{"id":312,"date":"2010-12-10T16:37:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T15:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lornemitchell.com\/blog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2010-12-10T17:02:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T16:02:09","slug":"we-all-live-on-one-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"We All Live on (Almost) One Island!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst researching the great Buckminster Fuller, I came across a different way of looking at the world &#8211; which is called the Fuller (or Dymaxion) Map.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Dymaxion Map\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Dymaxion_map_unfolded.png\"><img data-attachment-id=\"315\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?attachment_id=315\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Dymaxion_map_unfolded.png?fit=744%2C379\" data-orig-size=\"744,379\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Dymaxion_map_unfolded\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Dymaxion_map_unfolded.png?fit=300%2C152\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Dymaxion_map_unfolded.png?fit=525%2C267\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-315\" title=\"Dymaxion_map_unfolded\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Dymaxion_map_unfolded.png?resize=525%2C268\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Dymaxion_map_unfolded.png?w=744 744w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Dymaxion_map_unfolded.png?resize=300%2C152 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For all of the separation and differences we tend to create in our world, it is sometimes encouraging for us to look at the world through a unifying lens to realise that not only do we live on one planet &#8211; but that also we all live on (almost) one island!\u00a0 Makes you think&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More on this &#8211; as well as other pictures at:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dymaxion_map\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dymaxion_map<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst researching the great Buckminster Fuller, I came across a different way of looking at the world &#8211; which is called the Fuller (or Dymaxion) Map. For all of the separation and differences we tend to create in our world, it is sometimes encouraging for us to look at the world through a unifying lens &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=312\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We All Live on (Almost) One Island!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[35,42,45,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DQGK-52","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1347,"url":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=1347","url_meta":{"origin":312,"position":0},"title":"At the end of the break: Remember &#8211; and this is very important &#8230;&#8230;","author":"Lorne Mitchell","date":"02\/05\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"It is over six months since my last post. \u00a0Much has happened in my life - as I presume it has to those who are reading this. \u00a0I had not intended to have such a long break. \u00a0I had not intended to have a break at all. \u00a0The end of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Ideas&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Ideas","link":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?cat=42"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sydney_banks-226x300.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":460,"url":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=460","url_meta":{"origin":312,"position":1},"title":"Where Should we Put the Fibre?","author":"Lorne Mitchell","date":"17\/03\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I was doodling the other day and came up with this ABC of Fibre-to-the-Alphabet: Fibre to the Antenna Fibre to the Business, Basement Fibre to the Cabinet \/ Community \/ Church \/ Carpark \/ Community Hub Fibre to the Device (what happened to LightPeak?) 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