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- From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
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- Subject: [permaculture] The Venus Project - Future My Love
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 23:21:43 -0400
The Venus Project - Future My Love
http://www.futuremylove.com/the_venus_project
The Venus Project (website <http://www.thevenusproject.com/>) is a research
centre in Venus, Florida run by Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows: “The
Venus Project offers a comprehensive plan for social reclamation in which
human beings, technology and nature will be able to coexist in a long term,
sustainable state of dynamic equilibrium.”
One of its key aims is to educate people towards a transition to a
*“Resourced-based
Economy”.* The term and meaning of a *Resource-based Economy* was defined
by Jacque Fresco. It is a holistic socio-economic system in which all goods
and services are available without the use of money, credit, barter, or any
other system of debt or servitude. All resources become the common heritage
of all inhabitants, not just a select few. This system is based on the
premise that the Earth is abundant with plentiful resource; our practice of
rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and
counter-productive to our survival.
*ZEITGEIST*
Jacque and The Venus Project are featured in the film *Future By Design*
(2006)
by William Gazecki which represents Jacque as a “modern da Vinci”, and the
Zeitgeist film series (*Zeitgeist Addendum* 2008 and *Zeitgeist Moving
Forward* 2010) by Peter Joseph. This led to The Zeitgeist Movement
(website<http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/>)
founded in 2008, which is now a big global activist movement with over 30
country chapters, dedicated to spreading the word about a Resource-based
Economy. It celebrates an annual ‘Z Day’ which is Jacque Fresco’s birthday,
13 March. In 2011, The Venus Project and The Zeitgeist Movement officially
severed ties, but TZM is still promoting the model of a Resource-based
Economy.
- [permaculture] The Venus Project - Future My Love, Lawrence London, 05/26/2014
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