Published September 14th, 2010 at 6:48 pm in Announcements, Carbon Conundrum, Fuel alternatives, agriculture, architecture with no comments
Tagged with architexture, BFI 2011 Challenge, Buckminster Fuller, buckminster fuller challenge, geodesic dome, green building, sustainability, sustainable solutions
Buckminster Fuller, designer of the geodesic dome Source: BFI
For those still considering creating one of this world’s next great solutions, there are but 15 days left to prepare and submit applications for the 2011 Buckminster Fuller Challenge. Those standing on the sidelines should run onto the plying field; our world needs the help.
This important global event is considered by some to be one of socially responsible design’s highest awards. This premier international prize program awards $100,000 to support the development and implementation of a solution that, broadly stated, “has significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems.”
According to the BFI Challenge, entering creates “an opportunity to become part of a network that is advancing and accelerating the practice of whole systems thinking and design to develop the kind of high impact global solutions we so desperately need.”
The Buckminster Fuller Institute, named after Buckminster Fuller, creator of the geodesic dome, was created to share and advance imaginative work that might lead the way to solving problems for global housing and infrastructure requirements.
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Published June 23rd, 2010 at 12:11 pm in Food & Growing, agriculture with no comments
Tagged with ACHM, BFI, buckminster fuller challenge, land management, Operation Hope, Savory Institute, Zimbabwe
Land monitoring
This June the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI), founded after the man who made the geodesic dome a household word, awarded its 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge prize of $110,000 to African-based Operation Hope for its promising work to transform degraded Zimbabwe grasslands and savannas into a sustainable environment.
The grand prize was well deserved. Here’s why: smart land management work like this can foster water and food security for millions of impoverished people that have suffered for years without such living basics. Read more of this >>
Published October 14th, 2009 at 3:35 pm in Announcements, Events, Great Green Building Blocks with no comments
Tagged with architecture. innovation, best environmental practices, bfi.org, buckminster fuller challenge, elizabeth thompson, geodisic dome, global building solutions, innovation, inventions, sustainability
It is nearing time to be excited about the human spirit of innovation and invention.
I recommend visiting the Buckminster Fuller Challenge 2010, and looking at some of the entries from previous challenges, particularly the winners from last year (2009). Read more of this >>
