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

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>. 

THE 2010 BUCKMINSTER FULLER CHALLENGE SEMI-FINALISTS ANNOUNCED

FEBRUARY 17, 2010 NEW YORK CITY — The Buckminster Fuller Institute is proud to announce that thirty outstanding entries to the Buckminster Fuller Challenge have been advanced to the final stage of review.

The distinguished jury will select a winner who will be presented with the OmniOculi sculpture and the $100,0 00 prize money to honor and encourage further development of their work at a public ceremony in Washington DC, on June 5, 2010.

The thirty proposals currently under consideration have undergone a rigorous review for adherence to the entry criteria including an interview with the individual or team behind the strategy. They were advanced from a pool of 215 entries submitted. The titles and project leads of these entries are listed below. The jury will spend the next two months reviewing the entries and determining finalists.

“ We are very proud and excited about the 30 semi-finalists. They include an amazing array of comprehensive strategies that address some of our most pressing problems - from reversing desertification to prototyping strategies for disaster response, re-envisioning our cities as carbon sinks, to dealing with the trash patch the size of Texas floating in the middle of the Pacific gyre." reports Program Manager, JenJoy Roybal.

“Entries have been submitted by highly accomplished individuals and/or teams representing all parts of the world. Every one of them will inspire interest and hopefully, support. The jury is in for a very tough deliberation process.” expressed Executive Director, Elizabeth Thompson.

Congratulations to all of the Semi-Finalists and everyone who entered this year’s Buckminster Fuller Challenge. Those who have opted to have their work published will be featured in the Idea Index in March.

2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Semi-Finalists:
Watergy Greenhouse, submitted by Martin Buchholz
Aclima: A system for creating and harnessing collective eco-intelligence for cleaner air and reduced climate change emissions, submitted by Greg Niemeyer & Team
Barefoot Women Solar Engineers of Africa, Asia and Latin America, submitted by Bunker Roy & Team
GrowTown: It's for Everyone - It's Sustainable - It Starts Now, submitted by Kenneth Weikal & Team
Operation Hope - Permanent Water and Food Security for AfricaÕs Impoverished Millions, submitted by Allan Savory on behalf of Africa Centre for Holistic Management Trustees and staff
Jaaga, submitted by Freeman Murray & Team
Tibet is the High Ground - 3rd Variation, submitted by Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison
The Acceleration Of Innovation, submitted by Jeff Rose, Full Belly Project
Seed-Scale: A Universal Process for Community Change, submitted by Daniel Taylor, Future Generations
Sheltering U.S. Persons Unsheltered: Creating Legally Conforming, Economically Sustainable Emergency and Transitional Shelter, submitted by Bruce LeBel, World Shelters
LIFT, submitted by Prithula Prosun
Sustainable Disaster Response, submitted by Scott Gibson & Team
Synchronicity 2: Public Water Purification Island, submitted by Jakub Szczesny
ColaLife, submitted by Simon Berry
Plastic Island, submitted by Mr. F.K.R. Eilander & Team
Fighting SAM (Severe Acute Malnutrition) in India, submitted by Compatible Technology International
GoodBank - a high transparency design for ethical banking, submitted by Bruce Cahan, President Urban Logic
Resources, submitted by Elizabeth Damon
CITY SINK, submitted by Cindy Hoffman Brandt
MicroEnergy Credits, submitted by April Allderdice
Living Building ChallengeJason F. McLennan
Eco-Boulevards, submitted by Martin Felson
The Green Initiative: Self-Sufficiency for NGOs through Clean Energy, submitted by Dr. Basil Stamos & Team
New York City (Steady) State (book, research, web project) , submitted by Terreform
Light For All, submitted by Sameer Hajee
The Green Island Project, submitted by Skip Staats, EcoSoul
The S.A.T. Project, 3D transportation, submitted by Serrano + Pecarari Architects
A Call to Farm: FarmShare, submitted by BK Farmyards
Samasource: Microwork for the Developing World, submitted by Leila C. Janah
STRUCTURES FOR WAVE ENERGY ABSORPTION AND COLONIZATION OF MANGROVES, submitted by Mourad Zeghal

To learn more about each project visit the Semi-Finalists summary page or contact: JenJoy Roybal, Tel: 718.290.9283. To view entries to the 2008 and 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, visit BFI’s Idea Index - a web-based publishing system created to enhance the oppo rtunity for proposals to receive support and get implemented.

LINKS
-To Enter: http://challenge.bfi.org
-Jury: 2008-2009 Jury
-2008 and 2009 Entries, Idea IndexIdea Index.
- To Watch the Buckminster Fuller Challenge video visit: http://challenge.bfi.org/movie
- To view the 2008 winner visit: http://challenge.bfi.org/winner_2008
- To view the 2009 winner visit: http://challenge.bfi.org/winner_2009
- Press Page


The Buckminster Fuller Institute
181 N11th St, Suite 402
Brooklyn, 11211