[Mpls] Do More with Less Until We Can Do Everything With Nothing

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Albert Einstein called R Buckminster Fuller the greatest  genius he had ever 
met. Fuller's main philosophy and goal was to make every  human a success and 
to bring maximum wealth to every human by using his  technique that he called 
ephemerlization or doing the most with the least amount  of resources and 
energy or in other words maximizing efficiency. His geodesic  dome was a 
quintessential embodiment of that principle. A geodesic  dome is a structure with a 
maximum amount of structural  integrity that uses a minimum amount of material to 
enclose  space. 
 
Fuller was not only a great inventor, architect, philosopher  and design 
scientist he was a great visionary and advocate of using renewable  energy 
technology or what he called "free energy technology...technology that  uses the 
inexhaustible energy of the sun, wind and tides. If our country was not  
controlled by industries like the coal and oil industries and if we would have  taken 
his advice seriously back in the sixties, all of us would have greater  wealth 
and health today. Global warming and global pollution are two crises too  
serious to ignore. When we should be scrambling to build renewable energy  
technology and put in place a serious conservation policy our federal  government, 
with its latest energy bill, has done the worse thing it could do by  giving 
billions of dollars to the oil, coal and nuclear industries and small  token 
amounts of money to develop renewable energy. Our state government  likewise has 
done nothing. Minneapolis could and should show the world what can  be done. We 
can build solar arrays on top of parking ramps and on the south  facing sound 
barriers of our freeways using state and federal funds and generate  
thousands of kilowatts of electricity for our city. This would not only be a  great 
investment and pay for itself many times over in the coming years, it  would 
create jobs, it would reduce the amount of mercury we pour into our air  and 
water, it would prevent the flow of billions of dollars out of our city and  state 
and it would reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses that we produce. It  does 
not require wars to produce solar and wind energy and it could reduce our  
dependence on foreign oil. It would reduce our record breaking trade deficits as 
 well. Its simply a win, win, win, win proposition and we can longer delay.  
These are just a few of the things our city must do. Visit my web  site.

 
Sincerely,  Don Johnson, Candidate for Mayor, 3808 Grand Ave So. Minneapolis, 
MN 55409 (612)  824 1111 _www.DonJohnsonMayor.org_ 
(http://www.donjohnsonmayor.org/)