Congrats to @livingbuilding on winning 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge (+$100,000) from @BuckyFullerInst!

Living Building Challenge wins 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge - Living Building Challenge, Awards, Award Winners

Congrats to @livingbuilding on winning 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge (+$100,000) from @BuckyFullerInst!

The Living Building Challenge (LBC), the green-building certification system administered by the International Living Future Institute (ILFI), is the winner of the 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge. As such, the LBC and ILFI have won $100,000 to further develop and scale the program and its work. Awarded by the Buckminster Fuller Institute, the challenge recognizes initiatives that take a comprehensive and anticipatory design approach to advance human well-being and the health of the planet’s ecosystem. The LBC has been a finalist for the annual prize every year since 2010. Entries must be comprehensive, anticipatory (factoring in critical future trends and needs as well as projecting effects of implementation), ecologically responsible, feasible, verifiable (able to withstand rigorous empirical testing), and replicable. The LBC requires projects to meet 20 imperatives acr...

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@ecostructure » 08 Jun '12, 1pm
Congrats to @livingbuilding on winning 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge (+$100,000) from @BuckyFullerInst! [link]
@katieweeks » 08 Jun '12, 1pm
Congrats to @livingbuilding on winning 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge (+$100,000) from @BuckyFullerInst! [link]