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.

The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) announced today that CMPBS will advance to the final stage of the 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge. CMPBS’s entry “Beyond the Petroleum Era: A Proto-Cooperative Means for Re-Mineralizing Coastal Regions” was selected as one of thirty three finalists. The team’s entry is a tool for developing crowdsourced solutions in a converged digital/physical space and proposes building systems for hurricane ravaged Galveston, Texas. The jury will announce the winner of the competition in mid-May 2009 and the finalist’s entries will be available on the Idea Index after that announcement.

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.

In October 2007, CMPBS partnered with Rich MacMath at HDR Architecture, and John Motloch at Ball State University on a competition entry for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge. The entry, called BioMosaics, is an interactive planning tool that allows participants to “plan land land uses with the goal of balancing natural resourcs supply and sink functions (i.e. capital throughput) with basic human life support needs.”

BioMosaics was one of 17 semi-finalists (out of 160 total entries) in the Challenge. Competition entries can now be viewed online via the Buckminster Fuller Idea Index. The BioMosaics entry can be found here.  CMPBS congratulates Dr. John Todd on his winning entry: Comprehensive Design for a Carbon Neutral World: The Challenge of Appalachia.