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Buckminster Fuller

• https://www.bfi.org/

SJS: Thx Bucky

Here's to

Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists

and to memories of geodesic domes

* https://greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Buckminster_and_a_Geodesic_Dome.jpg

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Watch Bucky explain ... Spaceship Earth travel and on and on....

Yes, we're along for a ride thru space and time

• https://youtu.be/tM05d9Nuylk?si=SY9XP8ybo5hoxvua

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SJS:

Memories of Geodesic Domes, Teaching "Community Encounter", a Class Construction Project, a 'field-trip' to BLM land, a field alongside the Colorado River. The goal: to build a geodesic dome and after assembling it to camp & live in it 'off the grid', 'lightly', 'ecologically' for three days... then disassemble the dome, repack it in our caravan of cars and a truck, drive back to Los Angeles.... and then in the the next class session discuss 'key learnings.'

Our class experience, in 1971, was successful albeit complicated ;-

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic_dome

More on SoCal domes and Bucky inspirations

• https://socalarchhistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/living-lightly-on-land-bernard-judges.html

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/the-architectural-genius-of-the-geodesic-dome-and-the-challenge-of-putting-it-all-back-together-180982492/

Visit the Buckminster Archive / Stanford University

• https://www.buckminsterfuller.net/resources/research-at-archive.html

FYI / Build Your Own Geodesic Dome

Desert Domes: Making the World a "Fuller" Place

By Tara Landry

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

• http://www.desertdomes.com/faq.html

• https://www.desertdomes.com/tips.html

And, then there's a Big Version of Spaceship Earth 'Geodesically'.

One of the most famous geodesic domes is Spaceship Earth at EPCOT in Disney World, Florida. The EPCOT icon's adaptation of Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome.

GreenPolicy360's founder was invited in the early 80s by the Disney company to the opening of Epcot and the Spaceship Earth exhibit to report on 'how far Disney has gone since Mickey Mouse in "Steamboat Willie". Toot, steam whistle, they even gave me an archival wooden cabinet from their Studio in the Valley. Its drawers were for art, cells, renderings... and yes Disney went a long way from the hand-drawn celluloid cartoons to theme parks Disneyland, Disney-world... The day the Epcot gates opened, it was blue skies and there in Florida was a Very Big Spaceship Earth.... and of course a ride and a voice guide. We used to call the best rides E-tickets. For me E-tiks will be forever, altho' now the tiks are just digital bits...

Onward #PlanetCitizens

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceship_Earth_(Epcot)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboat_Willie

* https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Spaceship_Earth_%283-4_crop%29.jpg

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