Having trouble viewing this email? View it in your browser. BFI Updates Job Opening at BFI BFI is looking for a motivated and flexible individual to fill the role of Office Manager. Application deadline Feb. 18th; learn more about the position here. 2011 Challenge Entries, Idea Index, Next Week! BFI will be publishing this year's incredible crop of entries to our Idea Index in a few days time, stay posted! Visionary Urban Design Lecture Series BFI is proud to sponsor Paul Guzzardo's March 3rd lecture at Pratt's School of Architecture:  New Ways to Smear the Street with Our Extended Epistemology. More here

 

Trends and Perspectives

RBF Dome Awarded 125K Grant! Congrats to our friends in Carbondale, IL working to preserve Bucky's former dome home. Read more here.

Massive Oyster Reef Restoration Over 500 volunteers helped in the first steps to make Alabama's coastal areas more resilient to impacts from hurricanes, oil spills and climate change. Via treehugger.

For Wildlife, A Safe Highway Crossing A $40,000 prize to an interdisciplinary team was awarded for the design of a bridge intended to carry wild animals across a major interstate in Colorado. Continue via NYTimes.

 

Resources

dMass Watch this fascinating video about Bucky's principles and doing better with less. ViadMASS.

Visualizing.org Making sense of complex issues through data and design. Explore more here.

CarbonNation in Theaters this Week A climate change solutions movie, that doesn't even care if you believe in climate change. Find a select theater.

 

Events

Vertical Urban Factory An overview of significant factory buildings from the past 100 years (including Fuller's CottonMill prototype). Now showing at the Skyscraper Museum in NY.

TetraMap - Making the Connections An innovative and practical learning event featuring dynamic international experts. February 22 & 23, 2011 Auckalnd, New Zealand

 

Vol. 12 No. 2

SUPPORT BFI The opportunities to do more in extending Bucky's legacy have never been more abundant. Now is the time to get involved and help ensure the sustainability and continued growth of BFI. Your financial support, no matter the size, makes a huge difference. Please support our work today! FEATURED STORE ITEM Bucky Quote Poster - Love(Valentine's Day Special) Red Poster with quote: "Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and tender and compassionately attuned to other than self." Dimensions: 32" x 22". Purchase here

FROM THE IDEA INDEX Watergy Greenhouse 2010 Runner Up Watergy is a bionic concept, immitating the biosphere within an enclosure, using wind, rain and related energy dissipation. It allows 85% recycling of irrigation water, while accumulation of CO2 leads to higher rates of photosynthesis. Further applications are plant protection (no pesticides), processing of greywater, desalination and heat supply.

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