The first two geodesic homes will be complete this summer in a new community in the N.C. mountains -- with views of Mount Mitchell.
Thirty to 50 domes will sit on lots of 2 to 5 acres, said Michael Busick, founder of American Ingenuity, a Florida dome manufacturer. "We have enough land for that many," he said. "We don't have to hit any number. They're not going to be bunched up close."
ASHEVILLE — The visionary thinker Buckminster Fuller built his first geodesic domes at Black Mountain College more than 50 years ago, but others are using his ideas to build a new, more efficient future in Asheville.
“There is no energy shortage. There is no energy crisis. There is only a crisis of ignorance,” Mark Hanf quoted Fuller.
THE ESALEN INSTITUTE on California's rugged Big Sur coast first entered my consciousness as a teenager in the psychedelic '60s. There it flitted for 30-odd years, an enigmatic place cloaked in "alternative" jargon, secretive smiles and suggestions I couldn't quite process.
What I heard about Esalen was vague and esoteric, not easily articulated. Over the years, the people I met who'd actually been here -- taken a workshop, soaked in the famous mineral baths -- talked about it with a kind of dreamy reverence that piqued my curiosity even more.
Not until middle age did I finally create an opportunity to peek beneath the veil.
Now I'm the smitten one.
But let's back up.
