Last month, The Wall Street Journal ran a profile of BFI and 2011 Buckminster Fuller Challenge winner, Blue Ventures. Read.
Architecting the Future Recap
If you had hoped to attend Architecting the Future 2011 but missed out, you can still find documentation from each day of events here.
Happy Birthday, Bucky!
July 12th, 2011 marked the 116th anniversary of the birth of R. Buckminster Fuller. Encyclopedia Britannica Blog honored the date with a post about Bucky's significance in history. See it here a>.
Last month, 2010 Challenge winner Allan Savory and BFI Director Elizabeth Thompson were guests on Deepak Chopra's The Conversation. View the whole episode here a>.
The Norman Foster curated exhibit Bucky Fuller and Spaceship Earth has made its way to the Marta Herford Museum in Germany. The show will be open until September 18th. More.
World Peace Festival Berlin
The World Peace Festival's central event is a two day long international conference that will focus on the economic potential of global peace.
Climate Reality Project
On September 14th, the Climate Reality Project will launch its broadcast from every time zone and in thirteen different languages.
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