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Josh Arnow’s deep interest in sustainability goes back 32 years. It was first sparked when he saw Buckminster Fuller speak in 1976.  Often considered a 20th century Leonardo, Fuller’s prolific life of exploration, discovery, invention and teaching was driven by his intention “to make the world work for 100% of humanity”. Josh’s summer internship in Fuller’s office inspired him to research the field of solar energy and at the age of 21 he built and sold one of Westchester County’s first all passive solar homes. Soon after, he joined the family business where he worked in real estate development for the next two decades. For the last 10 years he has helped build and oversee a variety of financial investment portfolios while pursuing his real passion; innovative research, ventures and not for profit initiatives that advance humanity’s transition to sustainability. From 1985 to 2007, Josh served on the Board of the Buckminster Fuller Institute [1] and as its president from 1999 to 2005. In 2005, he joined the board of directors of Green Map [2] which is developing a cutting edge social mapping web site designed to help connect the worldwide green living, development and ecotourism movements. The same year he joined the Board of the Worldlink Foundation [3] which produces public engagement campaigns that encourage individuals to actively participate in creating a sustainable future. This coming spring Worldlink will release a PBS special called Nourish which explores the abundant possibilities to create sustainable food systems. In 2006, Josh conceived and managed a joint project between The Threshold Foundation and The Harvard Center for Health and the Global Environment [4] to produce an internet movie about the global loss of biodiversity. It has been downloaded over 6000 times per month (on average) for the last 19 months. (You can see it at daversitycode.com [5].) In 2007, he played a leading role with SavingSpecies.org [6] to preserve a 346 acre parcel of degraded coastal Atlantic rainforest that scientists determined was one of the most important conservation priorities in the Americas due to its potential to create a biotic corridor and save a large number of species at risk of extinction. Josh is currently devoting much of his time collaborating on two major initiatives: the Buckminster Fuller Challenge; A $100,000 annual prize program (entering its second year) which supports the development and implementation of strategies with significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems; and the  Sustainability Laboratory [7] whose purpose is  to spearhead the development, demonstration and world-wide diffusion of breakthrough sustainability practices. The first project of the Lab is currently underway. It is a model Bedouin, community-based enterprise in the Israeli Negev.