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Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award Goes to Dr. John Todd; Role for Cellulosic Biofuels

Posted on August 02, 2008

The Buckminster Fuller Institute has awarded Dr. John Todd the first-annual Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award for his submission entitled Comprehensive Design for a Carbon Neutral World: The Challenge of Appalachia. There are over one and a half million acres of strip-mined lands in Appalachia. Coal mining practices have removed mountaintops and filled valleys with the resulting overburden.Landscapes and communities have been devastated. The primary rationale for this is that thenation needs the coal for electricity. Fifty percent of the USA s electricity comes from burningcoal. Howev...

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