Yesterday I submitted the SystemBigPlay.org idea as one of the ideas for the American Public Media Consumed website. http://sustainability.publicradio.org/consumer_dilemma/. I noticed that they changed the title of my idea and gave it a feasibility rating of 20%. I think that only reflects how stuck our culture is in the current value chain. For I indent for the SystemBigPlay.org project to go forward. They did leave the web link in though. Nice of them.
There is a new System Big Play web site under construction at www.SystemBigPlay.org. Since quite a bit of time had been spent gathering materials for various grant proposals, the web site is a natural consequence. Material is slowly migrating from draft form on my computer to on the web. I hope to have a newsletter out soon.
Dave
Kathy Mroczko took some wonderful pictures of the Lab School homecoming parade float. They can be found at http://www.visualtour.com/shownp.asp?T=1244991.
Thank you Andrea Schweitzer for sending me this one.
The Science Channel is producing a television series on "green technology
inventions", and they have asked the DaVinci Institute to serve as the
go-between to find these inventors.
They will be filming in Colorado between Oct 22nd and Nov 14th. They will
finish up the day before the Colorado Inventor Showcase
(http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=gwp7nfcab.0.74wg7dcab.4gdo5zbab.8343&ts=S0289&p=htt
p%3A%2F%2Fwww.davinciinstitute.com%2Fpage.php%3FID%3D185).
If you have a "green technology invention "that you would like the Science
Channel to consider,
please contact Thomas Frey at the DiVinci Institute at 303-666-4133 and he
will make the introduction.
The System Big Play Project will be submitting a proposal for the Buckminster Fuller Design Challenge. The challenge will give a $100,000 cash award to a project that will help lead humanity to sustainability upon this earth.
“The Buckminster Fuller Challenge seeks submissions of design science solutions within a broad range of human endeavor that exemplify the trimtab principle. Trimtabs demonstrate how small amounts of energy and resources precisely applied at the right time and place can produce maximum advantageous change.
Solutions should be:
· Comprehensive — a clear demonstration of holistic systems thinking.
· Anticipatory — projectively tracking critical trends and needs; identifying and assessing long term consequences of proposed solutions.
· Ecologically responsible — reflective and supportive of nature's underlying processes, patterns and principles.
· Verifiable — able to withstand rigorous empirical testing.
· Replicable — capable of being readily undertaken by others.
· Achievable — likely to be implemented successfully and broadly adopted. “
The System Big Play Project is uniquely qualified to meet this challenge.
There is an extremely tight schedule to fulfill this goal. The deadline for entry is October 30th. I am quickly assembly a team. We will be seeking the help of The Colorado Nonprofit Association to get started quickly. Grant writing has already begun amongst those people who already expect to be part of the team. If anyone is interested in learning more please call me at (970) 484-4577.
