The Buckminster Fuller Institute

This site is devoted to advancing Humanity's Option for Success, inspired by the principles articulated by Buckminster Fuller. We hope to empower site visitors to see the big picture and exercise individual initiative. Everyone on board our Spaceship Earth can live abundantly and successfully on an ecologically sustainable basis. Humanity has the option to make it. We must choose it before it expires. More on Humanity's Option.

"Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment."
Buckminster Fuller 1980

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The BFI’s newsletter. Volume 16, No. 1 is now online!

NEW! Organic Cotton Spaceship Earth "Crewmember" T-shirts

Sale Special!
20% off Polydron Geometric Modeling Kits!

BFI Members receive an additional 10% off.

Books Online

Education Automation,
Freeing the Scholar to Return to His Studies by Buckminster Fuller

Everything I Know
The full transcripts to Fuller’s 42 hour lecture.

A Fuller Explanation by Amy Edmondson

Grunch of Giants by Buckminster Fuller

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by Buckminster Fuller

Synergetics,
Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking and Synergetics 2
Now fully integrated into one volume online.

World Design Science Decade Documents:
Inventory of World Resources, Human Trends and Needs now available on line by pdf

BFI's New Initiatives by BFI President, Josh Arnow

New! Slide Show of the Design Science Revolution today

Spring EARTHscope Update

Visit AAAS Atlas powered by the EARTHscope

BFI Announces New Emergency Shelter Project !

On Design by Bill Miller

Offshore Wind: The Future Has Arrived. Are We Ready? by Greg Watson

In Fuller's Words

Bucky On War

About Universe and Systems by Buckminster Fuller

Self Disciplines of Buckminster Fuller

Responsibilities of the Design Scientist
by Buckminster Fuller

On Line with the Fuller
Archive at Stanford

R. Buckminster Fuller Papers

Towards a Cultural History of Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Car

The One-Man Performance of
"R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISTORY (and Mystery) of THE UNIVERSE". Final Weeks! Extended by Popular demand! Special price of $18 for BFI members.

BFI Video and Conversation Night
Monday, June 18, 7 - 9 pm
Sebastopol Situation Room, 400
Morris Ave, Suite E, Sebastopol, CA (map).

Featuring clips of Bucky from his 42-hours of "Everything I Know" and the Integrity Day events which were filmed right before his passing. Opportunities for conversation between clips and after. Ideas and spontaneous creativity can be captured on The Situation Room’s large wall-sized white boards. Suggested donation $5-$20

BFI members free. No one turned away for lack of funds. For more info 707-824 2242.

"Practical Guide to Tensegrity Design" Online
Bob Burkhardt has made his nearly 200-page "Guide to Tensegrity" available for free on the web. A PDF version is also available for download.

PlaNetwork Presents: Networking a Sustainable Future
Focusing on how information technologies and the Internet can play a key role in accelerating progressive change.
June 6-8, 2003, Golden Gate Club, in the Presidio, San Francisco

"When I am working on a problem
I never think about beauty.
I only think about how to solve the problem.
But when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong."

-R. Buckminster Fuller

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