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    Wind Sucks. It Doesn't Blow. And Other Insights from Buckminster Fuller
    Wind Sucks. It Doesn't Blow. And Other Insights from Buckminster Fuller
    Wind Sucks. It Doesn't Blow. And Other Insights from Buckminster Fuller
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    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.

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    PublisherPete Chasar
    Release dateSep 19, 2014
    ISBN9781311406330
    Wind Sucks. It Doesn't Blow. And Other Insights from Buckminster Fuller
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    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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      A wonderfully concise book that beautifully describes key points of Fuller's oeuvre. Makes Bucky understandable for all
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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

    This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

    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

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