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Årets vinnare av The Buckminster Fuller Challange är Dr. John Todd, med sitt förslag för en radikal omvandling av natur och ekonomi enligt ekologiska principer i Appalacherna [sic], där aggressiv gruvdrift dels förstört naturen, och vars slutprodukt, kol, bidragit hårt till utsläpp av koldioxid.

Så här är planen för att gå in i en post-kol-tidsålder:

  • Steg 1: "This will include the huge task of detoxifying the trillions of gallons of coal slurry that is held in reservoirs throughout the region. This will involve eco-machines designed to render the material harmless to the environment and local inhabitants as well as to create beneficial products from the treated slurry solids."

  • Steg 2: "This will include a regional reforestation initiative, which has already been researched and is in the planning phase. It involves new forests, agro-forests and planting short rotation, fast growing woody crops for biomass production for subsequent conversion into fuels and other energy sources."

  • Steg 3: "Coal can be replaced with renewable sources of energy. Already suitable Appalachian wind sites have been discovered that can provide competitive sources of energy. [...] [I]f it is paired with another renewable energy source like woody biomass from willows and poplars, a viable energy system can be developed."

  • Steg 4: Folket äger landet.
Läs hela det vinnande projektförslaget (PDF).

Vinnande förslag ska följa Trimtab-principen. Buckminster-citat:

"Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary -- the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there's a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trimtab.

It's a miniature rudder. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trimtab. Society thinks it's going right by you, that it's left you altogether. But if you're doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go.

So I said, call me Trimtab."

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