permaculture

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>]

Launch of Buckminster Fuller Institute award for "Design Revolution"

On the occasion of the 112th birthday of one of the 20th century's 
most prescient futurists and global thinkers, The Buckminster Fuller 
Institute (BFI) announces the launch of the first annual Buckminster 
Fuller Challenge.

Established to catalyze the vanguard of a global design revolution, 
the Challenge will award 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.

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.

Entries accepted September 4th - October 30th, 2007. This is a 
program of The Buckminster Fuller Institute. Contact us at: 
<mailto:challenge@bfi.org>challenge@bfi.org or visit 
<http://challenge.bfi.org/>http://challenge.bfi.org