By Martin Godfrey Cook
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He is most famously known for the geodesic dome, which combines the sphere, as the most efficient volume container, with the tetrahedron, which gives the most efficient structural strength-to-weight ratio. Fuller was awarded US patents and developed the concept in the 1950s. The geodesic dome is the only structure that gets stronger and lighter in density with size – some 300,000 geodesic domes are built worldaround (as Fuller would say: worldwide is a flatearth term). Famous geodesic domes include the Biosphere at the Montreal Expo in 1967, Spaceship Earth at Disney World in Florida and the Eden Centre in Cornwall.
The Gaia Theory The Gaia theory is named after the Greek earth goddess, and proposes that the planet’s biosphere is a complex, holistic and interrelated system – like a single living organism. This ecological hypothesis was first mooted by James Lovelock and published as a paper in 1974, coauthored with biologist Lynne Margulis. Their ideas that the planet is a self-regulating system, with physics, chemistry, biology and humanity comprising a homogenous living system, is now an accepted theory, not to mention a branch of earth science.
On less controversial ground, there is no doubt that we need to build a zero carbon-built environment – and there is no place like starting at home with a zero-carbon house. Linear versus circular systems – the holistic zero-carbon house. PROGRESS AND GROWTH At the beginning of the twenty-first century we find ourselves potentially careering towards ecological and environmental catastrophe on a global scale – which obviously also threatens concomitant social and economic disaster. The triple bottom line of the new mantra of sustainability is environmental, economic and social sustainability.