Green Options » Buckminster Fuller Challenge http://greenoptions.com/tag/buckminster-fuller-challenge Posts tagged 'Buckminster Fuller Challenge' Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:34:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Wanted: Your Solutions to Humanity’s Crises http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/09/18/wanted-your-solutions-to-humanitys-crises/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/09/18/wanted-your-solutions-to-humanitys-crises/#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:34:26 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/09/18/wanted-your-solutions-to-humanitys-crises/ Will Wright at Wikimedia Commons under a GNU General Public license.)The Brooklyn-based Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) has just announced its call for entries to the 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge. So if you’ve got a solution to the U.S. and global financial meltdowns, accelerating climate change, collapsing ecosystems and/or world poverty, the institute wants to hear it.

“We’re looking for comprehensive anticipatory design solutions that address multiple problems without creating new ones down the road — integrated strategies dealing with key social, economic, environmental, and cultural issues,” says Elizabeth Thompson, BFI’s executive director.

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