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NOVEMBER 19th, 2007, NEW YORK CITY — The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) is delighted to announce the selection of the final two jurors for the first BUCKMINSTER FULLER CHALLENGE, an international design science challenge which seeks to confer a prize of $100,000 to a single winning solution. JANINE BENYUS and HUNTER LOVINS will join the five distinguished members of the 2007/2008 Challenge jury introduced previously. The full panel of jurors for the 2007/2008 Challenge is as follows: JANINE BENYUS, celebrated natural sciences writer, innovation consultant and author of six books including The New York Times bestseller Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. Co-Founder of The Biomimicry Institute; SIR NICHOLAS GRIMSHAW, renowned architect and President of the Royal Academy of Arts, London; HAZEL HENDERSON, futurist, author and consultant on sustainable human development and socially responsible business and investment; founder, Ethical Markets Media, llc; DANNY HILLIS visionary inventor, computer scientist, author, engineer; Chairman and CTO of Applied Minds, Inc., co-chairman of The Long Now Foundation; HUNTER LOVINS, President and founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions and co-author of nine books and hundreds of papers, including the 1999 bestseller Natural Capitalism; WILLIAM MCDONOUGH, sustainable design visionary, bestselling author, and founder of William McDonough + Partners, a leading architecture firm practicing cradle to cradle design; and VANDANA SHIVA, renowned physicist, author, and environmental activist, founder and Director, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, New Delhi. The sixth and seventh jurors will be announced shortly.