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Steve Schmidt, GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: In 1971, our Community Encounter class agreed with me to drive out to the Colorado River ("Let's go to 'the River'!) and together we constructed a Geodesic Domeas a demonstration project. The structure assembled was a success, it looked like this Desert Dome 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.... | Steve Schmidt, GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: In 1971, our Community Encounter class agreed with me to drive out to the Colorado River ("Let's go to 'the River'!) and together we constructed a Geodesic Domeas a demonstration project. The structure assembled was a success, it looked like this 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! | |||
<big>'''Spaceship Earth'''</big> | <big>'''Spaceship Earth'''</big> | ||
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Buckminster Fuller
About the Buckminster Fuller Institute
And to the Bioneers, and to Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists
FYI / Build Your Own Geodesic Dome
Desert Domes: Making the World a "Fuller" Place
Steve Schmidt, GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: In 1971, our Community Encounter class agreed with me to drive out to the Colorado River ("Let's go to 'the River'!) and together we constructed a Geodesic Domeas a demonstration project. The structure assembled was a success, it looked like this 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!
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
A Story: October 24, 1980, Steve Jobs Meets Buckminster Fuller
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