1. The R. Buckminster Fuller FAQ Answers to frequently asked questions on fuller, compiled by Christopher J. Fearnley from the discussions on the Bitnet mailing list Geodesic and its Usenet gateway. http://www.cjfearnley.com/fuller-faq.html

Next Previous Contents The R. Buckminster Fuller FAQ Christopher J. Fearnley, cjf@CJFearnley.com v.1.4.0, 6 November 2002 This is the Frequently Asked Questions and Answers (FAQ) Resource on R. Buckminster Fuller . It is based primarily on the history of the discussions, interests, and needs of the readers of the BITNET mailing list Geodesic and its USENET gateway bit.listserv.geodesic (I will use the word ``GEODESIC'' or sometimes simply ``the list'' to refer to these two gatewayed discussion areas). Some of the information could be in error (especially addresses and phone numbers). Please send all errors and suggestions to the FAQ maintainer, Chris Fearnley ( cjf@CJFearnley.com Introduction Synergetics What is a tetrahedron (tetra), octahedron (octa), and an icosahedron (icosa)? ... Next Previous Contents

2. Who Is Buckminster Fuller? made in 1980 by the late R. buckminster fullerinventor, architect, engineer, mathematician, poet and as 1959, Newsweek reported that fuller predicted the conquest of poverty by http://www.bfi.org/introduction_to_bmf.htm

Who Is Buckminster Fuller? Fuller's Basic Biography In Fuller's Words Stories about Bucky Books and Publications by Fuller ... Awards Newsweek During the course of his remarkable experiment he: Today over 300,000 domes dot the globe. Plastic and fiberglass "radomes" house delicate radar equipment along the Arctic perimeter, and “radome” weather stations withstand winds up to 180 mph. Corrugated metal domes have given shelter to families in Africa, at a cost of $350 per dome. The U.S. Marine Corps hailed the geodesic dome as "the first basic improvement in mobile military shelter in 2,600 years." The world’s largest aluminum clear-span structure is a geodesic dome which houses the “ Spruce Goose Fuller was one of the earliest proponents of renewable energy sources–solar (including wind and wave)–which he incorporated into his designs. He claimed, "there is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance." His research demonstrated that humanity could satisfy 100% of its energy needs while phasing out fossil fuels and atomic energy. For example, he showed that a wind generator fitted to every high-voltage transmission tower in the U.S. would generate three-and-a-half times the country’s total recent power output. Find: About the BFI News Glossary Who is Buckminster Fuller?

3. R. Buckminster Fuller's Synergetics Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking. by. R. buckminster fuller. in collaboration with EJ Applewhite. First Published by Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc. http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/synergetics.html

SYNERGETICS Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking by R. Buckminster Fuller in collaboration with E. J. Applewhite First Published by Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc. 1975, 1979.

4. Buckminster Fuller R. buckminster fuller. Artifacts of R.buckminster fuller edited by James Ward, 1985. buckminster fuller An autobiographic Monologue by Robert Snyder, 1980. http://www.worldtrans.org/whole/bucky.html

R. Buckminster Fuller "For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years agao the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option of becoming enduringly successful." - Buckminster Fuller, 1980. R. Buckminster Fuller, known by his friends as "Bucky", has undeniably been one of the key innovators in the 20th century. He is known as a philosopher, thinker, visionary, inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician, poet, cosmologist, and more. Buckminster Fuller was probably one of the first futurists and global thinkers. He is the one who coined the term "Spaceship Earth", and his work has inspired and paved the way for many who came after him. This is the Dymaxion Map of the world, developed by Fuller as the first world projection to show the continents on a flat surface without visible distortion. Furthermore, this view shows the earth as being essentially one island in one ocean. Bucky was the person most responsible for making Synergy a common term. Much of his work was about exploring and creating synergy. He found synergy to be a basic principle of all interactive systems. He developed a subject called Synergetics, a "Geometry of Thinking".

5. The Buckminster Fuller Institute This site is devoted to advancing Humanity's Option for Success On Line with the fuller. Archive at Stanford. R. buckminster fuller Papers stamp in celebration of the 50th anniversary of R . http://www.bfi.org/

This site is devoted to advancing Humanity's Option for Success , inspired by the principles articulated by Buckminster Fuller. We hope to empower site visitors to see the big picture and exercise individual initiative. "Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment." - Buckminster Fuller 1980 BFI Connection Highlights Events and Resources Receive a free "crewmember" t-shirt for memberships or donations of $100 or more! Subscribe to our free monthly e-bulletin Trimtab Read recent issues of our newsletter Volume 17, No. 1 is now online! Become a member and receive the Trimtab by mail or email! Store Highlights - NEW! Two Newly Re-released Dymaxion lab videos: The Big Picture and Individual Initiatives Wholeness: On Education, Buckminster Fuller, and Tao , by Alex Gerber Jr. New Lower Prices on Hoberman Spheres!

6. R. Buckminster Fuller On PBS TV program by wNetStation, New York. Clips and quotes. Video cassette for sale. Gallery of expandable thumbnails of major works. http://www.wnet.org/archive/bucky.cgi

You have got to remember always that neither you nor others "know what it's all about." Those who think they "know what it's all about" learn nothing. R. Buckminster Fuller Reload for new quote. Thinking Out Loud Guinea Pig B Inventions Forum ... Back to Master Control This TV program was funded by major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts. Corporate support for "American Masters" provided by American Express. We invite you to enter our essay contest to win a Hoberman sphere. for a "fuller" experience. You may also want to download a QuickTime movie viewer to view movie clips. Back to Master Control

7. Dedicated To Richard Buckminster Fuller (Bucky) Short biography, buckyball diagram, links. http://www.lsi.usp.br/usp/rod/bucky/buckminster_fuller.html

A short page about Buckminster Fuller (Bucky) homepage people buckminster fuller Richard Buckminster Fuller: the planet's friendly genius. A scientist, philosopher. Bucky has gained renown as an inventor and designer (of the Dymaxion house, car and map), the creator of the geodesic dome , the man who coined the term "Spaceship Earth" and organized the World Game, the mathematician who discovered Synergetics, and as a dogged individualist whose genius has been felt throughout the world. He made his mark in areas of architecture, mathematics, philosophy, religion, urban development and design, naturalism, physics, numerology, art and literature, industry and technology. (A display of a 2D slice through the total electron density of C-60 (buckyball). Image created by Cary Sandvig - from SGI gallery / Computer-Aided Chemistry Click for larger version. Cool for use as windows background. Few ideas from Richard Buckminster Fuller's "Critical Path" (pg. 233/234): "All technical evolution has a fundamental behavior pattern. First there is scientific discovery of a generalized principle, which occur as a subjective realizatin by an experimentally probin individual. Next comes objective employment of that principle in a special case invention. Next the invention is reduced to practice. This gives humanity an increased technical advantage over the physical environment. If successful as a tool of society, the invention is used in bigger, swifter, and everyday ways. For instance, it goes progressively from a little steel steamship to ever-bigger fleets of constantly swifter, higher-powered ocean giants."

8. Buckminster Fuller Virtual Institute-HOME buckminster fuller VIRTUAL INSTITUTE. D O . . . . . . . . . M O R E . . . . . . . . . W I buckminster fuller geodesic dome synergetics tensegrity tetrahedron octahedron icosahedron http://www.cruzio.com/~joemoore

BUCKMINSTER FULLER VIRTUAL INSTITUTE D O . . . . . . . . . M O R E . . . . . . . . . W I T H . . . . . . . . . L E S S GRAND STRATEGY SELECTED IDEAS BIBLIOGRAPHY MASTER INDEX ... SEARCH THIS SITE! buckminster.info WHAT'S NEW FAQ powered by FreeFind Maintained by Joe S. Moore joe moore@ hotmail.com Tuesday, November 25, 2003 Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome synergetics tensegrity tetrahedron octahedron icosahedron dymaxion energy food transportation housing computer city Visitors since April, 1998: [an error occurred while processing this directive]

9. Tetworld Peace Through Development Project Based on buckminster fuller's concept for a global computer/internet based strategic game to Make the World Work for Everyone . http://members.tripod.com/~Tetworld/ index.html

10. Online Edition Of A Fuller Explanation Amy C. Edmondson. A fuller Explanation. The Synergetic Geometry of R. buckminster fuller. Next Page. http://www.angelfire.com/mt/marksomers/40.html

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11. The R. Buckminster Fuller FAQ Article on the inventor of geodistic domes . Includes a range of links to resources and industry suppliers . http://www.netaccess.com/~cjf/fuller-faq-4.html

12. PBS - Retired Site The "buckminster fuller Thinking Out Loud" site has been retired from pbs.org. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/bucky.cgi

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13. Notes To R. Buckminster Fuller's Work Notes to R. buckminster fuller s Work. R. buckminster fuller once wrote Don t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/rbfnotes/toc.html

Notes to R. Buckminster Fuller's Work R. Buckminster Fuller once wrote "Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time." Admittedly, I am trying to make Fuller consistent. I have been studying Fuller's work for several years and I am now in the process of making my notes available through these web pages. I hope that by working together we can go through Fuller's work and pull together a consistent presentation of his ideas. Being a physics and mathematics oriented person, I have concentrated on Fuller's science and mathematics related work. Even if your not science oriented I hope you'll find these pages interesting. List of subjects... Here is a Table of Contents style list of the main subjects which I am exploring with respect ot R. Buckminster Fuller's work. Links to others people's work are listed, mostly at the bottom. Gallery of Images Articles by R. Buckminster Fuller "Tensegrity", Portfolio and Art News Annual, No. 4, 1961 Books by R. Buckminster Fuller Fuller's Synergetics Fuller's Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth Fuller's Education Automation Fuller's Grunch of Giants Books about R. Buckminster Fuller

14. Camp Nose Fish 2004 Theme camp living out of a geodesic replica of buckminster fuller's nose and crusing in the Fishmobile. http://www.snapsite.com/guests/hoco/public/html/page69.html

Nose Fish Calendar 3na the Jellyfish The Home Dome The Desert Nose Roller Disco 2002 ... The Fishmobile Camp Nose Fish 2004 Nose Fish Calendar Camp Members Checklist Web Links ... Elephant Nose Fish Welcome to the Camp Nose Fish 2004 home page. Our camp's theme is "less is more." The camp has two main projects: The Desert Nose will return for its fourth year, providing interactive cooling during the hot part of the day The Fishmobile will be redecorated inside with blacklight-sensitive artwork to suit this year's Burning Man theme. This year it will have the stage name "Starfishmobile." ;-) It will be parked in our camp and possibly as an art installation near the esplanade. We are going to apply for the 3:00 Plaza in the hopes we can be near our friends at Bad Idea Theatre, The Whistleworks, and The Tea House, but there is no guarantee that we will be placed there. In 2003 the 3:00 plaza had a delightful and helpful camaraderie among the camps that we'd like to be a part of again in 2004. In supporting each other during the event we discovered our camp's could all do more for BRC. Our camp will have a new windocloth shade area this year suspended from our camp's domes. We'll be able to eat and get out of the heat there! The nose is always packed.

15. Chris Fearnley's List Of Buckminster Fuller Resources On The Internet A collection of links relating to the work of R. buckminster fuller. http://www.cjfearnley.com/buckyrefs.html

Chris Fearnley's List of Buckminster Fuller Resources on the Internet Sites with a General Perspective on The Work of R. Buckminster Fuller Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) Bucky Fuller FAQ Buckminster Fuller Virtual Institute Buckminster Fuller; From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Fuller (R. Buckminster) Papers Sites Relating to Synergetics Synergetics by R. Buckminster Fuller - Full Text On-Line A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller by Amy Edmondson - Full Text On-Line The Synergeticists Synergeticists of the NorthEast Corridor (SNEC) ... An Introduction to the Energetic-Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller Sites Relating to Fuller's Ideas About Human Society GENI: A Working Solution to the Worlds Problems ! Global Energy Network International World Game Institute Critical Path Project Whole Systems ... Design Science University Sites Relating to Geodesic Domes Geodesic Dome Housing Manufacturers - dome housing EcoBusiness Links Directory of Geodesic Dome Homes Geometrica Inc. Professional Dome Plans ... Geodesic Clubhouse Other Inventions of Bucky Fuller Dymaxion Car Fuller's Dymaxion House Mathematics and Tensegrity A Technology for Designing Tensegrity Domes and Spheres Sites Relating to Fullerene Science Fullerenes At Widener Kim Allen's Fullerene Page Stony Brook Buckyball Home Page Geometry Of Fullerenes ... Carbon Cages: LBL Scientists Study Fullerenes Miscellaneous Sites

16. Buckminster Fuller Thinking Out Loud buckminster fuller Thinking Out Loud This excellent presentation of R. buckminster fuller covers the man, his inventions, his philosophies, and how various contemporaries viewed him. There are http://rdre1.inktomi.com/click?u=http://www.thirteen.org/cgi-bin/bucky-bin/bucky

17. The R. Buckminster Fuller FAQ: Synergetics BTW, there is another philosophical essay by Derek A. Kelly ``The Philosophy of R. buckminster fuller in International Philosphical Quarterly 22(1982) 295 http://www.cjfearnley.com/fuller-faq-2.html

Next Previous Contents Synergetics In its broadest sense synergetics is Fuller's hypothesized coordinate system of Universe - both in its physical and metaphysical aspects. Fuller's system of epistemography and mathematical-physics attempts to disclose how Nature actually operates - her ``operational mathematics.'' Fuller claimed that synergetics could be understood by children (though they probably couldn't comprehend his books on the subject). He published this material in his essay ``Omni-directional Halo'' (in No More Secondhand God Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking Synergetics 2: Further Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking , and Cosmography Cosmography is probably the easiest to read for people unfamiliar with Fuller's prose style. An ``interleaved'' version of Synergetics and Synergetics 2 is available on the Web at http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/synergetics.html From my own study of synergetics, I'm convinced that Bucky did in fact identify the coordinate system used by Nature. But I would add the caveat that he didn't get too far along in developing it. Fuller points to what the coordinate system is in broad strokes. He gives many penetrating insights and new discoveries, but the synergetics coordinate system needs a lot more development (and integration) before it will be possible to use it as the operative model in all of Science. Tip to students of synergetics: Build models.

18. American Masters . Buckminster Fuller | PBS discipline. R. buckminster fuller revolutionized many. astronauts. Photos courtesy The Estate of R. buckminster fuller, Sebastopol, CA. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/fuller_b.html

"Making the world's available resources serve one hundred percent of an exploding population can only be accomplished by a boldly accelerated design revolution." T here are few men who can justly claim to have revolutionized their discipline. R. Buckminster Fuller revolutionized many. "Bucky," as he was known to most, was a designer, architect, poet, educator, engineer, philosopher, environmentalist, and, above all, humanitarian. Driven by the belief that humanity's major problems were hunger and homelessness he dedicated his life to solving those problems through inexpensive and efficient design. Black Mountain College . There, with the support of an amazing group of professors and students, he began work on the project that was to make him famous and revolutionize the field of engineering. Using lightweight plastics in the simple form of a tetrahedron (a triangular pyramid) he created a small dome. As his work continued it became clear that he had made the first building that could sustain its own weight with no practical limits. The U.S. government recognized the importance of the discovery and employed him to make small domes for the army. Within a few years there were thousands of these domes around the world. Having finally received recognition for his endeavors, Buckminster Fuller spent the final fifteen years of his life traveling around the world lecturing on ways to better use the world's resources. A favorite of the radical youth of the late 60's and 70's, Fuller worked to expand social activism to an international scope. Among his most famous books were NO MORE SECONDHAND GOD(1963) OPERATING MANUAL FOR THE SPACESHIP EARTH (1969), and EARTH, INC. (1973) in which he writes "In reality, the Sun, the Earth, and the Moon are nothing else than a most fantastically well-designed and space-programmed team of vehicles. All of us are, always have been, and so long as we exist, always will benothing else butastronauts."

19. R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes - The Quotations Page Quotations by Author. R. buckminster fuller (1895 1983) US architect engineer more author details. R. buckminster fuller. God is a verb. http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/R._Buckminster_Fuller/

Home / News Quotes of the Day Motivational Author Index ... Contact Us Also visit: The Literature Page Quotations by Author R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983) [more author details] Showing quotations 1 to 6 of 6 total Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. R. Buckminster Fuller God is a verb. R. Buckminster Fuller Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. R. Buckminster Fuller - More quotations on: Technology Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. R. Buckminster Fuller When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. R. Buckminster Fuller - More quotations on: Beauty Either war is obsolete or men are.

20. Richard Buckminster Fuller Bucky - Architect, Philosopher And Poet Exploring the life and works of R. buckminster fuller (Bucky), the architect, philosopher and poet who conceived the geodesic dome. http://architecture.about.com/library/bl-fuller.htm

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