[P2P-F] Fw: 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Finalists Announced

Sat May 5 11:25:42 CEST 2012

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Subject: 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Finalists Announced

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May 4, 2012 NEW YORK CITY —The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) is proud to announce the finalists for the 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, each providing a workable solution and whole systems approach to the world's most significant challenges.

The Buckminster Fuller Challenge, named "Socially-Responsible Design's Highest Award" by Metropolis Magazine, is the annual global competition recognizing bold, visionary, tangible initiatives that take a comprehensive, anticipatory, design science approach to radically advance human well being and the health of our planet's ecosystems. Among other criteria, entrants are judged on the feasibility of their initiative, whether it is able to withstand rigorous empirical testing, its ability to not only sustain, but enhance the environment, and its ability to scale and adapt to a broad range of conditions.

2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Finalists Are: 
	* Eco-Fuel Africa Limited, a budding enterprise led by a dynamic Ugandan entrepreneur, Sanga Moses, leverages simple technologies to address multiple critical social and environmental problems, boosting rural incomes, combating deforestation, sequestering CO2, reducing indoor air pollution, enhancing the fertility of depleted farming soils, and radically improving overall health and wellbeing of the community.

	* Future of Fish, applies rigorous design thinking with a comprehensive systems view to the massive crisis of over-harvesting that threatens the world's wild marine fisheries with collapse, and addresses complex systems challenges that have broad applicability. 

	* The Living Building Challenge, launched by a pioneer in green architecture, is a philosophy, advocacy tool, and performance standard - setting the highest standard of environmental in buildings, reframing how buildings and infrastructure function within ecosystems.

	* The Water Retention Landscape of Tamera, combines a profound spiritual connection to the land with scientific rigor and a high degree of creativity and innovation to shape a landscape an maximize the retention of rainwater and circulate it in such a way that biodiversity, food production, and human wellbeing are all harmoniously enhanced.______________________________________________________________________________________________ 

The finalists represent a pool of top entries that hail from architecture, non-profit organizations, and startups. They are social entrepreneurs, architects, and seasoned comprehensive designers. The projects have undergone a rigorous review for adherence to the entry criteria and interviews with the individual or team behind the strategy. They were advanced from a pool of 122 entries from around the world that were then narrowed down to 18 semi-finalists. A panel of 9 distinguished jurors— all internationally recognized leaders in design and sustainability, met for intense and lively deliberations to select the finalists.

"It is phenomenally important what BFI is doing, and it was really, absolutely fascinating to learn about each of these projects and it is incredibly encouraging to see this comprehensive design science thinking showing up in the applications, and for BFI to shine a light on them!"

Kenny Ausubel, 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Juror
The Challenge winner will be announced during a day event with Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design on Wednesday, June 6 in New York City. The event will feature presentations by the finalists, a panel discussion, a tour of 41 Cooper Square, and an award ceremony with keynote speaker John Todd. Special guests Kenny Ausubel, Co-CEO & Founder of Bioneers, Helen and Newton Harrison of The Harrison Studio, leading pioneers of the eco-art movement, and Janice Perlman, Founder and President of The Mega-Cities Project, will participate in a panel discussion.

For more information on the 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award Ceremony events, email challenge at bfi.org or simply RSVP.
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About The Buckminster Fuller Institute
Founded in 1983 and headquartered in New York, The Buckminster Fuller Institute is dedicated to accelerating the development and deployment of solutions which radically advance human well being and the health of our planet's ecosystems. BFI aims to deeply influence the ascendance of a new generation of design-science pioneers who are leading the creation of an abundant and restorative world economy that benefits all humanity. BFI's programs combine unique insight into global trends and local needs with a comprehensive approach to design. BFI encourages participants to conceive and apply transformative strategies based on a crucial synthesis of whole systems thinking, Nature's fundamental principles, and an ethically driven worldview. By facilitating convergence across the disciplines of art, science, design and technology, BFI's work extends the profoundly relevant legacy of R. Buckminster Fuller. For further information visit bfi.org.

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Related Links
- About the Challenge: http://challenge.bfi.org/About
- 2012 semi-finalists page: http://challenge.bfi.org/2011Semi_Finalists"
- 2012 Challenge Jury: http://challenge.bfi.org/process/jurors
- Previous Entries: http://challenge.bfi.org/ideaindex 
- Previous Winners:http://challenge.bfi.org/Winners
- Press: http://challenge.bfi.org/Press
- Connect on Facebook
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