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The Buckminster Fuller Challenge

Catalyzing the vanguard of a design science revolution
Greetings Design Revolutionaries!
Bucky had it right. “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
That’s why we’re awarding a $100,000 prize each year for comprehensive solutions that radically advance human well-being and ecosystem health. The [...]

Sol Focus: All That Silicon Valley Alternative Energy Investment Bears Some Fruit

By: Carl Alviani
From www.core77.com
Published June 26, 2008

We’ve been hearing about the boom in alternative energy research in Silicon Valley for a while now, but not so much in terms of actual marketable products. That may be changing, though, if Mountain View based Sol Focus is any indication.
Looking at the history of solar power, one of [...]

Un mar de oportunidades renovables

Por: Mariana Muñiz Lara
De: www.vocero.com
Publicado: 30 de junio de 2008
Las alternativas de energía renovable más conocidas son la solar y la eólica, pero, además del sol y el viento, hay otro recurso rodeando a Puerto Rico que podría proveer electricidad: el agua, tanto a través de la fuerza de las olas o el cambio de [...]

The Photonic Beetle: Nature Builds Diamond-like Crystals for Future Optical Computers

From: www.biomimicrynews.com
Published May 21, 2006
Researchers have been unable to build an ideal “photonic crystal” to manipulate visible light, impeding the dream of ultrafast optical computers. But now, University of Utah chemists have discovered that nature already has designed photonic crystals with the ideal, diamond-like structure: They are found in the shimmering, iridescent green scales of [...]

Largest City Solar Initiative gets greenlight in San Francisco

by Ali Kriscenski
From: www.inhabitat.com
Published: June 16, 2008

San Francisco has made solar energy a top priority with the passage of the Solar Energy Initiative Program - the largest solar energy subsidy program of any city in the United States. An annual budget of $3 million dollars will help create incentives for individuals and businesses to install [...]

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