Edited on May 2nd. 2009

In April of 2009, two years into The Bucky Call, the core group has decided to allow the call to become something else by opening The Bucky Call to all – We are in the process of deciding how we can make this happen. Should you, after reading this page and this post, decided that you would like to actively participate in The Bucky Call, please leave your name and a contact e-mail in the comments section at the bottom of this page. When we have decided what technology to use, we will contact you to confirm your participation. Thank you.

-Fred Dupont

Since May of 2007, The Bucky Call group is active every week; there is a one hour call which materials, reports and audio podcasts can be found on TheTrimTab.com domain. Active Members are from the following countries: Australia, Canada, Mexico, Peru, New Zealand, China, France, Japan.

Where: Free Conference Call

Bucky Fuller, book, Critical Path

Conference Dial-in Number: (invitation only)
Host Access Code: ******
Participant Access Code: *******
When: Thursday nights Time: 7:00 PM Phoenix Arizona time zone (each member will need to check how that lines up with the time zone in their area)
Duration: 1 hour

Rules:

Are you willing to:

1. Be on Time. Shows respect for the only nonrenewable resource of others / a chance to build trust. Let us know if you will be absent or late.
2. Support All Questions. “Why did someone ask that question?” Nothing is irrelevant – one person’s tangent may bring the entire group to a deeper understanding and steer the conversation to unplanned areas.
3. Be Willing to Ask Questions and Share Insights.
4. Tell Your Truth.

- OK to allow members to flow in and out of group, but stressed continuity of commitment.
– Sessions are being taped and notes taken to ‘create an artifact’. The archive may have independent value in the future.  —Note: TheTrimTab.com is the artifact envisioned here—
– Study materials emailed out Monday for Thursday call.  —Now posted on TheTrimTab.com—
– Planned call length 1 hour with flexibility at the mercy of group agreement.
– Intention to use multiple forms of media – to do more with less & gain experience.
– Agreement to be prepared for the meeting by reading the weekly article.

Link to Critical Path The Bucky Call study materials

Link to our Podcast page where you can access some of the unedited recordings of The Bucky Calls weekly conferences. (This feature is not up yet, it will be announced shortly)

Critical Path - All There, The Bucky Call

- Introduction to Critical Path -

“Humanity is moving ever deeper into crisis – a crisis without precedent.

First, it is a crisis brought about by cosmic evolution irrevocably intent upon completely transforming omnidisintegrated humanity from a complex of around-the-world, remotely-deployed-from-one-another, differently colored, differently credoed, differently cultured, differently communicating, and differently competing entities into a completely integrated, comprehensively interconsiderate, harmonious whole.

Second, we are in an unprecedented crisis because cosmic evolution is also irrevocably intent upon making omni-integrated humanity omnisuccessful, able to live sustainingly at an unprecedentedly higher standard of living for all Earthians than has ever been experienced by any;

able to live entirely within its cosmic-energy income instead of spending its cosmic energy savings account (i.e., the fossil fuels) or spending its cosmic-capital plant and equipment account (i.e., atomic energy)-the atoms with which our Spaceship Earth and its biosphere are structured and equipped-a spending folly no less illogical than burning your house-and-home to keep the family warm on an unprecedentedly cold midwinter night.

Humanity’s cosmic-energy income account consists entirely of our gravity-and star (99 percent Sun)-distributed cosmic dividends of water power, tidal power, wave power, wind power, vegetation-produced alcohols, methane gas, vulcanism, and so on.

Humanity’s present rate of total energy consumption amounts to only one four-millionth of one percent of the rate of its energy income. …Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to make it economically on this planet and in the Universe.

We do.”

- Buckminster Fuller, from the introduction to Critical Path

Outside links: There is a “Reading Critical Path” discussion forum at the BFI website; unfortunately, it is mostly inactive and in dire need of revival & a driver. The full text of Synergetics 1 and 2 in indexed HTML.

Should you want to actively participate in The Bucky Call – Study of Critical Path -please leave your name and a contact e-mail in the comments below. (We do not spam nor share your contacts, period.)

To know more, read opening The Bucky Call to all.