The Buckminster Fuller Institute

attach a sterling engine to use the waste heat from showers and the decomposing waste and you could generate electricity or run geothermal unit of some kind...this might not work at all but I can dream.

Johnny Cash Jack-o-Lantern! So cool, too bad we don't really do Halloween in Holland.

Sometime in the late '60's Buckminster Fuller proposed that dropping tractors out of B-52 bombers made more sense than dropping bombs. The tractors and the bombs carried exactly the same sticker-price. So, for approximately the same price as our ineffective carpet-bombing campaign, 100% of the US military's stated objectives would be achieved (... Read Moreexcept for the enrichment of the defense contractors engaged in bomb-making). But plenty of village infrastructure would be destroyed (by tractors falling through the roofs), approximately the same number of civilians would be crushed, and nearly all the other requisites for collateral damage would be satisfied, AND, in contradistinction to the aftermath of the carpet-bombing then occurring, the communities would be ENRICHED and be prepared to rebuild the infrastructure and transform their economy.

In effect, we would instantly create a capitalistic, entrepreneurial economy, based on a distributed industry of cannibalizing broken tractors (each would break in a different way, depending on how it landed) and thousands of people would find work remanufacturing them into working machines. Which would be used to replace human labor and seed the mechanized westernized post-agrarian economy based inevitably on on petroleum development is the South China Sea.

Mr. Fields, obviously you have not really checked out R. Buckminster Fuller's works... You would see that he tried to steer these phenomena, years ago, in a more rational way... anticipating the dilemma we now (society, the world) are just catching on to. Things might have gone otherways than they have... Greed has prevailed, against Mr. Fullers' sound advice.

You might try "Nine Chains to the Moon" for a start (just about any book by him has something of interest & relevancy to our time!).

He advocated Livingry over Weaponry by doing More with Less. Providing for our resource needs in efficient sustainable ways. Treating pollutants as a material resource instead of dumping them in the environment. I believe the dymaxion car got over 35 miles per gallon partially due to low weight and partially due to low drag coefficient usiing the principles of aircraft design..... not that it's internal combustion engine was different than other vehicles.

..."i endorse: The Buckminster Fuller Institute"

I still have my Bucky postcards from college when he was on the faculty of Southern Illinois University! we got to hear him lecture with some frequency and of course, notorious length!

Following up on the World Shelters story.

http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_13633559

”There's no variance, no conditional use permit, no need for public hearings,” LeBel said. “It's by right.”

yeah

On the wall above my monitor is a framed picture of RBF illustrating tensegrity with only his hands and a single rubber band. Vindication at last!