Resources
1The Buckminster Fuller Institute
3 Founded in 1983, The Buckminster Fuller Institute serves a global network of design science innovators working at the leading edge of the design revolution Fuller inspired, including the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, an annual $100,000 prize to support the development and implementation of solutions to humanity’s most pressing problems.
4 181 N. 11th St., Suite 402 / Brooklyn, NY 11211 / 718 290-9280
5 The R. Buckminster Fuller Archive
6www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/fuller/index.html
7 Called in 1976 by archivists from the Smithsonian Institution, ‘‘the most extensive personal archive in existence,’’ the collection contains over 1,300 linear feet of papers and manuscripts, 2,000 hours of video and audio recordings, and thousands of models and other artifacts.
8 Department of Special Collections / The Stanford University Libraries / Stanford
9 CA 94305
10 The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
12 Fostering the preservation, publication, and dissemination of Buckminster Fuller’s legacy.
13 P. O. Box 3248 / Santa Barbara, CA 93130 / Fax: 805 456-2912
14 The Earth Policy Institute
16 The Earth Policy Institute, dedicated to building a sustainable future as well as providing a plan of how to get from here to there, publishes the remarkable book Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization by founder and President Lester R. Brown (free online access).
17 1350 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 403 / Washington, DC 20036 / Fax: 202 496-9325
18 The ONE Campaign
20 The campaign to make poverty history is over 2.4 million people committed to raising public awareness about the issues of global poverty, hunger, disease, and efforts to fight such problems in the world’s poorest countries.
21 Rocky Mountain Institute
23 An independent, entrepreneurial, nonprofit organization fostering the efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, just, prosperous, and life sustaining, co-founded by scientist Amory Lovins, and featuring publications such as their groundbreaking Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs, and Security (free online access).
24 2317 Snowmass Creek Road / Snowmass, CO 81654 / 970 927-3851
25 The We Campaign
27 A project of The Alliance for Climate Protection—a nonprofit, nonpartisan effort founded by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore that aims to halt global warming through educating people in the U.S. and around the world that the climate crisis is both urgent and solvable.
Bibliography
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28Margaret Fuller and Arthur B Fuller. Woman in the nineteenth century: and kindred papers relating to the sphere condition and duties of woman. Boston: Roberts brothers, 1874.
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29R. Buckminster Fuller. Operating manual for spaceship earth. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969. isbn: 080932461X.
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30R. Buckminster Fuller and E. J. Applewhite. Synergetics; explorations in the geometry of thinking. New York: Macmillan, 1975. isbn: 002541870X.
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31R. Buckminster Fuller and E. J Applewhite. Synergetics 2: explorations in the geometry of thinking. 1st Macmillan pbk. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1979. isbn: 0020926405.
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32Marilyn Ferguson. The Aquarian conspiracy: personal and social transformation in the 1980s. 1st ed. Los Angeles: J. P. Tarcher, 1980. isbn: 0312904185 (St. Martin’s Press). url: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0737/79091722-b.html.
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33R. Buckminster Fuller. Critical path. 1st ed. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1981. isbn: 0312174888.
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34R. Buckminster Fuller. Grunch of giants. 1st ed. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1983. isbn: 0312351933.