Sustainable Growth is a world class oxymoron. A “Sustainable Growth” is an insult to the intelligence of those that possess this rare quality. An impossible theorem. This is the first part of a 50 days long, tearing to shreds of the absurdity that sustainable growth is the future of humanity, series on TheTrimTab. We start with a conversation... Click Here to Continue Reading

— Submitted by Kelly Ritchie — I think an infinite return on money invested is just errant nonsense. I would go so far as to say it is gamblers bullshit to him/herself or as Fuller would say, marketer’s fool’s gold. Reasoning…..I go to the casino I have $100.00 when I start and I win a $900.00 I have an increase my... Click Here to Continue Reading

When I was invited to give this speech, I was asked if I could give a simple short talk that was “direct, naked, taut, honest, passionate, lean, shivering, startling, and graceful.” Boy, no pressure there. But let’s begin with the startling part. Hey, Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being... Click Here to Continue Reading

Let’s put some numbers together: If Peter from GENI (Global Environment for Network Innovations ) is correct, a 200 miles square collects sufficient solar energy to power ALL human activity. Let’s assume that: 1-    Distribution is not a problem. (either the grid does it, or better, the equipment is locally installed…... Click Here to Continue Reading

Crash Course – 18 – Environmental Data In Crash Course Chapter 18: The Environment, Chris Martenson explains how multiple essential resources are being depleted at ever faster rates. Our money system requires continual economic growth, but energy depletion will run headlong into dwindling resource returns to limit future growth options.... Click Here to Continue Reading

An Easy To Read List of Bucky Fuller’s Principles For Making The World Work for 100% Of Humanity. — Most people see that not everything works well in the world and I am often asked: “what can I do about it?” Comprehensive thinker Bucky Fuller’s drive was to “make the world work for 100% of humanity”; Taking... Click Here to Continue Reading

  Following last week Bucky Call about Scenario Universe, I thought it would be a good idea to study what Buckminster Fuller really had in mind when talking about Universe and how precisely he defined it. Bucky always started with the universe: we must sensorialy and holisticaly experience his starting point… One bite size chunks of co-exploration... Click Here to Continue Reading

From Synergetics, by R. Buckminster Fuller. 321.01 When people say of Universe, “I wonder what is outside its outside?” they are trying to conjure a unitary conception and are asking for a single picture of an infinitely transforming, nonsimultaneous scenario. Therefore, their question is not only unanswerable but unrealistic, and... Click Here to Continue Reading

  The Euclidean Greeks assumed not only that the millions of points and instant planes existed independently of one another, but that the complex was always the product of endlessly multipliable simplexes to be furnished by an infinite resource of additional components.   The persistence of the Greeks’ original mis-conceptioning of geometry... Click Here to Continue Reading

The Bucky Call will celebrate the coming anniversary of Charles Darwin, with two special calls: Next week February 12th, we will talk about: Evolution, Specialization and Extinction… With the world specializing more and more almost exclusively on making money, isn’t the banking crisis the, in the nick of time, ‘gentle tap on the... Click Here to Continue Reading