R. Buckminster Fuller's World Game is a scientific means for discovering the expeditious ways of employing the world's resources to provide a higher standard of living for all humanity. The philosophy behind the game is the exploration of resources to do more with less, or to combine two or more actions to produce a result greater than the sum of…

Every two seconds somewhere in the world a child dies from a preventable disease. Millions lack access to safe drinking water. Smoking, alcoholism, and drug abuse are on the increase in developing nations. In the United States, experts estimate that one out of every ten people, a majority of them women and children, go to bed hungry, and the…

Emphasizing a problem-solving perspective, the document investigates the world food scene. Simply defined, the world food problem is the apparent inability of the world's people to feed themselves adequately and consistently. Intended for use by college level geography instructors as they develop courses on human uses of the environment, the…