CMPBS’s entry “Beyond the Petroleum Era: A Proto-Cooperative Means for Remineralizing Coastal Regions” along with 29 other finalists was listed on the Idea Index on the Buckminster Fuller Challenge website. The winner of this year’s BFC will be announced on May 4th. To view the Center’s entry and the other finalists please visit the Idea Index.

CMPBS’s entry “Beyond the Petroleum Era: A Proto-Cooperative Means for Re-Mineralizing Coastal Regions” is a tool for developing crowdsourced solutions in a converged digital/physical space and proposes building systems for hurricane ravaged Galveston, Texas.

This is the second year that CMPBS has competed in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge. Last year’s entry, BioMosaics, was selected as one of seventeen semi-finalists and can be viewed online on the 2008 Idea Index website.

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This May, Natural Home Magazine celebrated their 10th anniversary by interviewing six visionaries about the future of green building. Writer Eric Corey Freed posed “5 Questions about our Future” to participants Gil Friend, Sarah Susanka, Michelle Kaufmann, David Orr, Sergio Palleroni, and CMPBS’ own Pliny Fisk.

The ‘5 Questions’ covered topics ranging from housing to obstacles in the way of progress and hope for the future.  In the words of the author, their responses were “full of optimism, creativity, and hope.” To read more on this subject, visit the full article online at the Natural Home website.