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Love and Gravity

Gary Zukav | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Authors, Philosophy, Fear, The Balanced Life, Buckminster Fuller, Gary Zukav, Love, Spirituality, Compassion, Gps-Soul, Healthy Living News

Love grounds you. It orients you. Love brings your awareness to others and yourself. Love opens your mind and heart to others and yourself.

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Redesigning Housing For The Homeless

Joel John Roberts | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Poverty, Homelessness, Third World America, Geodesic-Domes, Buckminster Fuller, Frank Lloyd Wright, Loft Living, Affordable Housing, Impact News

We need to start thinking "outside of the home" when it comes to design. Changing the way we house homeless Americans could end homelessness.

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Freedom Plaza's Geodesic Dome Is Still Standing

HuffingtonPost.com | Arin Greenwood | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Geodesic Domes, Foreclosures, Occupy Washington DC, Video, District of Columbia, Buckminster Fuller, Occupy Wall Street, Architecture, Stop the Machine, Kevin Zeese, Occupy Dc, Affordable Housing, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Occupy DC had its barn, the short-lived wooden structure that was put up and torn down on Sunday in McPherson Square. Occupy Washington,...

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7 Habits for Effective Teaching

Willow Dea | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Buckminster Fuller, Leadership, Effective Teaching, Leadership Tips, Leadership Advice, Effective-Leadership, Education News

We know that power lies in depth, and that from the depths of our presence, we can affect each other and thus our world. An integral framework includes five distinct elements that organize a more balanced and comprehensive approach to leadership.

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The Revolution...Sorry, Transformation Starts Now!

Steven G. Brant | Posted 05.25.2011

I predict the naked power grab by the Republican party in Wisconsin will go down in history as the second "shot heard 'round the world" which began the second American Revolution. Except it won't be a revolution. It will be a transformation.

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The Irrationality of Love and Art

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: San Francisco Arts Commission, Christopher Guest, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Rescue Dog, M.H. DeYoung Memorial Museum, Ruth Asawa, Union Square, Leslie Bricusse, Mike Daisey, Miles Egstad, Bethany Center, Best in Show, Ghirardelli Square, Ruth?S Table, Golden Gate Park, Bob Toy, Princess Abby, Don R. Lewis, Garden of Remembrance, Jacobellis v. Ohio, Black Mountain College, Ruth Asawa: Roots of an Artist, Anthony Newley, Jean-Michele Gregory, Josef Albers, San Francisco State University, Carrie Prejean, Dawn Goehring, John T. Beck, Cyril Ritchard, The Roar of the Greasepaint ? the Smell of the Crowd, Chinese Crested, Worst in Show, World?S Ugliest Dog Contest, Bayside Plaza, California Arts Council, Sonoma-Marin Fair, Walt Disney Studios, Academy of Art University, Buckminster Fuller, 13th San Francisco Independent Film Festival, Potter Stewart, Mockumentary, S&M, Dane Andrew, National Endowment for the Arts, Rohwher, Film, Arts News

In 1964, when the United States Supreme Court ruled on Jacobellis v. Ohio, Associate Justice Potter Stewart gained fame for his description of obscen...

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The Need to Build a New Model

Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Future, Consciousness, World, Systems Thinking, g20, Plato, Technological Age, Buckminster Fuller, Roman Empire, Renaissance, Industrial Age, Anthony Giddens, Religion News

Humanity is now at a critical crossroads. Another energetic spurt is required for us not to enter a post-industrial period of decline -- much like what occurred after the fall of the Roman Empire.

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Ant Farm And The Influences Of Guerilla Architecture (PHOTOS)

Spread ArtCulture | Posted 04.18.2012

"Vincent Callebaut Lilypad, A Floating Ecopolis for Climate Refugees, 2008 Digital rendering, dimensions variable © Vincent Callebaut Architectures...

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Strategic Analytic Model for Creating a Prosperous World at Peace

Robert David Steele | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Holistic, Dennis Meadows, Catastrophe, Tactics, Economy, Technical, Agriculture, Proliferation, Whole Systems, Immigration, Other Atrocities, Diplomacy, Policy, Infectious Disease, Threat, Intelligence, Decision Support, Transnational Crime, Open Everything, Analysis, Operations, Medard Gabel, Society, Security, Justice, Family, Energy, Earth, Strategy, Jorgen Randers, Poverty, Civil War, Participatory Medicine, Terrorism, Limits to Growth, Donella Meadows, Inter-State Conflict, Acts of God, Education, Earth Dashboard, Participatory Budgeting, Environmental Degradation, Water, Health, Buckminster Fuller, Genocide, Russell Ackoff, Whole Earth, Earthgame, Decision-Support, Sanity, Stephen Colbert, Politics News

Whole Earth Whole Systems The Earth is a self-contained system in which all elements interact in ways that we humans simply do not understand--witnes...

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Waiting For "Superman" and How Design Thinking Can Make Us the Superheroes We've Been Waiting for

Steven G. Brant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lesley Chilcott, Design Thinking, Education, Waiting for Superman, Myron Tribus, Buckminster Fuller, Education Reform, Russell Ackoff, Franklin Schargel, Daniel Greenberg, Education News

While the film presents a compelling story of a system in crisis -- there is something the film doesn't mention at all: that Design Thinking can turn us all into the education reform Supermen and Superwomen we have been waiting for.

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CultureZohn: Ab Ex NY: A Contemporary Re-Telling of the Abstract Expressionist Tale Opens at MoMA

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hans Hofman, Red, Joseph Campbell, John Cage, Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract Expressionism, Mark Rothko, Lee Krasner, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollack, Aaron Siskind, Willem De Kooning, Louise Nevelson, Rober Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Museum of Modern Art, Buckminster Fuller, Arts News

Once upon a time, a group of American artists fought to distinguish themselves from their European elders and peers. They took as their quest nothing less than re-inventing art.

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Reinventing Repower America: Our Only Hope for Winning the Climate Change Battle in America

Steven G. Brant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fear, Global Prosperity, Strategy, Repower America, Hope, Al Gore Climate Change, Peter Drucker, William McDonough, W. Edwards Deming, Climate Change Legislation, Politics of Fear, Reinventing the Government, Amory Lovins, Buckminster Fuller, Climate Change, Al Gore, Southern Strategy, Russell-Ackoff, Green News

If Repower America transforms into a future-based movement, we will be tapping into that core American belief in doing whatever it takes for however long it takes to build a more hopeful future for ourselves and our children.

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Planetary Wellness: A New Consciousness

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Planetary Wellness, Gulf Oil Spill, Spaceship Earth, Buckminster Fuller, Green News

What kind of a solution is it to survive on a toxic planet? We need to adopt a new kind of consciousness in which the wellness of Earth is true wellness, not simply the absence of potentially fatal conditions.

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Creating Community in LA: Emergency Preparedness

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google Groups, Beachwood Canyon, George Carlin, Twitter, LA DWP, Buckminster Fuller, LA Fire Department, Nichols Canyon, Frederic Nietzsche, Infacta Groupmail, John Donne, Facebook, Carl Sigman, Emergency Preparedness, Lapd, Laurel Canyon, La Real Estate, Los Angeles News

No man is an island. Surely you want to be linked up with neighbors in case of emergencies like earthquakes and fires. That way, when the crisis is over, you can return to your hermetic ways in one piece.

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Bucky Balls: Who'd Have Thought 2010's Hottest Toy Is About Creating Geometric Shapes?

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toys, Buckminster Fuller, Buckyballs, Style News

The plaything of the rich turns out to be the current obsession of... millions. This thing is everywhere. Adults love it even more than kids. I mean, of course, Bucky Balls.

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Could Your Worst Enemy Be Your Best Teacher?

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Bucky Fuller, Awareness, Self-Awareness, Buckminster Fuller, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News

One of the major lessons I have learned in my own personal and spiritual development has been that other people can reflect to me aspects of myself that I need to address.

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Japan's PIKADON Project & Hiroshima Yes! Campaign in New York City

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rotary International, Nuclear Proliferation, Hpgrp Gallery, United Nations, Nuclear Explosion, Seitaro Kuroda, Nobuyoshi Araki, Hiroshima, Yumi Tanaka, Nagasaki, Webster Hall, Manhattan, Global Citizen, Jim Luce, Non-Proliferation Treaty, Mayors for Peace, Count Down to Peace, Tadatoshi Akiba, Tokyo, Japanese Art, Atomic Energy, White Light/ Black Rain, East Village, Live Painting, Alliance for Peacebuilding, September 11, New York Peace Film Festival, Hiroshima?Nagasaki Protocol, Hiroshima Yes! Campaign, Japan, New York City, Thought Leader, Tadao Ando, Keiko Tsuyama, Atomic Bomb, Steven Okazaki, Buckminster Fuller, PIKADON Project, World Peace Gala Chicago, Taku Nishimae, Toshinori Kondo, Nuclear Weapons, World Trade Center, Global Citizenship Award, World War II, Orphans International Worldwide, New York News

Manhattan said "Yes!" to a non-nuclear world last week as famed Japanese artist Seitaro Kuroda (video) and the Hiroshima Yes! Campaign kicked off "The...

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Domes for the Homeless

Lee Schneider | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Homelessness, Afghanistan, Buckminster Fuller, Volunteers, United Way, Homeless, Bruce LeBel, World Shelters, Navy, Ventura County, Technology News

Can a new village of homes be built in a day? The answer is yes if you have volunteers, vision, and an innovative design for geodesic homes.

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Can We Afford NOT To Be Of Service?

Anne Naylor | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Wisdom, Rabindranath Tagore, Service, William Shakespeare, Buckminster Fuller, Self-Awareness, The Giving Life, Serving, Dr Paul Kaye, Mother Theresa, Dr John-Roger, Giving, Healthy Living News

We are designed for giving. When we do so, our lives come into a certain order, even and especially when things seem so chaotic and uncertain.

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The Brilliance (and Stupidity) of The Age of Stupid

Steven G. Brant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Innovation, Collaboration, The Age of Stupid, Innovation, Kofi Annan, Gillian Anderson, Stephen Covey, W. Edwards Deming, Peace, Solar Energy, Moby, Buckminster Fuller, Transformation, Solar Energy Projects, Global Financial Crisis, Workplace Collaboration, Global Warming, Sustainability, Entertainment News

The film is essentially the same rant against stupid behavior we've heard for years, dressed up in an elaborate, well-intended package.

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Culture Zohn: Spaceship Earth: It's Not Too Late for Course Correction

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Moma, Kieran Timberlake, Whitney, John Lautner, Buckminster Fuller, Hammer, Al Gore, Environment, Prefab, Style News

How are we going to live in the rest of the 21st century and beyond? It's a big question, one that is becoming ever more urgent as resources diminish with few answers from our largely dysfunctional government.

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