Applications to the Buckminster Fuller Challenge are due Friday, April 12, 5:00 EST. Applications to earn a dMASS nomination to the Challenge are due at the same time. The Buckminster Fuller Institutute has announced jurors for this year’s prize: JAY BALDWIN (“JB”) is an industrial designer currently teaching at California College of the Arts in San [...]
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This article was orignally published at GOOD.is. It is impossible to build a sustainable or resilient society without expanding wealth. Things like renewable energy and materials, recycling and other methods of resource recovery, or collaborative consumption are essential ingredients for sustainability, but they are not nearly enough. Without a concurrent, dramatic expansion of wealth, there will [...]
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Downsizing – whether it’s about companies, houses, or cars – is often a euphemism for doing less with less of everything. But consider the iPhone. When we downsized the fax machine, the scanner, the phone, the weather channel, and a GPS into one device that weighs less than five ounces, we valued it as a [...]
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dMASS Inc. co-founder Howard Brown has published an article today at GOOD.is titled, “Designing Wealth: The Missing Piece in the Sustainability Puzzle.” GOOD offers an interactive platform for “pragmatic idealists” to share ideas. The site allows you to sign in, share articles, and vote by indicating that you think that an article is “good.”
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Looking for more better with less innovations? Each week, dMASS produces a newsletter with a dozen or so new technologies, interesting products, and business strategies. Every issue of Insights, which publishes on Thursdays, also includes a “Think dMASS” brainstorming exercise to help you and your team look at products and services differently. The best part? [...]
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