Flower Power Realized

The sudden blossoming of renewable energies is filling Buckyworld with hope today.

One such project is IBM’s Sunflower. 

Set to launch in 2017, this new kind of flower power can not only provide electricity but also desalinate water for sanitation and drinking. A group of several solar generators could provide enough fresh water for an entire town. It tracks the sun and always points in the best direction for collecting rays, just as a real sunflower does. This is an excellent example of Biomimicry, which Bucky said was the only science that could save us. As he explained many times, since Nature is always right, by learning how to do things the way Nature does, we can prove ourselves worthy of continuance as a species on United Spaceship Planet Earth.

Add these exciting new technologies to all President Obama is doing to address climate change, and to the growing wariness of the greedy and selfish oil industry, there is new hope that we may be at long last on the garden pathway toward true planetary sustainability.

Knowledge gives people the courage speak up and demand clean energy now, so please share Buckyworld with your friends.

Author: Patricia Ravasio

I love speaking about ideas for achieving humanity’s success, which were passed on to me in 1982 by American genius Buckminster Fuller. Bucky’s ideas and integrities reflect subtle shifts in thinking necessary to help humanity find a more sustainable path to the future. Or at least to know we were leaning in the right direction. View all posts by Patricia Ravasio