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R. Buckminster Fuller

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  • We prefer our prophets to be noble, like Moses with his flowing beard, but the prophet of design called R. Buckminster Fuller (or just plain "Bucky") was a bit of a kook.

    chicagotribune.com - 2009

  • And this gets me to a hugely important "tool set" Repower America must use: the transformational management principles of the real Reinventing movement (otherwise known as the social systemic sciences, as developed by W. Edwards Deming, Russell Ackoff, Peter Drucker, and R. Buckminster Fuller) And, once again, I know that Al Gore has some familiarity with at least a portion of this body of knowledge.

    Steven G. Brant: Reinventing Repower America: Our Only Hope for Winning the Climate Change Battle in America 2010

  • And this gets me to a hugely important "tool set" Repower America must use: the transformational management principles of the real Reinventing movement (otherwise known as the social systemic sciences, as developed by W. Edwards Deming, Russell Ackoff, Peter Drucker, and R. Buckminster Fuller) And, once again, I know that Al Gore has some familiarity with at least a portion of this body of knowledge.

    Steven G. Brant: Reinventing Repower America: Our Only Hope for Winning the Climate Change Battle in America 2010

  • The innovative dome design comes from an American original named R. Buckminster Fuller.

    Lee Schneider: Domes for the Homeless 2009

  • The innovative dome design comes from an American original named R. Buckminster Fuller.

    Lee Schneider: Domes for the Homeless 2009

  • Philosopher and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller designed buildings and cars that looked like spaceships -- but many of his creations never got off the ground.

    Buckminster Fuller's Otherworldly Designs 2009

  • The innovative dome design comes from an American original named R. Buckminster Fuller.

    Lee Schneider: Domes for the Homeless 2009

  • Unknown to most of the world Carbondale, Il was the home of famed visionary R. Buckminster Fuller and his wife Anne from 1960 to 1972.

    Cameron Sinclair: Bucky Done Gone: The dome home in decay. 2009

  • R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), an American inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician, poet, and cosmologist who is best known for his invention of the geodesic dome — a structure constructed of lightweight bars forming a grid of polygons.

    Fuller, R. Buckminster 2008

  • -- R. Buckminster Fuller [... and a total nonsequitir as far as I can tell. - kl] "One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions ... like a state of sheer terror."

    The Fortune Cookie File from Karl Lehenbauer Part 7 1989

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