Peter King, 51, lives off the grid in a geodesic dome and has several tiny houses on his property.

NPR: Do-It-Yourself Downsize: How To Build A Tiny House

Another of our favorite new projects is this giant open-air geodesic dome in Denmark that was modeled after a C240 molecule.

ENGADGET: Inhabitat's Week in Green: stair-climbing vacuum cleaner, carbon dioxide diapers and a real 3D-printed face

Guests can sleep in mud houses and learn about permaculture, sustainable building and geodesic domes on a four-week to four-month English-language "Green Apprenticeship".

BBC: Kick back on a kibbutz

For example, you may be blown away by the structure of something, like a soccer ball or a geodesic dome, with its hexagonal shapes.

WSJ: GZA on 'Dark Matter' Album - Interview: Rapper Finds Muse in the Stars

Everyone and every business will be in geodesic domes on stilts that are impervious to water so that from the air the new part of town will look like bubbles.

CNN: Your e-mails:?'City of the future'

Four consecutive Sundays have been dedicated to d.j.s playing the music of Kraftwerk over a surround-sound system set up in a geodesic dome in the courtyard of MOMA PS1, in Queens.

NEWYORKER: Sound Machine

His handwritten field notes show street by street calculations in "chain lengths, " a painstaking process that used metal chains and heavy brass compasses, theodolytes and geodesic transits to reconcile the difference between true north and magnetic north readings.

WSJ: The Greatest Grid | Museum of the City of New York | Crosshatching a Miracle | By Ada Louise Huxtable

The suburbs would be on the someday list -- the Detroit Zoo and its newly born river otters, the glassblowers and re-enactors at Greenfield Village and Buckminster Fuller's geodesic Dymaxion House at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS