The following articles and papers provide context and background to the conceptual underpinnings of the Design Science Lab.

Regenerative Design: Going Beyond Sustainability (92 KB)
Buckminster Fuller: Leadership Principles (1.3 MB)
Intro to Design Science (28 KB)
Design Science Primer (4.2 MB)
Planning Diseases/Planetary Dis-Eases (56 KB
Buckminster Fuller and the Game of the World (96 KB)
Whole Systems Design (Autodesk) (550 KB)
Light Weighting (Autodesk) (272 KB)

By Buckminster Fuller:
Humanity's Critical Path (1.1 MB)
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (376 KB)
Reforming the Environment (24 KB)

The following short movies provide context and background for the Design Science Lab.

BigPictureSmallWorld
The World in 10 Seconds
Leadership 101
Eliminating Hunger
Half Empty/Half Full
Increasing Humanity

Report on the Green Global Economy:

Global Green New Deal UNEP (776KB)

Sample of sites or perspectives related to Global Green Economy:

UNEP Global Green Economy

Paul Hawken
http://www.charityfocus.org/blog/view.php?id=2077

Hazel Henderson
http://www.ethicalmarkets.com/?p=1275

Thomas Friedman
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/opinion/15friedman.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/opinion/01friedman.html?_r=2&th&emc=th

Food Systems—multimedia
http://www.iied.org/natural-resources/key-issues/food-and-agriculture/multimedia-publication-towards-food-sovereignty-reclaiming-autonomous-food-sys

Links to almost everything UN:
UN Agencies—Links to

J. K. Rowling
Harvard Commencement Address

Steve Jobs
Stanford Commencement Address

Bono
University of Pennsylvania Commencement