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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 Venus Project material

• Paradise or Oblivion
• Trailer (nice short summary)
• Resource Based Economy by Jacque Fresco (short TED talk)
• Awakening by Douglas Mallette

The books:

• Designing the Future by Jacque Fresco, also in Spanish
• The best that money can't buy by Jacque Fresco

Zeitgeist Movement

The Movement

• The Big Question (by Peter Joseph, TED talk)
• The Zeitgeist movies: Moving forward
• Culture in Decline series

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)

Inspiration

• Eduardo Galeano. "El derecho al delirio"

Atheism

• Militant atheism (by Richard Dawkins, TED talk)

Interesting technology issues & ideas

• The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology (TED talk)
• Design for a better world

Designing the Future by Jacque Fresco

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

1. Introduction: