Welcome to the Buckminster Fuller Challenge Idea Index, a database of entries submitted to the Buckminster Fuller Challenge. We offer this Idea Index as a source of inspiration and hope, as a trimtab in itself. The goal of the Idea Index is to catalyze and facilitate the support needed to implement truly comprehensive solutions. Every individual or team entered in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge is given the choice to ‘opt-in’ to the Index following the conclusion of the selection process. 159 individuals or teams have participated in the launch of the Idea Index with solutions tackling problems ranging from the energy crisis, hunger, transportation, housing, and everything in between. To ease the search process, projects have been sorted by topic and selection status. Featured projects will be rotated frequently.

We encourage you to share your knowledge and resources with the projects included in the Idea Index. We have provided tools to allow you to contact the individual or team who submitted each project via email (or if you prefer, to contact BFI about the project). To do so, simply create a user account, log in, and click the appropriate "Contact" link in the gray box on the right side of your screen when viewing a project. Click here for more detailed information about the Idea Index