The Venus Project-Scarcity, Justice, Transition, Resource Based Economy

{EAV_BLOG_VER:6297a0b4420eb5b9} A friend of mine brought up the price of gold the other day. People have been selling and buying gold like it was the California gold rush. I thought about it for a few minutes and I told her that I did not understand why people put so much worth into gold. It isn't a metal that is really used for anything except decorative purposes. You can't eat it or drink it. You can't make blankets or brush your teeth with it. She said that people would trade it for food. I was quiet for a moment again and asked her why someone who had food would trade it for gold. Wouldn't they trade it for blankets, clean water, shelter, or clothes? Wouldn't the people with the blankets, clean water, shelter or clothes trade for food? What would you do with gold? That's what I would do and I think I have some common sense. If I can't work on my car and the man down the street needed his clothes mended and we both were able to perform these tasks, wouldn't that make more sense than giving him my gold earrings (if I had any)? In the end, what does gold really offer?

Scarcity. Bigotry. Inequality. What do these values promote? How can we change these values? Who makes the wealthy rich? Why should they owe society anything? How does our economy create fairness and equality?How does our economy promote the health of our environment and the people who dwell on it? Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows answer these questions in the next of our videos.

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The Venus Project-Changing Values, Self-Appointed Guardians, Democratic System

Occupy Wall Street has been going on for a few weeks now. Protests in Europe have been going on for much longer than that. The world is coming together for the same reason. Anger. Anger at the corporations that have laid off their workers to increase their profits. Anger at the banks. Anger at the 1% who control what is happening to the 99%. Anger at rising prices, the dismantling of education, the high unemployment of college graduates and youth. Righteous anger! Jacque Fresco talks about what happens when you go against the social "norm". This is very interesting since he predicted what is happening before it happened.

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The Venus Project-Resource Based Economy

I have grown up most of my life thinking (like all good Americans) that capitalism was the only way that society could exist. Without money, the world would come crashing down, the sun would burn out, the stars would fall from the sky, the oceans would dry up. But would it? For most people, no. Their lives would be better. Not only their lives but the lives of each succeeding generation.In this video, Jacque Fresco explains a resource-based economy clearly.

The term and meaning of a Resource-Based Economy was originated by Jacque Fresco. It is a holistic social and economic system in which all goods and services are available without the use of money, credits, barter or any other system of debt or servitude. All resources become the common heritage of all of the inhabitants, not just a select few. The premise upon which this system is based is that the Earth is abundant with plentiful resource; our practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter productive to our survival.

Modern society has access to highly advanced technology and can make available food, clothing, housing and medical care; update our educational system; and develop a limitless supply of renewable, non-contaminating energy. By supplying an efficiently designed economy, everyone can enjoy a very high standard of living with all of the amenities of a high technological society.

A resource-based economy would utilize existing resources from the land and sea, physical equipment, industrial plants, etc. to enhance the lives of the total population. In an economy based on resources rather than money, we could easily produce all of the necessities of life and provide a high standard of living for all.

The Venus Project-Energy

We have access to renewable sources of energy. Geothermal, tidal, solar, and wind to name the obvious. I ask myself often why we don't use these sources. What sense does it make to keep destroying Earth for energy sources that are dirty, polluting and expensive? Money and greed. I read that money was the factor for keeping us from change. The initial investment would cost the people too much. Maybe it is because there wouldn't be a way to drive prices up and make huge profits when the wind, tide and sun are abundant.
Here is a video on energy explained by Jacque Fresco.

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The Venus Project-Houses

Houses. Our home, haven, a little slice of heaven. Here is a video where Jacque Fresco describes homes that have been designed intelligently.

The Venus Project recommends that the present state and aims of architecture be redefined to fit the evolving needs of individuals in this new, emergent culture. The architecture and individual dwellings of future cities will evolve on an entirely different basis from today's houses. With the intelligent application of humane technologies, we will be able to provide and allow for a wide array of unique individual homes. Their structural elements will be flexible and coherently arranged to best serve individual preference. These pre-fabricated, modular homes, embodying a high degree of flexibility inconceivable in times past, could be built anyplace one might imagine, amidst forests, atop mountains, or on remote islands. All of these dwellings can be designed as self-contained residences with their own thermal generators and heat concentrators. Photovoltaic arrays would be built into the skin of the building and into the windows themselves. "Thermopanes" would be used to tint out the bright sunlight by variable patterns of shading. All these features could be selected by the occupant to supply more than enough of the energy required to operate the entire household. Homes could be prefabricated of a new type of pre-stressed, reinforced concrete with a flexible ceramic external coating that would be relatively maintenance free, fireproof, and impervious to the weather. Their thin shell construction can be mass-produced in a matter of hours. With this type of construction, there would be minimal damage from earthquakes and hurricanes.

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