FW: Twenty-four Outstanding Challenge Entries Advanced
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TWENTY-FOUR OUTSTANDING CHALLENGE ENTRIES ADVANCED TO THE NEXT ROUND OF
REVIEW
FEBRUARY 4th, 2008 NEW YORK CITY - The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) is
pleased to announce that twenty-four outstanding entries to the BUCKMINSTER
FULLER CHALLENGE have been advanced to the next stage of the selection
process.
"The 250 entries we received for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge included a
very broad and varied set of initiatives, all characterized by a deep sense
of purpose, stewardship and humanitarian activity. To witness such a
demonstration of responsibility, initiative and sense of purpose was very
inspiring. While only twenty-four were selected to advance to the next
round, every entry deserves respect and appreciation", remarked Elizabeth
Thompson, Executive Director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute.
As a group, the twenty-four solutions advanced are a set of world-changing
applications of technology and know-how that have the potential to
revitalize struggling economies, restore fragile environments, provide food,
water, and shelter to those most in need, and shift our fundamental
understandings of how energy is produced and stored. The entries present
diverse solutions that range from a modular, carbon-neutral home; a
comprehensive plan for regenerating the environment and economy of
Appalachia; a simple and elegant plan for farm and ranchland sustainability;
to a broad and expansive new theory of energy and atomic structure. A common
thread linking all of these solutions is a deep concern for humanity, and an
inspired commitment to addressing - and indeed solving - the most critical
issues facing the world today.
The Buckminster Fuller Challenge jurors will engage in final deliberations
in mid-March, 2008. A winner will be selected in April. The distinguished
jurors for the 2007-2008 Challenge are: JANINE BENYUS
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six books including The New York Times bestseller Biomimicry: Innovation
Inspired by Nature. Co-Founder of The Biomimicry Institute; SIR NICHOLAS
GRIMSHAW
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HAZEL HENDERSON
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socially responsible business and investment; founder, Ethical Markets
Media, llc; DANNY HILLIS
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5> visionary inventor, computer scientist, author, engineer; Chairman and
CTO of Applied Minds, Inc., co-chairman of The Long Now Foundation; HUNTER
LOVINS
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nine books and hundreds of papers, including the 1999 bestseller Natural
Capitalism; WILLIAM MCDONOUGH
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William McDonough + Partners, a leading architecture firm practicing cradle
to cradle design; and VANDANA SHIVA
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5> , renowned physicist, author, and environmental activist, founder and
Director, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, New
Delhi.
Inspired by the life and work of visionary 20th Century futurist and global
thinker, R. Buckminster Fuller, The Buckminster Fuller Challenge seeks
solutions that epitomize what Fuller called the trimtab principle
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right time and place can produce maximum advantageous change.
The $100,000 prize will be conferred to the winner of the first Buckminster
Fuller Challenge in late June 2008 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in
New York City.
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5> The Buckminster Fuller Challenge PDF Announcement
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5> > Download the Challenge Announcement as PDF with graphics
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