On the occasion of Bucky's 112th birthday The Buckminster Fuller Institute announces the launch of the first annual BUCKMINSTER FULLER CHALLENGE. http://challenge.bfi.org
Established to catalyze the vanguard of a global design science revolution, the Challenge will offer a single $100,000 prize annually to support the development and implementation of a solution with significant potential to solve the world's most pressing problems in the shortest possible time while enhancing the Earth's ecological integrity.
Entries will be accepted beginning September 4th, 2007. The first prize will be conferred in June of 2008, timed to coincide with the opening of the first major retrospective exhibition of Buckminster Fuller's work in the US at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
After decades of tracking world resources, innovations in science and technology, and human needs, Fuller asserted that options exist to successfully surmount the crises of unprecedented scope and complexity facing humanity. He issued an urgent call for a design science revolution to make the world work for all. The Buckminster Fuller Challenge intends to further this urgent call.
WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO PARTICIPATE!
http://challenge.bfi.org
Please see these comments:
http://bfi.org/forum/domes/monolithic_dome#comment-596
http://bfi.org/forum/domes/geodisic_dome_windmill#comment-597
Thank you,
Jonathan P. Chance
http://JPChance.Org
Hi there,
I am new to this forum. Does anyone know of a dome that is able to withstand 9.2+ earthquakes?
ABS
www.RogerART.com & www.EarthBall.org & www.OneGlobalCommunity.com
Hello All...
more info at...
http://www.EarthBall.org
EarthBall Homes and Greenhouses, will enter soon
This is great news 4 us... have been trying 2 get EarthBall.org project off the ground and build the first one 4 the past 2 + years
Ideas U may have 4 E.B.A. from anyone/anywhere on Earth WANTED
contact, Roger@EarthBall.org 603 569 1799 anyGLOBALtime
Later & Peace. Roger Drowne EC
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Let's End All War
Clean Up OUR Earth
and
Create Earth Ball Abodes and Greenhouses 4 Earth Citizens ( ALL ) Around OUR Earth
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Here are the results from ShelterMe competition. Lots of food for thought.
http://www.design21sdn.com/competitions/7
This is the Living Box competition.
http://www.edilportale.com/livingbox/searchlivingbox.asp
Shelter In A Cart competition.
http://www.designboom.com/contest/winner.php?contest_pk=10
...such a great idea...i hope that BFI gets swamped with solutions!!! cheers, thomas
Way to go, BFI! This will get the juice flowing.