The Buckminster Fuller Challenge
Each year a distinguished jury will award a $100,000 prize to support the development and implementation of a strategy that has significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems.Check out a couple of these ideas:
The Barefoot College
http://challenge.bfi.org/application_summary/237
Cycle for Health
http://challenge.bfi.org/application_summary/418
I love it! Barefoot and cycling, the oldest and one of the most basic forms of human transport, are two of the most viable solutions we have. It's ironic that our wasteful western civilization is so slow to adopt practices that could solve two of our worst problems - pollution and obesity. But we're in too much of a hurry to take the time. Alas.
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