller. Running time 32:05.
Video Here

ROXY is a dome for your home!
Italian designer and architect Giulio Neri is producing a simple spherical lamp based on the plywood domes construction method. The lamp can be purchased as a kit for self assembly or ready made. It can be recycled and uses low consumption bulbs.

This piece of furniture shows how simple geodesic structures can be. It's intention is to bring geodesic structures at home, to delight us with their beauty, in useful furniture elements.

Meet ROXY @
www.giulioneri.com/design/roxy.html

Four very cold nights for college kids in Canada. Very interesting and educational reading.

http://www.5days.ca/

http://www.5days.ca/blog/

2008 Mar 31st - Mon at 6:00 PM

MICHAEL BEN-ELI, Ph.D.: Sustainability: The Five Core Principles

Potluck dinner & presentation by a leading international consultant and sustainability educator who was a close associate of Buckminster Fuller.

Location: Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) - 101 San Antonio Rd. - Petaluma, California 94955

bfi-internal.org/sustainability/principles

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Project "House-sphere ARK" Description.

Using the principles of design for DNA helix homes. Priority Patent-1990 "Folding structure-frame netted a shell of rotation".

"House-sphere ARK" is a unique educational environment for students and refugees as a result of natural disasters. The manufacture of netted shell, can minimize expense the energy and material costs. Diameter house - 3-9 metres. House-quick-assembly - composed of folding steel mesh, three-layer netted insulation, cement, sheet metal, plywood, fabric, polycarbonate windows.

Target groups: children, schoolchildren, nomads, students,
refugees as a result of natural disasters. The draft provides detailed instruction for all who will be able to build a house on low prices with a maximum conservation the atmosphere and energy.

The novelty of the project-use of local materials; bags of moss, fabric, warm air veneer sheets, steel wire. Spiral DNA technology- minus welding and less drilling, without waste. Portable Folding netted a shell, elements spirals
how genes 3000-4300 mm. length (XY chromosomes), node-bolt (Nucleotide). Manufacturing shell elements netted in a special machine-similar to the ribosome living cells. For residents in the building- mobile phone and the Internet. It is necessary to synthesis of knowledge about genetics, mechanics and architecture to create fantastic architectural diversity and sustainable development. Made mini "House-sphere ARK" (puppet theatre) for children with limited abilities. Stability of the future - is to use the structure of DNA. I believe that
New technology will help solve the problems of housing and creation a stable civil society.

Snowflakes are designs, crystals are designs, music is design, and the electromagnetic spectrum of which the rainbow colors are but one millionth of its range is design; planets, stars, galaxies, and their contained behaviors such as the periodic regularities of the chemical elements are all design accomplishments. If a DNA-RNA genetic code programs the design of roses, elephants, and bees, we will have to ask what intellect designed the DNA-RNA code as well as the atoms and molecules that implement the coded programs.
-R. Buckminster Fuller

Technology spiral DNA suitable for design airship and submarine, space houses and hothouses. Thousands of people are realizing that fundamental change is within reach. Measuring up to the target issues for sustainable construction. Quantum changes and replication. "House-sphere ARK"- invention is based on the spiral of DNA and topology XY genes. Steel wire springs shell- structure(frame) similar to DNA and proteins. XY elements of a steel wire and sheet steel are linked fastening bolts.

For transportation home Biosphere-used compact containers-2200-2260-4550 mm. The prototype structure of the "House-sphere ARK" patent-Shukhov V.G. Experiments in a magnetic field with a cages Faraday and Tesla, provides the optimum size of the cell to form the structure of the envelope.
Ethical standards and social justice. This project contributes to the creation of new jobs and the transfer of skills across the local population, thus increase community capacity for decision-making to improve the quality of life. "House-sphere ARK", which can be constructed, operated, and maintained
community with minimal external support technical activities.
Everyone will be able to build his house. Environmental quality and energy conservation.

I plan to build a "House-sphere ARK" on a bog. I developed a biotoilet and electrical generator for autonomous houses.
Synthesis of sustainable livelihoods DNA technology high-hume in the region promises to significantly increase the viability of local culture and environment. The project is important to promote the transfer and awareness-raising available natural and renewable energy sources. Economic performance and compatibility.

"House-sphere ARK"- two floors -55+27 m2., with the exterior surface of -254 m2.- $ 100 000.
The envelope can be manufactured at the plant or in the workshop. Contextual and aesthetic impact; The house is able to adapt to changes in temperature and humidity. Efforts to integrate with the environment leads to aesthetically accurate
contextual response, the architectural expression of energy-saving technologies high-hume.

So, we can not cover all of our planet a great American city.
One look at the planet, to convince you of this.
When flooding Biosphere - float.

Welcome to Reality!

After visiting America 1992 , and exploring all mighty U.S. first hand, Kevin Zaar, a Swedish punk queer dude realizes that the American dream is just that. A dream...

He is shocked to see and experience the coldness, roughness, lack of empathy and heart in the American society. He is left with a feeling of despair, realizing how the US influence interconnects with the global stupidity increasement and a soul less society generating consumerist slaves. He feels he wanna do something. But feel powerless to affect his future. He curse God, Universe, call it what ever. And don't wanna be here.

His name is Kevin Zaar and he is something as rare as a Swedish (!!!) documentary filmmaker in exile...

In exile due to the from US imported WAR on DRUGS, to peaceful neutral country of Sweden. By many believed an unjust and inhumane war. Kevin Zaar is a true DRUGWAR refugee and has experienced the consequences. He has not been able to see his family for the last five years to be able to put this highly critical perspective over a moral panic gone wild together. It became the pilot documentary REALITY PORTAL, part 1, FREEDOM FIGHTERS!

The documentary explores Swedish repressive society as well as exploring different faces of fascism globally. As well as Interconnects Insight, Inspiration and Igniting information.

It all started 15 years ago after Kevin came back to Sweden after spending half a year in the U.S. just to find out that American dream, was just that. A dream. An illusion. Feeling despair over the worldly stupidity increasement, Kevin felt he wanted to make a movie to transform the world. But he felt unable to affect the future and cursed God, universe, call it whatever and felt that hope, had abandon him...

Shortly after he accidentally hypnotizes a friend and connects with a timeless aware consciousness. Like an Oracle in Delphi experience. Egyptian interconnected goddess energy, Hatshepsut, the daughter of the Sun. Kevin is told to follow his heart and visions. Never to do egoistic things and that he’s been chosen to spread a greater awareness in the world - in a logical way.

He's told to never do egoistic things, always to follow his heart and to put a movie together to transform the World.

Now 2 documentary movies are finished and shared for free with humanity and an emerging INTER NET PORTAL (www.realityportal.info) providing you the uncensored news of the world. The movies are explosive and rocking... 2 movies are finished now... And you can see them live on Video Google.

The project has taken 15 years, from first idea till finished creation. From first idea of creating a movie that could transform the world, till actually growing, evolving so much so one realizes that one can do whatever one focuses on. And finally after a bumpy mount Everest like journey, managing putting together, creating one, after the visionary blueprint in your soul, one that might very well have a huge potential touching the hearts and minds of people, a movie that can inspire evolved domino effects of awareness and generate rings on the water globally.

The movies have been screened in a church, Mosque, Super Club, Boom festival, The Volskrant building (Amsterdam) and are being shared/spread in an myriad of ways around the World. It's also being donated to different truth movements to generate income as well as spreading awareness.

See the NEW eXplosive Awareness Evolving Trailer here...
http://www.youtube.com/realityportal

This is truly just the beginning. Welcome to the Reality Portal site... All done, created without money, on the run, to transform the future for mankind together with my friends...

Welcome to a synergetic exploration of the Universe.
Welcome to our all REALITY PORTAL...

Connecting Conscious Content

CLICK HERE FOR DIRECT ACCESS to REALITY PORTAL

2000 sq ft 38 ft diameter dome home for sale in Emerald Hills, CA -- Bucky made it energy efficient.
3 bedrooms and 2 baths on a third of an acre in Silicon Valley midway between San Francisco and San Jose.
Two-car garage in large basement with wine room.
See photos. $1,295,000 Call 650 364 3663

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Architects in Holland are showing the rest of the world a way of turning adversity into opportunity.

The inevitable rise in sea level that comes with climate change is going to make it increasingly difficult to control flooding in low-lying Holland. But instead of cursing their fate, architects are designing a new Holland that will float on water, and the Dutch government seems willing to try out the scheme. Holland has made other countries begin to question, too. Who says you have to live on dry land?

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Play to put famed architect on stage
A 'portrait' of R. Buckminster Fuller

Rubicon Theatre Company presents "R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe," which opened Thursday at the Rubicon Theatre, 1006 E. Main St. in Ventura.

The show, directed by D.W. Jacobs, is a portrait of 20th century architect, engineer and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller, who is known for creating the geodesic dome.

Fuller is played by character actor Joe Spano, who played Lt. Harry Goldblume on the television drama "Hill Street Blues."

Spano has also appeared in movies such as "Apollo 13," "American Graffiti" and "Hollywoodland."

Special performances of the show include a gala on Sat., Jan. 19, which starts with a preshow champagne reception; postshow discussions with the director and performers on Wed., Jan 23 and 30; and an audiodescribed performance on Sun., Feb. 3 for visually impaired and blind audience members, who may listen to a live description of the performance via headphones.

The show runs through Feb. 10. Showtimes and ticket prices vary.

For more information, call (805) 667-2900 or visit www.rubicontheatre.org

Bucky play link to Rubicon Theater

http://www.rubicontheatre.org/season/0708/02_mystery/index.php

Buckminster Fuller will live again when Emmy-award winner Joe Spano ("Hill Street Blues") recreates his lectures in "R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe." The show will be presented Jan. 17 - Feb. 10 at Rubicon Theatre Company, 1006 East Main Street, Ventura, CA.

Members of the BFI community are invited to join us and receive a $5.00 discount to any performance. Please call our box office at (805) 667-2900 and request the "Buckminster Fuller Website Discount." For further information, please see our website: http://www.rubicontheatre.org/season/0708/02_mystery/index.php

Hi All,

The following link is for the Foundations of Design course I give to 1st year students at the Holon Institute of Technology.

It has exercises, project ideas and galleries of student work, as well as lots of design resources that I have come across since mid 2005 when I started the blog.

http://hit-foundations-of-design.blogspot.com/

I hope you find it a useful resource :)
Mike
www.DigitalArtPrintGallery.com

There's a new ball for NYC's New Year!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/nyregion/04ball.html

Dear Fellow members,

Futurelgass produces innovative contemporary glass furniture. We ahve produced a table range caled Tensegrity as this was a name suggested to us, and after learning more about Buckminster Fuller, found it appropriate.

Thought it might be of general interest, look forwad ot your comments.

Many thanks

Gareth Phillips
Futureglass

www.Futureglass.com

BUCKMINSTER FULLER GEODESIC DOME IN NORTH CAROLINA

Our company's current mission is to acquire Shelton Cove Village, a parcel of land in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina (near Maggie Valley) that is home to the Aspenglow Retreat and Conference Center (comprised of several multi-use buildings on 37 acres of woodland, meadowland, a stream, areas suitable for hiking, wildlife, and other features of natural beauty) upon which to establish an eco-educational-health-spiritual center and community retreat, with a music and performing arena, gift shop, restaurant, nature sanctuary, and memorial garden. It is also home to a 50-ft. tri-level greenhouse from John Denver’s Windstar Foundation, erected there in 1986. Ultimately we will serve as a forum for fostering new attitudes by promoting an appreciation of nature, indigenous cultures, music and the arts, and serving as a network for the sharing of ideas, visions, and the highest aspirations of humanity...to offer a sense of how to make the world a more sustainable, equitable place for all peoples.

One of our goals is to investigate the viability of re-establishing the biodome as a functional environmental project, and add other alternative environmental technologies such as solar and wind, as well as a food co-op.

We are seeking an investor or investors to help us acquire the funds for purchase, repairs, and start-up capital. If anyone is interested in learning more, please contact us for our complete business plan!

Georgiann McDaniel, Eileen Stein, and Margit Voell
Peaceful Choices - peacefulchoicesinfo@yahoo.com

Hi folks,

I have just recently finished my first book outlining the details of a new philosophy, based to a large extent on Fuller's Synergetic Geometry. What I think will be of interest to Fuller fans everywhere, especially the more philosophically inclined, is the following. The goal of this work, similar to Fuller's, is to give a grounding of abstract concepts in the empirically-empowered imagination. I use visual means, namely diagrams, models, and visual-based explanations to unfold a conceptual and holarchical evolution or "embryogenesis" of fundamental mathematics. In its critique of standard mathematics and mathematical philosophy (meta-mathematics), this interpretation forms a bridge between Synergetic Geometry and standard mathematical thought. I argue and demonstrate that Fuller's geometrical system is more fully rational than standard mathematics because, among other reasons, it is fully empirical. I show also that hidden in the conceptual underpinnings of mathematics is an operational axis central to the unfolding of rational conceptuality itself. And Synergetic Geometry, I show, is centered on this hidden axis, deriving its first dimension in the setting of scale for the system. This is why Fuller's system is intrinsically four-dimensional. Three-dimensional geometrical systems neglect this hidden axis and do not fully or properly operationalize it. They merely embody what I call "representational relation", whereas four-dimensional systems, such as Bucky's, embody or encode "structural relation." This is why geometrical models of physics are necessarily four-dimensional, rather than three-dimensional. Real/physical relation is structural, not merely representational. It is the closing off of representation from its sub-representational substrate, I show, that is one hallmark of pre-rational models.

The book is free to download, and the purchase price of the print copy is reduced to that of the printing costs at lulu.com.

YOu can find the free ebook here:
http://www.spinbitz.net

...and the print version here:
http://www.lulu.com/spinbitz

Here's the back cover blurb. I hope you enjoy it and by all means feel free to ask for help or clarification on any issue.

Kind Regards,
Joel Morrison
www.spinbitz.net

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SpinbitZ is a playful, whirling, churning, folding and unfolding set of ideas for the illumination and integration of abstract philosophical concepts through the integrated use of the imagination and its percepts. SpinbitZ constructs a set of philosophical "graphical user-interfaces" at the vision-logic level of cognition. It is thus a philosophy of vision-logic interfaces, employing the "triune interfaces," or "cultivated thirds" hidden within the polarities of every duality, dichotomy, controversy and paradox to build a consistent system for the effective understanding and resolution of their key esoteric truths, rather than for their dualistic and reactionary refutation. In using these interfaces to trace a nondual thread of rationality to its historical roots, it is discovered that only the dualistic, exoteric (or commonly understood) forms of rationality begin with the Greek trinity: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. By reconnecting to the earlier nondual truths of Heraclitus and Parmenides, the conceptual axis-mundi itself (what Lao Tzu called "the door to all wonders") is found spinning at the core of Zeno's paradox, and thus at the core of nondual rationality. Through a fusion of Art, Science, Mathematics and Philosophy—and with the help of nearly a hundred detailed diagrams and illustrations—this embryogenesis of rationality is traced as it reconnects to the alternative lineage of philosophy uncovered by Deleuze, with a nondual fusion of the systems of Spinoza and Leibniz.
In esoteric Theosophy it is said that in the "shock" of the interface between Spinoza and Leibniz "the essence and Spirit of esoteric philosophy would be made to appear." Unfolding through these vision-logic interfaces, this Interface Philosophy finally appears to reconcile many of the dualities plaguing the history of exoteric rationality. In its nondual interface with empiricism and Integral theory, for example, a detailed sketch of an Interface Epistemology is unfolded. Operating at the crossroads of the ontic-epistemic (reality vs. knowledge) and subject-object polarities, the evolutionary symbiogenesis of the exoteric dichotomies at the foundations of human knowledge is examined—illuminating and reconciling the "ontic-shadow" of post-modernity.
The process of reanimating these hidden nondual truths of rationality demonstrates that mathematics itself mirrors this holarchic structure implicit in the embryogenesis of the concept. This is because mathematics, as the art and science of pure relation, employs the most rarefied and abstract form of the concept, e.g. numbers and operations. Unfolding in layer upon layer, this Interface Mathematics transitions from the "oppositional forces" of dualism, ultimately again to the "intensive," integral or "second-tier" truths, and to the originary axis-mundi of the nondual. In making mathematics visible, visceral and understandable—a Vision-Logic Coordinate System is constructed revealing two fundamental axes of conceptual thought (one of which is this axis mundi or immanent/transcendent axis). Spinoza's "three infinities" are then shown as the triune interface, or cultivating third between these binary axes, for illuminating and reconciling the many paradoxes and controversies of infinity—e.g. Zeno's, Galileo's and Cantor's—as they wind their way into the truths of our modern mathematics of the continuum and set-theory.

It would be very interesting to be able to buy, from the online store, a relatively large reproduction of the Profile of the Industrial Revolution.

It is as interesting as the Dymaxion map and other brilliant insights

Could this be printed on demand? Many people might want to buy this magnificent diagram in order to situate all kind of knowledge and to better understand the progress of science and technology.

I would like to be able to show it for a course in General Semantics. it would help put into perspective both the genius of Aristote (at his time) and the obsolescense of some of the structures of the language which we still speak and with which we think and act.

Just a note that the full transcripts of the Everything I Know lectures have been fully restored and are now available again on our site.

Click to access Everything I know

I hope that anyone interested in the Platonic solids will visit my website:

www.PlatonicSolids.info

I am a long-time follower of Fuller. I saw him speak in New York in the early eighties. Some of you may remember the educational product I created. It was a tensegrity model construction kit called FANTASTIX. They used to sell it in the BFI store among other places. I recently finished a computer-animated video about the Platonic solids. It is called Platonic Solid Rock. You can find it on YouTube. I created an informational website to go with the video. It has lots of great downloadable graphics like the spinning shapes in this posting. There are also lots of other educational and fun resources on the site. Check back from time to time for updates. I will soon be publishing a ninety-page book on the Platonic solids with beautiful color graphics. I hope you enjoy it!

On November 15th, Kansas City Southern destroyed the 49 year old dome on its property just north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. One of the biggest geodesic domes in the world and the first to be used for industrial purposes, Fuller himself oversaw its construction. Despite a strong local drive for preservation and less than a year from obtaining official historic status, KCS demolished the dome quietly without discussing its fate with any concerned parties.

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/11880141.html?index=1&c=y

People can and do change. Buckminster Fuller through his example showed us how to take the path less traveled. The essence to change is how to economically become self sufficient. His concept of PRECESSION, along with four other powerful concepts to empowerment, are outlined in this essay. References to source material are also provided for those who want to fully research and make their life and its action matter.