The Four Amazing Finalists for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge

June 9, 2011 • 12:00 pm PDT
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Tomorrow in New York City, the Buckminster Fuller Institute will announce the winner of its annual Buckminster Fuller Challenge. The challenge, which has been called "Socially-Responsible Design's Highest Award," provides $100,000 to "support the development and implementation of a strategy that has significant potential to solve humanity's most pressing problems."

The four finalists are all, predictably, damn impressive. (Though to be totally honest, I was disappointed that the Global Village Construction Set, a semi-finalist that I've written about before, didn't make the cut.) Here are the four projects that the BFI's jury determined to be the boldest, most visionary, and, importantly, most tangible of them all. Tune in tomorrow to see who takes the prize.

Ben Jervey
Contributing Editor, Environment

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