Ben Mack and Bucky's Magic

This was it, the last evening of Ben Mack's webinar series "Profitable Magic". This session was a little different. Ben invited Peter Meisen, steward of GENI, Global Energy Network Initiative to speak about the legacy of R Buckminster Fuller (Bucky for short). Bucky started GENI. He was an intellect with ideas that are even more prevalent today.

Mr. Meisen discussed issues of renewable resources and the environment. Some key points:
- The Wind Industry has been growing at 40% every 2 years or so. There were 10,000 mega watts world wide of wind energy in 2000, now there are 80,000MW around the world.
-The Solar Industry is also exploding, 30-40% every 2 years (or so).
-Mr Meisen, with GENI, formed an index so that people can invest in renewable energies.Who are the leading companies who are taking Carbon out of all their services in the varying sectors? You can find out more about this at http://www.kld.com/ . see Global 100 Index.
-In the past 600,000 years, Carbon ppm(parts per million) never went above 300. In the last 100 years, we'll be lucky the high that we reach is 450!!!

Now, although I am certainly NOT an expert on Bucky Fuller, this is what I gathered fro this webinar. It sounds like he was a man who was before his time. Some of his sayings came up in the conversation and I'm going to list them so you can do with them what you will, I'll just be pleased that you read and thought about them. Oh and they're not necessarily word for word, but I think they're pretty close to what I heard.
-Spontaneous Cooperation, How can we make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest amount of time?
-You never change things to fight the existing reality, but you change things to make the existing reality obsolete.
-Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science (it was suggested need would need to "google" this term in order to properly understand it), bu t I think it's something like being able to design something or idea while predicting future variables like increase in population.
-Do not fight forces, use those forces to fight.
and my favorite
-Love is metaphysical Gravity.

Now, while all this was extremely interesting, and valuable as entrepreneurs are often the ones trying to make a difference, I was still left with the question of relevance to the Magic of it all.
Then it struck me. While the environmental relevance was a stretch for me as far as my business development, R Buckminster Fuller is clearly an extremely important figure to many.(As he should be) and in sharing him with all of us, Ben Mack has made him so to us as well.
Not only that, we will be telling all of our friends about him, and starting conversations on the environment. One message can reach the eyes of many, like ripples in a pond, like MAGIC. Let's see how far we can take it beloved people!

Thank you so much Ben for such an enlightening experience. I do hope to meet you one day, have a drink and a chat. You sound interesting and enlightening on so many levels.

One more step towards success everyone!
Cheers to you
Laura Gagnon