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Each year systems thinkers and design pioneers across a wide spectrum of human endeavor are invited from all over the world to be on the Jury and select a winner of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge. They are often leaders in their respective areas of expertise and generously spend up to three months reviewing entries in a given cycle. Many have participated in programs and events related to the Challenge. It's been a real honor to have them on board and we are very thankful for their participation and contribution.

Members of the 2013 Jury


JAY BALDWIN ("JB") is an industrial designer currently teaching at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, (CCA), lecturing and consulting widely, and writing a book on managing the darker side of technology. He occasionally worked under, for, and with Buckminster Fuller for 33 years and also authored BuckyWorks - Buckminster Fuller's Ideas for Today (1996).



AMY EDMONDSON is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School. Edmondson's research examines leadership, learning and innovation in teams and organizations, and has been published in numerous academic and managerial articles. She also worked for Buckminster Fuller and wrote A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller (1987).



JOHN ELKINGTON is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development. Mr Elkington is Founding Partner & Executive Chairman of Volans, a consultancy and think-tank driving market-based solutions to the future's greatest challenges. John is also the author or co-author of 18 books, a columnist and public speaker. Visit Breakthough Capitalism to read about the program created from the scenarios outlined in his book The Zeronauts - Breaking though the sustainability barrier, and follow John's twitter handle @volansjohn.



JASON MCLENNAN serves as the CEO of the International Living Future Institute – a leading NGO that focuses on the transformation to a world that is socially just, culturally rich and ecologically restorative. McLennan is the author of 4 books and the founder of the Living Building Challenge, widely considered the world’s most progressive green building program. McLennan is a winner of the Buckminster Fuller Prize.



ANDREW REVKIN has covered science and the environment for 30 years in newspapers, magazines, three books, documentaries and his New York Times blog, Dot Earth, winning the country's top science journalism awards multiple times. He was a staff reporter at The Times from 1995 to 2009. Mr. Revkin has been a senior editor of Discover, a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, and a senior writer at Science Digest. Since 2010, he has been senior fellow for environmental understanding at Pace University's Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies.



PEDRO SANCHEZ is Director of the Agriculture and Food Security Center, and Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University's Earth Institute. He served as Director General of the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya from 1991-2001, as Co-chair of the United Nations Millennium Project Hunger Task Force and as Director of the Millennium Villages Project from 2004 – 2010. Dr. Sanchez is Professor Emeritus of Soil Science and Forestry at North Carolina State University, has written successful books on tropical soil science and hunger, serves on many boards, has received three honorary degrees and decorations from universities and governments. Sanchez was anointed Chief by the Luo in Western Kenya with the name of Odera Akang'o, and by the Ikaram of Southern Nigeria with the name of Atunluse. He is the 2002 World Food Prize laureate, a 2004 MacArthur Fellow, and was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.



WOODY TASCH is Founder and Chairman of Slow Money, a 501(c)3 non-profit formed in 2008 to catalyze the flow of investment capital to small food enterprises and to promote new principles of fiduciary responsibility to support sustainable agriculture and the emergence of a restorative economy. Tasch is Chairman Emeritus of Investors' Circle, a nonprofit network of investors that has facilitated the flow of $152 million to 250 sustainability minded, early stage companies and venture funds. For most of the 1990’s Woody was Treasurer of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, where he pioneered mission related investing. He is an experienced venture-capital investor and entrepreneur, he has served on numerous for-profit and non-profit boards, and was founding chairman of the Community Development Venture Capital Alliance, which supports venture investing in economically disadvantaged regions. In 2010, Utne Reader named Woody one of “25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.” Woody's book "Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money" is published by Chelsea Green and now available in paperback.



LINDA WEINTRAUB is an artist, curator, and author of To Life! Eco Art In Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet, In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art, Art on The Edge and Over: Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society, and the Avant-Guardians series. She was the Henry Luce Professor of Emerging Art at Oberlin College and director of the museum at Bard College.

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