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Resource Based Economy (RBE) and The Venus Project

The Venus Project offers a comprehensive plan for social reclamation in which human beings, technology and nature will be able to coexist in a long term, sustainable state of dynamic equilibrium.

The Venus Project web site and Wikipedia article
The Free World Charter (to sign!)
The Story of stuff
Sustainable Man
Documentaries
Trom: The reality of me (13 hours split in small pieces)
The true activist tool list

The Venus Project material

The books:

Zeitgeist Movement

The Movement

The collapse of the monetary system

Crises of Capitalism (by David Harvey, RSAnimated)
Externalities by David Suzuki: explains the fallacy of conventional economics
Charlie Veitch and The Love Police

Education

La educación prohibida: Una película sobre la educación centrada en el amor, el respeto, la libertad y el aprendizaje.
Born to learn is a fun, thought-provoking series of animations that illustrate ground-breaking new discoveries about how humans learn. Also Responsible Subversive, a social network for people who want to connect and discuss how to change the world by changing the way we raise our children.

Changing Education Paradigms (by Ken Robinson RSAnimated)
Where good ideas come from? (by Steven Johnson, RSAnimated)
Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us (by Dan Pink, RSAnimated)

Open Source

Free Software Fundation and Richard Stallman's talk, Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks.
Build yourself., from Open Source Ecology: A Network of Farmers, Engineers, and Supporters Building the Global Village Construction Set. Here a TED talk.

Inequalities and other problems

Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies (TED talk)
The employment (short movie)
Positive Money: Positive Money believes that the root cause of many of our current social, economic and environmental problems lies in the way that we allow money to be created. We work to make the confusing world of money and banking much easier to understand.They made a short video on the banking system and creation of debt, proposing a solution within the monetary system.

Inspiration

Eduardo Galeano. "El derecho al delirio"

Atheism

Militant atheism (by Richard Dawkins, TED talk)

Interesting technology issues & ideas

Designing the Future by Jacque Fresco

Elena's reading of the Spanish translated version, Diseñando el Futuro.

Introduction:

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 * [http://www.tromsite.com Trom]: The reality of me (13 hours split in small pieces)
+* [http://www.trueactivist.com/forum/activism-group11/internet-activism-forum17/tools-for-activists-thread321.0 The true activist] tool list
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 * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0 Crises of Capitalism (by David Harvey, RSAnimated)]
 * [http://vimeo.com/49953262 Externalities by David Suzuki]: explains the fallacy of conventional economics
 * [http://www.cveitch.org Charlie Veitch and The Love Police]
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 * [http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies (TED talk)]
 * [http://vimeo.com/32966847 The employment (short movie)]
+* [http://www.positivemoney.org.uk Positive Money]: Positive Money believes that the root cause of many of our current social, economic and environmental problems lies in the way that we allow money to be created. We work to make the confusing world of money and banking much easier to understand.They made [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fJqf5kNlVgg#! a short video] on the banking system and creation of debt, proposing a solution within the monetary system.
 == Inspiration ==