"THE BUCKY" is an award honoring the many contributions of the inventor Buckminster Fuller,
over a period of 50 years. Fuller developed many ideas and creative inventions that astounded people around the world. In
providing a new solution for housing the world's increasing population, he developed his most famous invention the geodesic
dome. He was always guided by the principle of solving the world's problems to procure more and more life support with less
and less resources.
Fuller foresaw our current energy problems and championed renewable energy resources, especially
solar and wind at a time when oil and coal were considered to be unlimited.
Some examples of such resourceful development of energy without using traditional souyrces
are Fair Oaks Farm (they utilize the manure produced by thousands of dairy cows to generate methane gas to power and heat
all of their buildings) or the Panama Canal utilizing forces of nature and rainfall to power the canal's lock system,
perhaps the closest mankind has gotten to a perpetual motion system.
"THE BUCKY" is given at the State Bowl in years where the FPSB judges feel that there is an
exceptionally creative solution that Buckminster Fuller would have thought unique!
