The Buckminster Fuller Institute announces the call for entries to the 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge.
The world financial system is in chaos; vital ecosystems are under stress; climate change and its consequences are daily news; and the bare essentials of human life - food, water, and shelter - remain out of reach for billions of people.
Challenges of this magnitude require bold, visionary strategies; they require what Buckminster Fuller called “a design revolution.” Great stand-alone solutions - pieces of a larger puzzle - are out there, but it will take more than an innovative gadget or isolated technological breakthrough to tackle the problems of a complex and interconnected world.
An annual $100,000 prize program to support the development and implementation of a solution that has significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems.
The deadline for entries is midnight (Eastern time) on November 7th, 2008. To enter go here.
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The Buckminster Fuller Challenge 2009
September 23, 2008 by Rich | 2 Comments
In Competition, Ideas, Innovation
cassy on September 23rd, 2008 at 7:52 pm
This is a very nice program. Its a big challenge to the people who will find a very good solution on how can we solve the problems that we incounter now a days.
100kjob on September 24th, 2008 at 12:49 am
very attractive prize - $100k, hope it get some good results