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Buckminster Fuller

About Geodesic Domes

About the Buckminster Fuller Institute

And a tip of our green cap to the Bioneers, winners of the Buckmister Fuller Award, and to all of our Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists

Yes, this is a good starting place !

FYI / Build Your Own Geodesic Dome

Desert Domes: Making the World a "Fuller" Place

• http://www.desertdomes.com/about.html

• http://www.desertdomes.com/faq.html

Going Geodesic

"The stars were talking to us that night and we listened - and we talked back to the constellations above us"

Today, in 2023, we're singing of how we, humanity, came out of Africa and we're looking at images of the Rift taken from the International Space Station in a flat, desolate, barren flatlands that's south of the Zambezi.... in the San world of the indigenous people, the aborigine. Some say these people are the oldest old tribe of ancients left in this modern world.

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The ancient San talk to the stars they say and their world used to be rich. Now most all of what used to be the richness is gone.

They feel sorry for us, for we are 'ill' they say in an attempt at comforting, we cannot talk to the stars as they do, so there must be something wrong with us.

And we remember Carl Sagan now who spoke of 'science' of the stars and how we are 'made from stars' and so we feel better, but we still cannot feel the stars that we came from .....

"We are made of star stuff"

-- Carl Sagan

Stardust Origins

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Stardust_Origins

From Eco at GreenPolicy360, a half century+ later ... as The River flows

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Steve Schmidt, GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: In 1971, our Community Encounter class at the University of Southern California, fresh from the peace movement and start up of the first Earth Day, agreed to drive out to the Colorado River ("Let's go to 'the River'!) and together we constructed a Geodesic Dome as a demonstration project. The structure assembled was a success, the stars surrounding us in the desert night were bright and we were amazed at what we built. The ribs of the river-adjacent dome looked like the 'Desert Dome' above and our class drove back to Los Angeles later in the week and celebrated. I especially remember the Allman Brothers music that accompanied our trip, "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed"...

There's music in being creative! Thanks Bucky!!

Tip of our green hat too to USC - and the Triponent House of Bernard Judge

his architectural papers now residing in a Special Collection at UCSB - Arts Building Room

• https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8pg1x5b/entire_text/
• https://greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Spaceship_Earth-Buckminster_Fuller.jpg

From the Orion Spaceship

At Epcot, Florida

Spaceship Earth

(Wikipedia)

Spaceship Earth (or Spacecraft Earth or Spaceship Planet Earth) is a worldview encouraging everyone on Earth to act as a harmonious crew working toward the greater good.

The phrase ("Spaceship Earth") was popularized by Buckminster Fuller, who authored the 1968 book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. This quotation, referring to fossil fuels, reflects his approach:

... we can make all of humanity successful through science's world-engulfing industrial evolution provided that we are not so foolish as to continue to exhaust in a split second of astronomical history the orderly energy savings of billions of years' energy conservation aboard our Spaceship Earth. These energy savings have been put into our Spaceship's life-regeneration-guaranteeing bank account for use only in self-starter functions. (Boldface added)

Re: Bucky Fuller writing about "self-starter functions"

The fossil fuel deposits of our Spaceship Earth correspond to our automobile's storage battery which must be conserved to turn over our main engine's self-starter. Thereafter, our main engine, life regenerating processes, must operate exclusively on our vast daily energy income from the powers of wind, tide, water, and the direct Sun radiation energy. The fossil-fuel savings account has been put aboard Spaceship Earth for the exclusive function of getting the new machinery built with which to support life and humanity at ever more effective standards of vital physical energy and reinspiring metaphysical sustenance to be sustained exclusively on our Sun radiations and Moon pull gravity's tidal, wind, and rainfall generated pulsating and therefore harnessable energies. The daily income energies are excessively adequate for the operation of our main industrial engines and their automated productions. The energy expended in one minute of a tropical hurricane equals the combined energy of all the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. nuclear weapons. Only by understanding this scheme may we continue for all time ahead to enjoy and explore universe as we progressively harness evermore of the celestially generated tidal and storm generated wind, water, and electrical power concentrations. We cannot afford to expend our fossil fuels faster than we are recharging our battery, which means precisely the rate at which the fossil fuels are being continually deposited within Earth's spherical crust.

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

(Submitted 03/08/2010)

Chapter 1. Comprehensive Propensities

Chapter 2. Origins of Specialization

Chapter 3. Comprehensively Commanded Automation

Chapter 4. Spaceship Earth

Chapter 5. General Systems Theory

Chapter 6. Synergy

Chapter 7. Integral Functions

Chapter 8. Regenerative Landscape

* https://web.archive.org/web/20100717141812/http://bfi.org/about-bucky/resources/books/operating-manual-spaceship-earth

A Story: October 24, 1980, Steve Jobs Meets Buckminster Fuller

• https://www.fastcompany.com/90772658/what-steve-jobs-learned-from-buckminster-fuller-during-their-only-meeting

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