The Venus Project Design (TVPDesign) is a volunteer network created to support and assist The Venus Project in current and future projects.
Founded by Andrew Buxton & Julita Wielgat, our primary objective is the continued development of a global database of technical & scientific professionals to enable us to be able to connect teams of such professionals anywhere in the world instantly should a country decide to begin development of The Venus Project. Our secondary objective is to manage the Human Resourcing of the Venus Project's Technical Design / Architectural / CAD and CG Projects including the CGI work for the future Venus Project Motion Picture and other TVP related media projects utilizing a worldwide network of volunteer professionals and talented hobbyists, and the human resourcing and technical designs of the future exhibition centre and related structures etc.
If you are not an Architect / Engineer / Scientist / Technician / CAD or CG Professional/Hobbyist you can still be a great help to the goals of this project, but more about that later. This global design team will consist of construction and design specialists from all over the world united in the common goals of the development of the first resource based economy (RBE) cities, an end to the monetary system and the inherant problems associated with it for the good of all of humankind not just the financial elite.
Our current active projects are:
- CGI Production for The Venus Project's future media projects
- Lectures on The Venus Project & The Zeitgeist Movement and associated subjects.
Projects in planning:
- The Venus Project Exhibitions
Future Projects (Funding Dependant)
- Management and Production of CAD drawings for the TVP Pilot City (All Disciplines)
- CAD Coordination on all future design related projects for The Venus Project.
Andrew Buxton & Julita Wielgat
The Venus Project Design
(All Designs are by Jacque Fresco, Physical Models by Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows (Founders of the Venus Project - http://www.thevenusproject.com), 3D Models by TVPDesign / TVPD Volunteers / Doug Drexler
What is the Venus Project?
(Source) www.thevenusproject.com (Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows) www.thezeitgeistmovement.com (Peter Joseph)
The Venus Project is an organisation that proposes a feasible plan of action for social change, one that works towards a peaceful and sustainable global civilisation. It outlines an alternative to strive toward where human rights are no longer paper proclamations but a way of life.
When one considers the enormity of the challenges facing society today, we can safely conclude that the time is long overdue for us to re-examine our values, and to reflect upon and evaluate some of the underlying issues and assumptions we have as a society. This self-analysis calls into question the very nature of what it means to be human, what it means to be a member of a "civilization," and what choices we can make today to ensure a prosperous future for all the world's people.
At present we are left with very few alternatives. The answers of yesterday are no longer relevant. Either we continue as we have been with our outmoded social customs and habbits of thought, in which case our future will be threatened, or we can apply a more appropriate set of values that are relevant to an emerging society. Experience tells us that human behavior can be modified, either toward constructive or destructive activity. This is what The Venus Project is all about - directing our technology and resources toward the positive, for the maximum benefit of people and planet and seeking out new ways of thinking and living that emphasize and celebrate the vast potential of the human spirit. We have the tools at hand to design - and build - a future that is worthy of the human potential. The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture. What follows is not an attempt to predict what will be done - only what could be done. The responsibility for oue future is in our hands, and depends on the decisions that we make today. The greatest resource that is available today is our own ingenuity.
While social reformers and think tanks formulate strategies that treat only superficial symptoms, without touching the basic social operation, The Venus Project approaches these problems somewhat differently. We cannot eliminate these problems within the framework of the present political and monetary establishment. It would take too many years to accomplish any significant change. Most likely they would be watered down and thinned out to such an extent that the changes would be indistinguishable.
The Venus Project advocates an alternative vision for a sustainable new world civilization unlike any social system that has gone before. Although this description is highly condensed, it is based upon years of study and experimental research by many, many people from many scientific disciplines.
The Venus Project proposes a fresh approach--one that is dedicated to human and environmental concerns. It is an attainable vision of a bright and better future, one that is appropriate to the times in which we live, and both practical and feasible for a positive future for all of the world's people.
The Venus Project calls for a straightforward approach to the redesign of society, in which the age-old inadequacies of war, poverty, hunger, debt, environmental degradation and unnecessary human suffering are viewed not only as avoidable, but totally unacceptable.
One of the basic premises of The Venus Project is that we work towards having all of the Earth's resources as the common heritage of all of the world's people. Anything less will simply result in a continuation of the same catalog of problems inherant in the present system.
Throughout history, change has been slow. Successive groups of incompetent leaders have replaced those that preceded them, but the underlying social and economic problems remain because the basic value systems have gone unaltered. The problems we are faced with today cannot be solved politically or financially because they are highly technical in nature. There may not even be enough money available to pay for the required changes, but there are more than enough resources. This is why The Venus Project advocates the transition from a monetary-based society to the eventual realization of a resource-based global economy.
We realize to make the transition from our present culture, which is politically incompetent, scarcity-oriented and obsolete, to this new, more humane society will require a quantum leap in both thought and action.
Understanding the Monetary System
The money-based system evolved centuries ago. All of the world's economic systems - socialism, communism, fascism, and even the vaunted free enterprise system - perpetuate social stratification, elitism, nationalism, and racism, primarily based on economic disparity. As long as a social system uses money or barter, people and nations will seek to maintain the economic competitive edge with total disregard for those affected by their greed and lust for power and control, and if they cannot do so by means of commerce they will by military intervention. We still utilize these same outmoded methods as can be seen currently across the middle east.
Have you ever wondered why in a world so rich in resources, are there people dying in their millions in second and third world countries through war and starvation? The financial and corporate elite would rather keep these nations in debt to the tune of billions of pounds than allow them the chance of developing their own societies to a healthy level.
At present these nations need to borrow money to produce goods to sell to other nations in order to raise the money to pay back the banks at interest whilst their people starve and die. Many researchers have come to the conclusion with which I agree, that this is a deliberate policy to destroy the poorer nations through famine, disease and manipulated war in order to take total control of their lands which are often rich in mineral wealth. The penalty for not being able to pay debts is the loss of property and land, whether through an inability to pay one's mortgage or an inability to pay one's national debt.
In reality, very few people are almost entirely responsible for the vast majority of negativity and suffering in the world. It is an ingenious system which has us all at its mercy. The great god 'Banking', together with its spin off deities of 'Economic Growth' and 'Gross Domestic Product', has seen to it that the majority of the world's nations are drowning in an ocean of debt whilst the minority elite are floating on staggering amounts of wealth.
Whilst the world is controlled by the economics of banks and whilst survival depends upon lending money at interest, there will always be rulers and the ruled and a need for war. This is because there will always be vastly more money in circulation than there is actual wealth to back it up; and when the borrowers run out of money to pay their lenders they have merely two choices: to become enslaved to their debtors or to conquer them. It is for this reason that the bankers must maintain their position of ownership over the military, law, oil, pharmaceuticals, media and education etc..
In order to maintain this position of absolute power, the world's borrowers must be kept in ignorance of the truth of the situation which is that they are little more than slaves to their lenders. True history, which is the story of billions of individuals, including their manipulation, must not be taught. Indeed, it most certainly is not. The history books are full of kings and queens, 'goodies' and 'badies', wars and conquered nations, when they should more accurately be described as the chronicles of greed and wealth. For the System to survive it must also suppress true science and true history.
For most of us the question of where does money come from, brings to mind a picture of the government instructing the mint to print notes and pour liquid metal into presses, to be stamped and sent out as bank notes and coins to the banks. While this is partially true, the majority of the money in the world is not created this way. It is created in huge amounts day by day by private corporations we call banks. Most of us believe that banks loan out the bank notes & coins from the stockpile of money, silver & gold bullion in the banks vault's which has been invested by depositors as this is often what we are shown in blockbuster movies about bank heist's etc. this is in fact not the truth at all..
Banks create the money the money they loan, not from the earnings of the bank, nor from the money deposited but directly from the borrowers promise to agree to repay the loan. The borrowers signature on the loan agreement is a legally binding contract between the individual and the bank that the lender will repay the loan + interest before a given date, more often than not in monthly instalments, or lose the business, the house, The car or whatever assets were placed as collateral on the loan at the time of the agreement. This is a huge commitment for the borrower, on the other hand what commitment is required by the bank? The answer is none, what the banks do is enter the amount of the agreed loan onto your account file on the banks computer system. That's it!
As you have seen, our current monetary system is not capable of providing a high standard of living for everyone, nor can it ensure the protection of the environment because the major motive is profit. Strategies such as downsizing and toxic dumping increase the profit margin. With the advent of automation, cybernation, artificial intelligence and out sourcing, there will be an ever-increasing replacement of people by machines. As a result, fewer people will be able to purchase goods and services even though our capability to produce an abundance will continue to exist.
Our present, outmoded political and economic systems are unable to apply the real benefits of today's innovative technology to achieve the greatest good for all people, and to overcome the inequities imposed upon so many. Our technology is racing forward yet our social designs have remained relatively static. In other words cultural change has not kept pace with technological change. We now have the means to produce goods and services in abundance for everyone.
Unfortunately, today science and technology have been diverted from achieving the greatest good for reasons of self-interest and monetary gain through planned obsolescence sometimes referred to as the conscious withdrawal of efficiency. For example, the U. S. Department of Agriculture, whose function is presumed to be conducting research into ways of achieving higher crop yields per acre, actually pays farmers not to produce at full-capacity. The monetary system tends to hold back the application of these methods that we know would best serve the interests of people and the environment.
In a monetary system purchasing power is not related to our capacity to produce goods and services. For example, during a depression, there are computers and DVD's on store shelves and automobiles in car lots, but most people do not have the purchasing power to buy them. The earth is still the same place; it is just the rules of the game that are obsolete and create strife, deprivation and unnecessary human suffering.
A monetary system developed years ago as a device to control human behavior in an environment with limited resources. Today money is used to regulate the economy not for the benefit of the general populace, but for those who control the financial wealth of nations.
"I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people." ~Reginald McKenna, Chairman of Midland Bank, 1918
I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire, ...The man that controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire. And I control the money supply. ~Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1815
"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand ever invented. Banking was conceived in Iniquity and born in sin. Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of a pen they will make enough money to buy it back again... Take this great power away from them and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for then this world would be a better and happier world to live in. But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit." ~Sir Josiah Stamp, Director - Bank of England 1928-1941, (The 2nd richest man in England at the time)
The Monetary System is Usury, It is a method of control and it is, has and always will be subject to greed and abuse, and contrary to pupular belief, For hundreds of years our ancestors have been a slave to it, however it doesnt mean future generations must.
We have become consumers at the expense of our humanity and our connection with nature..
So what is a Resource Based Economy?
All social systems, regardless of political philosophy, religious beliefs, or social customs, ultimately depend upon natural resources, i.e. clean air and water, arable land and the necessary technology and personnel to maintain a high standard of living.
Simply stated, a resource-based economy utilizes existing resources rather than money and provides an equitable method of distributing these resources in the most efficient manner for the entire population. It is a system in which all goods and services are available without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.
Earth is abundant with plentiful resources; today our practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter productive to our survival. Modern society has access to highly advanced technologies and can make available food, clothing, housing, medical care, a relevant educational system, and develop a limitless supply of renewable, non-contaminating energy such as geothermal, solar, wind, tidal, etc. It is now possible to have everyone enjoy a very high standard of living with all of the amenities that a prosperous civilization can provide. This can be accomplished through the intelligent and humane application of science and technology.
To better understand the meaning of a resource-based economy consider this: if all the money in the world were destroyed, as long as topsoil, factories, and other resources were left intact, we could build anything we choose to build and fulfill any human need. It is not money that people need; rather, it is free access to the necessities of life. In a resource-based economy , money would be irrelevant. All that would be required are the resources and the manufacturing and distribution of the products.
When education and resources are made available to all people without a price tag, there would be no limit to the human potential. Although this is difficult to imagine, even the wealthiest person today would be far better off in a resource based society as proposed by The Venus Project. Today the middle classes live better than kings of times past. In a resource based economy everyone would live better than the wealthiest of today.
In such a society, the measure of success would be based on the fulfillment of one's individual pursuits rather than the acquisition of wealth, property and power.
A Resource-Based Economy is a 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.
For a more detailed explanation please visit http://www.thevenusproject.com/anewResource.php
The choice is ours to make
Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur.
Today, much of the technology needed to bring about a global Resource-Based Economy exists. If we choose to conform to the limitations of our present monetary-based economy, then it is likely that we will continue to live with its inevitable results: war, poverty, hunger, deprivation, crime, ignorance, stress, fear, and inequity. On the other hand, if we embrace the concept of a global resource-based economy , learn more about it, and share our understanding with our friends, this will help humanity evolve out of its present state.
The only limitations are those we impose upon ourselves. The Venus Project is neither utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals requiring only the intelligent application of what we already know.
Our Goal
Future implementation of the Human Resourcing and Management of a Global Network of Volunteer Architects, Structural Engineers, Mechanical, Electrical, Public Health Engineer's, CAD Managers, Project Managers, CAD Coordinators/Technicians and CG Artists to begin the process of creating preliminary designs for several variations of the Venus Project's city system.
Some will be capable of supporting thirty thousand to a million people. These prints will not be comprehensive only preliminary of the city system and its function (Design Intent). What determines which system will initially be constructed will be the terrain, resources and financial support. For this reason each presentation will be preliminary. The design of the final buildings and configuration will depend on the funds raised by the The Venus Project.
Dont be part of the problem, be part of the solution... Not a Scientist or Technical Professional but still want to get involved?
Join the Activist arm of the Venus Project - The Zeitgeist Movement at www.thezeitgeistmovement.com
Join the Zeitgeist Resource Database at www.zeitgeistresources.com
Register on this site as a Petitioner... Once we have over 1 million registered users a petition will be made to all uk political parties, news stations, newspapers and media for a UK wide debate on the future of Britain, The Venus Project and the Monetary System.
If you would like to find a regional Zeitgeist Movement in your area, simply google "Zeitgeist [Country/Region]" i.e "Zeitgeist Canada" and you will find www.thezeitgeistmovementuk.com