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Future Generations Announced as a Semi-Finalist for the Buckminster Fuller Award

Posted on Fri, 02/19/2010 – 18:07

Future Generations is one of 30 semi-finalists out of 215 applicants for the 2010 Buckminster Fuller Award. Read the article from the Buckminster Fuller Institute featured below. For a direct link to the Buckminster Fuller Challenge website click <here>. 

 

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Seed-Scale: An Introduction (one page)

Publisher: 
Future Generations
Date: 
November, 2009

A one page summary of the Seed-Scale Process of Community Change, a process used by Future Generations to guide its field work and global training programs.

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Mobilizing Human Energy

Authors: 
Calder, Jason
Publisher: 
The Worldwatch Institute
Date: 
December, 2008

Niger was all but given a death sentence in the 1970s when drought-propelled desertification, rapid population growth, and unsustainable farming practices threatened ecological collapse and mass human suffering. Women on average each gave birth to more than seven children, and the population was expected to double in the next two decades. Families who had worked their land for generations could see the tell-tale signs: it was taking longer and longer to get to trees and fresh water, and the Sahara desert was getting closer and closer.

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Mobilization of Human Resources for Sustainable Development: The Future Generations Arunachal Initiative

Authors: 
Kanno, Tage
Publisher: 
Development North East
Date: 
March, 2009

Development, in today's context, should be sustainable, something to which the common man can relate, and lead to a future which they can own.  Arunachal Pradesh in the North East of India has a relative advantage as a late starter in the development arena.  It can still learn from the mistakes of other regions which have fallen prey to to a skewed perception of development.  Under this context, how can sustainable development be brought about in the face of fast depleting natural resources and tendency of the community to depend on somebody high up or powerful to initiate th

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Just and Lasting Change

Authors: 
Taylor, Daniel
Authors: 
Taylor, Carl E.
Publisher: 
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Date: 
January, 2002
ISBN: 
0-8018-6825-4

Just and Lasting Change presents how to transform communities rapidly
and in locally appropriate ways. Daniel Taylor-Ide and Carl Taylor have
been present at key events and worked with key thinkers in dealing with
the large forces of inequity, environmental change, and globalization.
The approach they have synthesized builds on what has worked over the
last century--and can now be implemented rapidly and cost-effectively
in many parts of the world. It relies on a three-way partnership of

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The Four Principles of SEED-SCALE

Necessary Conditions for Change

Future Generations researchers and colleagues have been monitoring community-based development and conservation programs worldwide to examine why some programs have succeeded and others have failed. This research concludes that in all cases of success, in which the program has been both sustainable and has gone to scale, four determinents can be found. In all these cases, successful community change resulted from a set of necessary conditions, which the SEED-SCALE process has described as four key principles.

 

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Redefining Community Futures: A Functioning System for Sustainability and Equity

Authors: 
Taylor, Daniel
Date: 
January, 2002

 

The Future Generations model for community change

  • what it is
  • how it works
  • why it works

 

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Community Based Sustainable Human Development

Authors: 
Taylor, Daniel
Authors: 
Taylor, Carl E.
Publisher: 
UNICEF Primary Environmental Care (PEC) Discussion Papers
Date: 
February, 1995

 

A Proposal for Going to Scale with Self-Reliant Social Development

“Sustainable human development is development that not only generates economic growth but distributes its benefits equitably; that regenerates the environment rather than destroying it; that empowers people rather than marginalizing them. It gives priority to the poor, enlarging their choices and opportunities, and provides for their participation in decisions affecting them. It is development that is pro-poor, pro-nature, pro-jobs, pro-democracy, pro-women and pro-children.”

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Going to Scale

Definition

Going to scale refers to a process to extend community level change through:

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Sustainable Change: The Seed process and community level action

The Annual Cycle of Seven Steps

In many areas of life, we use a cycle of steps. To grow crops, there are the seasons of plowing, fertilizing, planting and weeding, before the harvest. To graduate from school, there is a routine of classes. Our studies of worldwide development experiences indicate a frequent failure: communities and governments often just keep starting over, without ever completing a full cycle of action.

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