Pat Ravasio Blog

Rants, raves, ideas and integrities inspired by twentieth century genius R. Buckminster Fuller.

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A special community event, now in its 28th year. We're hoping for a big day to raise money for beautification and habitat projects.

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Chris Hedges Nails It.

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We’re Up Live on the 101 in Silicon Valley. Look Up!

We’re Up Live on the 101 in Silicon Valley. Look Up!

The Girl from Spaceship Earth has slipped in among the big boys of Bay Area tech and now adorns a major commuter artery in America’s tech capital. The image above is, at this moment, on a big backlit billboard along US 101 near Whipple Road. You can see it going both ways. What do you think? Can I do a little crowd sourcing on copy? Should it wear a different headline? Should it just say…

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New Bucky Professorship at Harvard

It’s exciting news on one hand and an exasperated “what took so long” on the other, but Harvard University has just announced a new professorship that is all about Buckminster Fuller, Esteemed Bucky expert and Harvard professor Amy Edmondson apparently contributed to make the position happen. We’ve read all about this long-time coming community news. Here’s hoping they find the right…

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Good news for one of Bucky’s best known domes. Canada and Quebec commit to the Biosphere's future

Good news for one of Bucky’s best known domes. Canada and Quebec commit to the Biosphere’s future

/CNW Telbec/ – Collaboration is key to protecting the environment and combatting climate change. Joining forces is crucial, particularly when it comes to… — Read on www.newswire.ca/news-releases/governments-of-canada-and-quebec-and-city-of-montreal-commit-to-the-biosphere-s-future-815341759.html

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Here's why this new fracking ban in the Northeast is a big deal

Here’s why this new fracking ban in the Northeast is a big deal

“It’s a wonderful thing to be part of.” The official ban on fracking in the basin has been more than a decade in the making. — Read on grist.org/politics/heres-why-this-new-fracking-ban-in-the-northeast-is-a-big-deal/amp/

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Vote for the Bees

A short inspiration about Humanity’s crucial moment

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Happy (125th) Birthday, Buckminster Fuller!

Dearest Bucky, You’ll be happy to know on your birthday that in this year of emergence through emergency, the world seems to be waking up to your timeless wisdom.

Or at least this is the case in my birthday dream for you. Which is this:

Humans are evolving quickly. We understand so much all of a sudden. We know we must realign ourselves with nature, so we are out there camping and forest…

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The breathtaking opportunity of the present.

Humanity’s emergence through emergency is now emerging before our eyes.

We are finding ourselves greatly challenged by events; we must rise up in this time of crisis and evolve ourselves into a syntropic species, which is one that puts the good of the whole first.

Our revolutionary global hunkering down has been filling me with hope that humanity can come together, as one Spaceship Earth,…

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Oligarchs Demand Open America. Scientists Say No.

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Of Domes and Viruses: Brilliant Construction, Maximum Efficiencies

Could Buckminster Fuller’s Synergetic Geometry help humans understand and beat this diabolical new coronavirus?

A just released paper by Antonio Siber, linked below, says maybe it can. The paper addresses the similarities between the structures of Bucky’s famous dome and the wickedly effective new design of the coronavirus.

The similarities are striking. All spheres designed by…

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Forgotten Wisdom We Should Revisit Now

buckyworld.me/world-livingry-service-industry-proposal/

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The New Yorker Praises The Girl from Spaceship Earth

The New Yorker Praises The Girl from Spaceship Earth

My daughter’s innovative young company, Hipcamp, is on a mission to help humans realign themselves with nature, an idea upon which Buckminster Fuller said our survival depended. Her ideas are featured this week in The New Yorker, which called Hipcamp the “AIRBNB of Camping” and extolled the many benefits of sharing and protected private lands. In the article, The New Yorker also gave a very nice…

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SAVING THE WORLD is Women's Work.

SAVING THE WORLD is Women’s Work.

NOW MORE THAN EVER

In 1968, Buckminster Fuller wrote an article for McCall’s Magazine calling for women to step into their rightful places as leaders, explaining how and why women’s leadership was essential to the future of humanity.

Take a few minutes to read this ambitiously drawn portrait from fifty years ago about what life was supposed to have evolved into by now.

Women with…

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The final battle against big oil begins in Northern California.

The final battle against big oil begins in Northern California.

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On Saving Planet and Sanity

Changing our thinking can change the future of the planet, or at least save our sanity. Buckminster Fuller's ideas and integrities for getting through tough times.

If we humans want to eventually “come in for a happy landing,” AS Buckminster Fuller SAID, we NEED TO keep THE conversation going about changes that must happen now in terms of the climate crisis.

The biggest question facing humanity right now is this: How are we ever going to get control of a situation and an industry which we have been unable to get control of – for forty years?  In addition,…

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Bucky and his trim tab are trending

Thanks to a nice, long, and only slightly rambling shout out from Jeff Bridges at the Golden Globes last night, Buckminster Fuller is trending on Twitter.

Here’s what Bridges said in an attempt to inspire us all to save the planet: https://videopress.com/embed/mxron9bq?hd=0&autoPlay=0&permalink=0&loop=0

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