The Day I Met Bucky Fuller

Everyone who’s ever met Buckminster Fuller can remember that day — and the shift it caused in their life.

I’d like to invite you to join me and my Bucky story on Tuesday August 13th at 10am PST or 6pm PST at www.onfullerliving.com

While a high school senior, my dad invited me to attend a lecture at the local community college.  I had never heard of Buckminster Fuller, but my dad knew it would be interesting.  Boy was it ever!  Bucky held everyone spellbound for three hours, offering a tour of the universe and humans’ place in it.  I drifted between amazement, wonder and even a bit of slumber.  I was a smart kid in school, but I couldn’t really tell you what he said — other than I knew it was real important.

Years later at a Hunger Project board meeting, I was honored again to hear Bucky — and hung on every word.  This time someone asked him, “what should we do?”  He admonished us all that day to read “Critical Path”, his final major book that outlined humanity’s steps to survival.  He said it was “touch and go.”  That was a warning and a challenge.

I had played the World Game event with Marshall Thurber, which offered a visceral experience of the global condition.  But not until reading Critical Path (page 206) did I discover the next project for my life.  There it was — the World Game’s ‘highest priority objective is integrating the world electrical energy grid’ — enabling us to access abundant local and remote renewable energy resources.  This was the beginning of the Global Energy Network Institute.

Now, the initiative to link renewable energy resources between regions is being espoused just last month by NOAA scientist James Hansen, Robert Kennedy Jr, Al Gore and T. Boone Pickens.  Bucky was right — the world was just in lag.

Buckminster Fuller has been one of the most influential people in my life, and I’d like to share some of my lessons.  I also want to thank all the previous experts for sharing their Bucky lessons during this event: Mark Victor Hansen, DC Cordova, Marshall Thurber, Bobbi DePorter, and Tom Crum. 

Please join me for this FREE event on Tuesday.  It’s easy to listen on the phone or on-line.

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Peter Meisen