Wind Sucks. It Doesn't Blow. And Other Insights from Buckminster Fuller
By Pete Chasar
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Buckminster Fuller, who invented the geodesic dome, coined the phrase “Space Ship Earth,” and had a carbon molecule named for him, was one of the greatest thinkers of the Twentieth Century. When I first read Fuller in the late 1960s, I was intrigued by this comprehensive insights regarding evolution, history, technology and existence itself. This short, easy-to-read book is my attempt to explain Bucky’s insights without his rambling and sometimes-convoluted language. Despite my book’s simplicity, when Bucky read the manuscript, he was impressed with its “attention and faithfulness to detail.” In addition to its clear, simple language, my book uses photos and illustrations to reinforce Bucky’s profound concepts.
Pete Chasar
Pete Chasar, who grew up in New Jersey and for 28 years lived in Arizona, is now a writer and artist on the southern Oregon coast. While in Arizona, he became an avid hiker and advocate for preservation, especially preservation of Scottsdale's McDowell Mountains. He was a founding member and original chair of the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy, a member of Scottsdale's McDowell Mountains Task Force and two committees of Scottsdale's McDowell Sonoran Preserve Commission, and served as communications chair for the committee behind a successful 1995 Scottsdale preserve tax ballot measure. Today, one of his paintings hangs permanently at the McDowell Preserve's Gateway building, and he was recently honored at the dedication of that building. In addition to his achievements as a volunteer preservationist, Chasar had a 35-year advertising career and wrote the Keep America Beautiful theme: People start pollution. People can stop it.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A wonderfully concise book that beautifully describes key points of Fuller's oeuvre. Makes Bucky understandable for all
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fuller is a genius, of well read and common sense variety. His essays are brief, truthful, and timeless for the modern age. You really don’t have a right to weigh in on modern world issues unless you’ve read his essays.
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Wind Sucks. It Doesn't Blow. And Other Insights from Buckminster Fuller - Pete Chasar
Wind Sucks. It Doesn’t Blow.
And Other Insights from Buckminster Fuller
by Pete Chasar
Copyright 1981 Pete Chasar Smashwords Edition
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When I first read Buckminster Fuller in the late 1960s, I was intrigued by his comprehensive insights on evolution, history, technology and what he called Universe.
Many years later I wrote a manuscript that explained Bucky’s concepts without his rambling and sometimes-convoluted language. According to his assistant, Bucky read the manuscript and, despite its simplicity, was impressed with my attention and faithfulness to detail.
Recently, I pulled the manuscript out of the drawer where I had stashed it 30 years earlier. Though Bucky's insights go back half a century, they're still refreshing and relevant.
—Pete Chasar
TABLE OF CONTENTS
No Instant Universe or Pudding
The Disappearing Rubber Glove
The Shortest Distance—Not a Straight Line
Life is But a Dream.
You’re Not on Solid Ground.
Nature is No Square.
The Honeybee’s Real Job—And yours
One Plus One Equals Four.
You’re Not What You Eat.
Your Lifeless Body
An Amazing Spaceship
Earth’s Screwy Trip Through Space
The Sun Won’t Come Up Tomorrow.
Poof, There Goes Antarctica!
Our Wispy Ocean
The Other Adam and Eve Story
How Cattle Gave Birth to Inflation
Why 13 is Unlucky.
The Nothing Idea that Changed the World
A Cold Fact that Stopped Hitler and Napoleon
Seeing is Not Believing.
Overspecialization Kills.
Wind Sucks. It Doesn’t Blow.
Great Strength Takes Pull, Not Push.
More from Less
The Pollution Solution
Heaps of Wealth
$1,000,000-a-Gallon Gasoline
Wasting the Energy of 200 Million Horses
Throwaway Supertankers
Energy-Gobbling Cities
More Energy Overnight
No Energy Shortage
The Great Population Myth
The Invisible Revolution
Real Wealth
REFERENCES
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PETE’S OTHER BOOKS
NO INSTANT UNIVERSE OR PUDDING
Instant seems to be one of today's most popular words. But, with the exception of thought, nothing is really instant, not even light.
That was proven early in the twentieth century when scientists discovered that radiation (light) travels at 186,000 miles per second. This means that the sunlight now striking your skin or entering your eyes actually left the Sun eight minutes ago, and