The Buckminster Fuller Institute has announced six finalists for the 2016 Fuller Challenge, a competition now in its ninth cycle. The Fuller Challenge called for submissions from all fields that address humanity?s most pressing problems, and will award $100,000 to one submission that ?presents integrated strategies deeply informed by an understanding of a whole system context.?

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The Buckminster Fuller Institute has announced six finalists for the 2016 Fuller Challenge, a competition now in its ninth cycle. The Fuller Challenge called for submissions from all fields that address humanity?s most pressing problems, and will award $100,000 to one submission that ?presents integrated strategies deeply informed by an understanding of a whole system context.?The 2016 Fuller Challenge finalists are:Cooperación Comunitaria:
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. [The challenge is] to make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time, with spontaneous cooperation and without ecological damage or disadvantage of anyone  ? R. Buckminster Fuller. Cooperación Comunitaria is implementing a comprehensive model to radically improve the living conditions of marginalized populations in Mexico by working with communities to rebuild their homes?combining sound geological and engineering risk analysis with local indigenous wisdom....