"For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.    Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option of becoming enduringly successful."    - Buckminster Fuller, 1980.

 R. Buckminster Fuller, known by his friends as "Bucky", has undeniably been one of the key innovators in the 20th century. He is known as a philosopher, thinker, visionary, inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician, poet, cosmologist, and more.

He devoted his life to improving humanity's condition by addressing issues that large organizations, governments, or private enterprises inherently could not do.  He therefore focused on how these groups could come together in a synergy.   As a result of our own studies regarding his work, we have come to believe that the fundamental barrier to organizations acting in synergy is that they are structured legally from competing law forums.  Governments serve their citizens and try to get a trade surplus, private enterprises serve their share/interest holders, large organizations such as Foundations and charities try to function across multi-jurisdictional boundaries; without a “space – jurisdiction – contract” structured specifically for these associations to meet on common cooperative and mutually beneficial grounds, there is no way for them to cooperate without being in breach of their fiduciary responsibility to their country, court, shareholders, beneficiaries, etc….

Bucky taught us the principles of “Synergy” that our Ministry applies to all we do, his principles are grounded in the natural laws of creation as they are, in the most efficiently (non-resistant) designed circuitries through which energy flows. He found synergy to be a basic principle of all interactive systems, and developed a subject called Synergetics, a "Geometry of Thinking".

Fuller is also the inventor of the Geodesic dome, and was a pioneer in utilizing basic geometical shapes in design.

A key goal for Buckminster Fuller was the development of what he called "Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science", which is the attempt to anticipate and solve humanity's major problems by providing "more and more life support for everybody, with less and less resources."

He died on July 1, 1983, at the age of 87, a guru of the design, architecture, and 'alternative' communities such as Drop City, the experimental artists community to whom he awarded the 1966 "Dymaxion Award" for "poetically economic" domed living structures. His wife was comatose and dying of cancer and while visiting her in the hospital he exclaimed at one point: "She is squeezing my hand!" He then stood up, suffered a heart attack and died an hour later. His wife died 36 hours later. He is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Buckminster Fuller was to us, a great futurists and global thinkers. He was the second president of Mensa.  He is the one who coined the term "Spaceship Earth", and his work has inspired and paved the way for many who came after him.

Fuller routinely demonstrated his ideas in what he called "artifacts", tangible prototypes or models of designs and principles.

The Buckminster Fuller Institute located in Santa Barbara is a repository and resource concerning his work. It can be contacted at: bfi@aol.com

These are a couple of sites with more Fuller information:

• Buckminster Fuller FAQ
• Bucky pictures
• Synergetics

Bucky Collection