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"If success or failure of the planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do ... How would I be? What would I do?"

- Buckminster Fuller

If all designers, engineers, and innovators possessed Bucky's sense of urgency to heal and progress the health of our planet and humankind, our Wii's would be dusty and the bars would be empty. But maybe all we need is a little push--some kind of incentive--and the Buckminster Fuller Challenge aims to do just that. The call for entries specifies "design science solutions within a broad range of human endeavor that exemplify the trimtab principle. Trimtabs demonstrate how small amounts of energy and resources precisely applied at the right time and place can produce maximum advantageous change."

Each year, this challenge will bear a single winner to be awarded with $100,000 to use towards the development and implementation of their winning concept. The entry period for this year is between September 4th and October 30th, 2007.