“Bucky” as Buckminster Fuller was known, was a renowned futurist, inventor, architect, systems thinker, and designer. He encouraged radical innovation that supports whole systems design-thinking. In our final guest blog of the year, Climate and Sustainability Leader Barbara Merz puts out a call to action to activate a lineage of interdisciplinary design-thinkers committed to extending Fuller’s lifetime endeavor to make the world work for all of life.

Having led global campaigns to address climate and sustainability around the world, my work has meant that I have witnessed over-and-over the horrors of sudden climate shifts. Compounding disasters reveal chronic deficiencies in disaster preparedness coupled with deficient design for a rapidly evolving planet.

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