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Buckminster Fuller

About Geodesic Domes

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

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

• http://www.desertdomes.com/faq.html

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, we were amazed at what we built. The ribs of the river-adjacent dome in the desert 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! Thanks Bucky!!

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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