understand that it is in our own best interest to “work in harmony with Nature”? How do we communicate the value of, at least, contemplating doing “whatever it was we were going to do before they told us we had to earn a living”?

As a self taught Adaptive Design Scientist I have spent most of the last 50 years observing and contemplating the whys and wisdom of human earthling achievement and failure. The overriding lesson of my experiments and experience is summarized by Cary Grant’s Dr Praetorius in the movie People Will Talk, “If Old Mother Nature had her way there wouldn’t be a human being left on the planet…she periodically tries to wipe us out by means of pestilence, disease and disaster. That’s why the human race has been at war with old Mother Nature since it became the human race” Yet we do not seem to comprehend and respect the power of our adversary, even though recent Natural disasters should have us clamoring for peace talks.

A Solution:
I have written a novel, "Considering SomeplacElse". At its core it is a book about allocation of resources and how this distribution affects the life’s work of a subset of human earthlings. BUT, it is disguised as a fictional tale about a chronically underemployed Baby Boomer, a soon-to-be-Governor millionaire playboy and a utopian experiment created by a homeless man who was allowed to win the lottery as part of a test devised by God and Nature to determine the fate of human earthlings.

Early Adopters (Adapters?)
Another truism from my life is Richard Feinman’s “Persepective is worth 80 IQ points”

My project will place "B.L. Lindstrom’s Considering SomeplacElse*" on a web site using some revolutionary 3d “e-Book” technology by December 2007 and then ask visitors to apply their perspectives and consider the possibilities afforded merely by allocating resources someplace else.

Visitors will be encouraged to write and submit their “Your-Name-Here’s Considering SomeplacElse” for e-publication. We will accept short stories as well as full length novels, requesting editing only for grammar and spelling. Each author can determine if they will charge a fee to view their work (no more than $5.00 US) or if it will be free.

Making Awareness Fashionable
IF we can get 1/1000th of the traffic generated by a youtube or a myspace, we will be promote understanding to thousands.

IF we can get 1/1,000,000th of our readership to act, we can, potentially, invoke significant change for the better.

IF we can convince our readers that any advancement MUST be in harmony with our environment, then Nature will allow us to continue to do more and more with less and less.

Growing More Mainstream
The next phase of the project will offer hard copy of these works as well as audio versions. (B.L. Lindstrom’s Considering SomeplacElse will be published in February 2008.)

The third phase will present our collective considerations as a series of live action video stories available on the internet and eventually, with the help of God and Nature, on some more traditional broadcast media.

Viability
Is it Comprehensive?
Does this project demonstrate the theory that whole entities, as fundamental components of reality, have an existence other than as the mere sum of their parts?

With over 6 billion Guinea Pig Bs available surely there are more solutions than the over-talking-with-us-or-against-us-dominant-earthlings would have us believe.

Is it Anticipatory?
Does this project act so as to mitigate, nullify, or prevent?

IF it is not too late (and I don’t think it is), any attempt to raise the level of discourse beyond instinctive behaviors and counsel peace with Nature should be considered anticipatory.

Is it Ecologically Responsible?
99.5% of readers prefer to touch hard copy, yet over 50 million Americans read Web Blogs, daily.

While this project is unlikely to cause a wholesale shift to paperless novels, it will demonstrate the value of reading softcopy by charging 4 times as much for hardcopy AND delivering the softcopy months before hardcopy is made available. We are also negotiating with our publisher to print the books on recycled paper or possibly use the McDonough-Braungart Cradle to Cradle approach. Additionally, this will be an on-demand publication process which will minimize the number of books printed for inventory. Unfortunately, since the goal is promote understanding by getting people to read these works, we cannot ignore the preference of 99.5% of our audience, at least, not yet.

Is it Verifiable?
Can we substantiate or confirm the success or failure of this project?

No, not really. We can provide the-how-manys asscociated with this project, but we cannot effectively measure the impact of minds changed and courses altered by our work.

Is it Replicable?
Can others author alternatives to and/or strategies for our war with Mother Nature?

Absolutely and that is the essence of this project.

Is it Achievable?
Will this project accomplish some purpose or effect? Yes
Will we succeed? It depends on how success is measured.
Will we be broadly adopted? IF it is what God and Nature intended

A different perspective on the “Prize”.
In my book, a homeless man turns down a twenty dollar bill stating he only needs a dollar to change the world.

I am confident that the $100,000 prize will be awarded to a project much more deserving, Fullerian and much more in need of funds than my little more-art-than-science-experiment.

But I submit that you have an opportunity, here, to do much more than pick a winner. You have an opportunity to raise the level of Bucky-awareness by creating multiple one dollar “Trim Tab awards” for those of who are capable of allocating their own resources someplace else and who realize the other $99,999 are put to better use elsewhere.

What better way to demonstrate how small amounts of energy and resources precisely applied at the right time and place can produce maximum advantageous change?

* E-copies of "...Considering SomeplacElse" will be provided upon request.