The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) announced the launch of the first annual Buckminster Fuller Challenge on July 12, the 112th anniversary of Fuller’s birth. The Challenge will award a single $100,000 prize annually to support “the development and implementation of a solution with significant potential to solve the world's most pressing problems in the shortest possible time while enhancing the Earth's ecological integrity.” Entries will be accepted beginning September 4 and until October 30. The first prize will be conferred in June 2008, coinciding with the opening of the first major retrospective exhibition of Fuller's work in the U.S. at New York City’s Whitney Museum of American Art. Entry forms will be available electronically on September 4. To receive an entry form announcement or for more information, visit the challenge’s Web site.