12 Degrees of Freedom
"I did not set out to design a geodesic dome. I set out to discover the principles operative in Universe. For all I knew, this could have led to a pair of flying slippers."

Bucky Fuller

Freedom By Design

Sustainable Solutions Without Unsuspected and Unwanted "Externalities"

Design science is “the effective application of the principles of science to the conscious design of our total environment in order to help make the Earth’s finite resources meet the needs of all of humanity without disrupting the ecological processes of the planet.”

Comprehensive means dealing with whole systems, the globe, all of humanity and all of the critical variables affecting the problems and needs of Earth and her passengers.

Anticipatory means preparing for a crisis in advance of its occurrence and acting for both the present and future needs of humanity.


Design is an integrative process – the synthesizing of parts into a whole.

Science is the logical, systematic and empirical method of research and ordering of experience.

World Grid
Global Energy Network Initiative
Leonid Brezhnev and Pierre Trudeau
"This world electric grid, with its omni-integrated advantage, will deliver its electric energy anywhere, to anyone, at any one time, at one common rate. This will make possible a world-around uniform costing and pricing system for all goods and services based realistically on the time-energy metabolic accounting system of Universe."(Bucky Fuller)

The Buckminster Fuller Challenge from Buckminster Fuller Institute on Vimeo.