John Todd presenting his work Comprehensive Design for a Carbon Neutral World: The Challenge of Appalachia at the 2008 Challenge conferring ceremony.

BFI Board member Joe Clinton and artist Tom Shannon with the OmniOculi prize sculpture.

2008 Challenge juror Hunter Lovins, 2008 winner John Todd, Nancy Jack Todd, alternative energy expert Greg Watson, BFI Board Chair Allegra Fuller Snyder, and inventor Jay Baldwin at the 2008 Challenge conferring ceremony

John Todd, Greg Watson, Allegra Fuller Snyder, and Jay Baldwin admire the OmniOculi prize sculpture.

The Buckminster Fuller Challenge prize sculpture created by artist Tom Shannon in collaboration with BFI Board member Joe Clinton.

John Todd is conferred the 2008 Buckminster Fuller Challenge prize by BFI President Neal Katz, Board Chair Allegra Fuller Snyder, and Board member Joe Clinton.

The crowd, including Fuller's granddaughter Alexandra May, Dr. Michael Ben-Eli, actress Marian Seldes, and many others, applauds John Todd at the 2008 Buckminster Fuller Challenge conferring ceremony.

2008 Buckminster Fuller Challenge juror Hunter Lovins introduces John Todd.

BFI Executive Director Elizabeth Thompson.