We’re looking for solutions that address multiple problems without creating new ones down the road— integrated strategies dealing with key social, economic, environmental, policy and cultural issues.

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Named after the innovator who designed the geodesic dome, the Buckminster Fuller Institute has announced its call for entries to the 2011 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, an annual $100,000 prize program that supports the development and implementation of a solution that has significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. Winners over the past years provide solid evidence in support of this philosophy.

“We’re looking for solutions that address multiple problems without creating new ones down the road— integrated strategies dealing with key social, economic, environmental, policy and cultural issues. Our entry criteria is deeply inspired by what Fuller termed comprehensive anticipatory design science— an approach we feel holds an important key to the design of strategies aimed at having a transformative effect on the system as a whole. We are very grateful for the recognition the prize recipients have received to date and hope this will lead to the greater understanding and wide-spread application of the whole systems, design science approach we are championing.” said executive director Elizabeth Thompson in the press release.

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According to a new study, the Caribbean islands represent one of the perfect location for the development of renewable energy.

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