Bucky

Buckminster Fuller was a man from the future. His concepts and philosophies would still be considered progressive today, 80 years after he began to publish them. He coined the term “Spaceship Earth” and recognized the importance of minimizing our impact on our environment, striving always to do more with less, and devoting his life to making his philosophy practical by designing hyper-efficient houses and cars that maximized their resources, then applying the same principles to larger communities and even earth in “an experiment, to find what a single individual [could] contribute to changing the world and benefiting all humanity” (Wikipedia/NYTimes). He also wrote a pre-net blog, The Dymaxion Chronofile, in which he documented every 15 minutes of his life. Of course, his thinking was so far ahead of his time that he had no commercial success and is remembered as a visionary designer of a better life that we have yet to live. Still, as the conservation movement grows stronger, I believe he will be recognized as a one of its most important founders.