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Line 1: {{Short description\|American nonprofit organization}} ~~{{Stub}}{{Primary sources\|date=April 2017}}~~ {{other uses\|Venus Project (disambiguation)}} '''The Venus Project''' is a plan to radical redesign our society. The approach and organization was founded by [[Jacque Fresco]]. The idea is to create an 'organic city', see the planet as a the property of all human beings and creating a resource based economy. {{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> ~~== Background ==~~ [[Jacque Fresco]] saw that the [[Great Depression]] produced a large unemployment rate and suffering. Not because the products of the jobs weren't necessary, but because of the monetarian system. His argument is that money is limiting our capability. He claims that suffering, violence, hunger and poverty is unnecessary, artificial and bad for the society.<ref>{{Cite news\|url = https://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project/\|title = About {{!}} The Venus Project\|work = The Venus Project\|access-date = 2017-04-14\|language = en-US}}</ref> == ~~Approach~~ 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. ~~=== Science ===~~ 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> His aim is to make science the main resource i society. It shall be used to make the life better for everyone.<ref>{{Cite news\|url = https://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project/aims-and-proposals/\|title = Aims and Proposals {{!}} The Venus Project\|work = The Venus Project\|access-date = 2017-04-14\|language = en-US}}</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> ~~=== Ressource based economy ===~~ His proposal is to create a resource based economy. An economy where humanity see which resources we have and share it equally. He claims that money is limiting our ability, creating artificial scarcity.<ref>{{Cite news\|url = https://www.thevenusproject.com/resource-based-economy/\|title = Resource Based Economy {{!}} The Venus Project\|work = The Venus Project\|access-date = 2017-04-14\|language = en-US}}</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> ~~=== Architecture ===~~ His approach is to build an organic city. A self-sufficient city, with common buildings in the middle, research centers in the next layer, common areas like parks, residential buildings and food production buildings in the last circles. He argues that you only have to design a few of the layers and reproduce the layer.<ref>{{Cite news\|url = https://www.thevenusproject.com/learn-more/documentaries/\|title = Watch our Documentaries {{!}} The Venus Project\|work = The Venus Project\|access-date = 2017-04-14\|language = en-US}}</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> ~~== See also ==~~ * [[Jacque Fresco]] * [[Resource-based economy]] == ~~Sources~~ References== {{Reflist~~\|40em~~}} ~~{{Portalbar\|Economics\|Politics\|Society\|5 = Architecture}}~~ ==External links== * [https://www.thevenusproject.com/ Official website] [[Category:Non-profit organizations based in Florida]]