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{{Infobox organization
| name = The Venus Project
| image = TheVenusProjectLogo.svg
| size = 200px
| caption = The Venus Project logo
| motto = Beyond Politics, Poverty and War
| type = [[Non-profit Organization]]
| website = [http://www.thevenusproject.com www.thevenusproject.com]
}}

'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates the [[futurist]] visions of the American [[Jacque Fresco]], with the aim of improving society with a global sustainable social design that it calls a "[[resource-based economy]]". The system aims to incorporate [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]].

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida]], where its research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States]].

The Venus Project is a two-part business called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate The Venus Project Store]</ref>{{Better source|date=March 2011}} and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that all nations are fundamentally corrupt<ref>{{cite web |people="[[Jacque Fresco]] |title=Zeitgeist:Addendum |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg |time=0:56:14 |quote="So you see the basis of corruption is in our society. Let me make it clear. All nations then are basically corrupt because they tend to uphold existing institutions. I don't mean to uphold or downgrade all nations, but communism, socialist, fascism, the free enterprise system, and all others sub-cultures are the same. They are all basically corrupt." |accessdate=2001-06-06}}</ref> and that this corruption comes from the use of money.<ref>{{cite web |title=FAQ |publisher=The Venus Project |url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq |location=Point 6.5 |quote=There is tremendous corruption, greed, crime, embezzlement, and more caused by the need for money. |accessdate=2001-06-06}}</ref> Fresco instead advocates what he refers to as a "resource-based economy",<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20090427000456/http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm |archivedate=2009-04-27}}</ref> which is an economy where resources are allocated by a computerized automated system referred to as the Cybernation.<ref>{{cite web |title=FAQ |publisher=The Venus Project |url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq |location=Point 52. |accessdate=2001-06-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=City Systems |url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/technology |publisher=The Venus Project |accessdate=2001-06-06}}</ref>

== Aims ==
# Realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people.
# Transcending the artificial boundaries that currently and arbitrarily separate people.
# Replacing money-based nationalistic economies with a resource-based world economy.
# Assisting in stabilizing the world's population through education and voluntary birth control.
# Reclaiming and restoring the natural environment to the best of our ability.
# Redesigning cities, transportation systems, agricultural industries, and industrial plants so that they are energy-efficient, clean, and able conveniently to serve the needs of all people.
# Gradually outgrowing corporate entities and governments (local, national, or supra-national) as means of social management.
# Sharing and applying new technologies for the benefit of all nations.
# Developing and using clean, renewable energy sources.
# Manufacturing the highest-quality products for the benefit of the world's people.
# Requiring environmental-impact studies prior to construction of any mega-projects.
# Encouraging the widest range of creativity and incentive toward constructive endeavour.
# Outgrowing nationalism, bigotry, and prejudice through education.
# Eliminating elitism—technical or otherwise.
# Arriving at methodologies by careful research rather than random opinions.
# Enhancing communication in schools so that our language is relevant to the physical conditions of the world.
# Providing not only the necessities of life, but also offering challenges that stimulate the mind while emphasizing individuality rather than uniformity.
# Finally, preparing people intellectually and emotionally for the changes and challenges that lie ahead.<ref>{{cite web|title=Aim and proposals|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals|publisher=Venus Project}}</ref>

== Resource-based economy ==
===Sustainable cybernated economy ===
Fresco suggests that in a "resource-based economy", resources would be allocated into the goods and services in consumer demand, based on factors of [[abundance|availability]], [[sustainability]] and technological advancement. The role of money would be phased out; instead, central computers would serve a lineup of goods and services, which citizens could order upon demand. Central computers would serve a variety of goods based on sustainability and the latest technological advances; obsolete, unwanted, or unused goods would be recycled, reduced and/or reused. Resource waste is a burden which the system must eliminate to function efficiently.<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2011-05-29}}</ref>

=== Relation to the market economy ===
A "resource-based economy" would use machines as labor to deliver goods and services from resource mining to the finished product, distribution centers with drive-throughs for each category that consumers collect and courier home; there would be no charge at the point of consumption. It is supposed that the cost is the energy and resource used in the process, and that this would fall onto automated machines to regulate, removing the burden from consumers.

A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy, replacing it with automation based on the assumption that machines do not profit and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref name="The Venus Project">{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population.{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government.<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref>

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was no, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the U.S. to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately, this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

=== Critical theory of the market economy ===
'''According to Jacque Fresco (unless otherwise stated)'''<br />

The advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco imagines a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref>

Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
| title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
| publisher= thevenusproject.com
| accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref> And human error will not be left to chance, but compensated by cybernated structures, these will manage the risk to minimize or eliminate the opportunities that allow damage to the functioning of society. Offenders will not be killed, instead they will be re-educated, provided with the pieces of information for them to be altruistic, the integrity of a peaceful sustainable society will hold priority. Predatory drives are bred within the individual, in a monetary system, drives as these are conditioned by culture, and combined with a lack (scarcity), these predators will take offensive action against the better-off or helpless whatever the power differentials are; resulting in social consequences like poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war, when the root cause is removed (the flow of money) these troubles will vanish.<ref>{{cite web|title=Corrupting Factors, Social Responsibility|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSi1SCqa1YY&feature=channel_video_title}}</ref>

His ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref>

=== Transition proposals ===
The proposed way to transition to a resource based economy is as follows:<ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* Phase One — build a research centre ✔
* Phase Two — produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally
* Phase Three — construct an experimental research city (test prototype) including a theme park to show people how the future can be.

The Venus project claims that all funds raised go back to developing the project, which provide a viable alternative to the market system, for when the market economy falls their solution will provide. As mentioned by Jacque and Roxanne, it is imperative that a motion picture be made before Jacque dies, so that the vision will be readily and easily accessible and apprehensible into the far future. This would continue the cause into building a research city founded on principles laid out by Jacque, establish through years research, experience and experiment.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Donations and how they are used|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWjNg7i2zNk&feature=channel_video_title}}</ref>

== Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr{{dead link|date=November 2011}} The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released. The movement functioned as the activist arm of the Venus Project. However, in April 2011, the Venus Project formally disassociated itself from the movement as it no longer felt represented by the direction the movement was heading in.<ref>{{cite web|title=TVP / TZM Split on V-Radio|url=http://tobtr.com/s/1802513}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Garden city movement]]
* [[Technocracy movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.thevenusproject.com The Venus Project]
* [http://www.thepangea.org/ ''The Pangea — Greece Activism'']
* [http://www.futuragora.pt/ ''FUTURAGORA — Portugal Activism'']
* [http://www.civilisation2.org/ ''Civilisation 2.0 — France Activism'']
* [http://www.fbdthemovie.com/order.html ''Future by Design DVD, Directed by William Gazecki'']

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