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{{Short description|American nonprofit organization}}
{{other uses|Venus Project (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = The Venus Project
| image = Research centre of The Venus Project.jpg
| caption = Research centre of The Venus Project, [[Venus, Florida]], United States
| logo = The Venus Project wordmark.svg
| type = [[Non-profit organization|Not-for-profit]]
| tax_id =
| founded_date = {{start date and age|1985|4|6}}
| founder = [[Jacque Fresco]]
| location = [[Venus, Florida]]
| origins =
| key_people = Roxanne Meadows
| website = https://www.thevenusproject.com/
}}
The '''Venus Project''' is a [[501(c) organization|501(c) nonprofit organization]] founded by [[architect]] and social engineer [[Jacque Fresco]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Venus project - redesigning the future |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23799590 |work=BBC News |date=25 August 2013}}</ref> Fresco, along with his partner Roxanne Meadows, founded this project with a [[socioeconomic]] model to develop a resource-based economy for human beings utilizing technology.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last1=Sandomir |first1=Richard |title=Jacque Fresco, Futurist Who Envisioned a Society Without Money, Dies at 101 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/us/jacque-fresco-futurist-who-envisioned-a-society-without-money-dies-at-101.html |work=The New York Times |date=25 May 2017}}</ref>
==History==
Before the Venus Project Fresco worked on the ''Project Americana'' from 1955 to 1959. That project was mainly about environmental, traffic, and floodgate concerns.<ref name=":1">{{cite news|title=Floating Cities and Resource-Based Economies |url=https://news.co.cr/floating-cities-and-resource-based-economies/2954/ |newspaper=[[The Costa Rica Star]] |date=27 February 2012 |last=Lopez |first=Jaime |access-date=September 19, 2023}}</ref><ref name=":0" />
In 1970, Fresco formed an organization, Sociocybereneering Inc, based on the idea of combining [[technology]] and [[energy conservation]] strategies. Later, Fresco and his partner Roxanne Meadows purchased {{cvt|21|acre}} of farmland in [[Venus, Florida]], an unincorporated community in southeastern [[Highlands County, Florida]] in order to conduct different types of research about their futuristic architectural design and city models.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{cite news|title=Eliminating Money, Taxes, and Ownership Will Bring Forth Technoutopia |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/53dkez/eliminating-money-taxes-and-ownership-will-bring-forth-technoutopia |work=Vice |last=Istvan |first=Zoltan |date=October 13, 2016 |access-date=September 19, 2023}}</ref> Fresco and Meadows began creating buildings and other infrastructure to actualize their idea of [[Efficient energy use|energy-efficient]] cities. According to ''[[The New York Times]]'', initially, they supported the project by selling books and lecture videos.
In 1980, Fresco, established a research center to experiment on resource-based economy and later named it "The Venus Project" after the town of Venus, Florida.<ref>{{cite news |title=NBC2 explores The Venus Project: 'What the future could be like' |url=https://nbc-2.com/nbc-2-wbbh/2019/12/19/nbc2-explores-the-venus-project-what-the-future-could-be-like/ |work=NBC2 News |date=19 December 2019 |access-date=8 May 2022 |archive-date=4 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004173945/https://nbc-2.com/nbc-2-wbbh/2019/12/19/nbc2-explores-the-venus-project-what-the-future-could-be-like/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Resource Based Economy 2019 u936">{{cite web|title=The Venus Project |website=Resource Based Economy |date=1 Apr 2019 |url=https://www.resourcebasedeconomy.org/the-venus-project/ |access-date=7 Jul 2023}}</ref>
The project was prominently featured in [[Peter Joseph]]'s 2009 film [[Zeitgeist (film series)|''Zeitgeist: Addendum'']]. Fresco and Joseph parted ways in 2011.<ref name=o3>{{cite news|last=Gore |first=Jeff|url=https://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/the-view-from-venus/Content?oid=2248863|title=The view from Venus {{!}} Jacque Fresco designed a society without politics, poverty and war. Will it ever leave the drawing board?|newspaper=Orlando Weekly|date=October 12, 2011|access-date=September 17, 2015}}</ref>
In 2010, Fresco and Meadows traveled to 20 countries to present the Venus Project.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Venus Project |url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/index.php |date=24 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100424073541/http://www.thevenusproject.com/index.php |archive-date=24 April 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
In June 2012, a Swedish documentary and fiction director, Maja Borg screened her film, ''Future My Love'', at the Edinburgh International Film Festival featuring the work of Fresco and Meadows.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Adams |first1=Mark |title=Future My Love |url=https://www.screendaily.com/future-my-love/5043649.article |work=Screen |date=June 22, 2012 |access-date=September 19, 2023}}</ref>
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
* [https://www.thevenusproject.com/ Official website]
[[Category:Non-profit organizations based in Florida]]
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