Challenge Response (limit 1500 words).
In order to win The Buckminster Fuller Challenge, your entry must clearly convey how your solution exemplifies the trimtab principle and meets the Entry Criteria stated below:
Entry criteria
- Comprehensive — a clear demonstration of holistic systems thinking.
- Anticipatory — projectively tracking critical trends and needs; identifying and assessing long term consequences of proposed solutions.
- Ecologically responsible — reflective and supportive of nature's underlying processes, patterns and principles.
- Verifiable — able to withstand rigorous empirical testing.
- Replicable — capable of being readily undertaken by others.
- Achievable — likely to be implemented successfully and broadly adopted.
Outline - what needs to be described
Within the context of these criteria, please address the following: (*)
- Describe the problem(s) you intend to solve and/or the preferred state you intend to achieve.
- Describe your solution and your plan to implement it.
- Describe how you will finance your solution and make it economically viable.
- Describe who will take your solution to the next stage of development (include your qualifications and/or those of your team, and any strategic partners).