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Resource Based Economy (RBE)

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

Spanish Venus Project Group in Facebook.

Venus Project material

• Paradise or Oblivion
• Trailer (nice short summary)
• Resource Based Economy by Jacque Fresco (short TED talk)
• Awakening by Douglas Mallette
• Future by design documentary
• Frequently asked questions

The books:

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

Zeitgeist Movement

The Zeitgeist Movement is a global nonprofit organization for the abolition of money and promotion of a global socioeconomic system in which all resources would be equally shared.

The Movement

• The Zeitgeist movies: Moving forward
• Culture in Decline series
• Who is Peter Joseph? A Mini-Doc by Charles Robinson in 2009

Series of talks by Peter Joseph

• Where are we now?, London 2009

• Where are we going?, Maharishi University 2009: 1. Evolutionary baggage, 2. Project Earth, 3. The Venus Project and 4 Transition.

Radio programs with Peter Joseph on the Orientation Guide:

• Overview

Other talks:

• The Big Question TED talk
• Arriving at a Resource Based Economy
• Message to Occupy Wall Street & The World (8min)
• When Normality Becomes Distortion

Education and Creativity

• La educación prohibida: Una película sobre la educación centrada en el amor, el respeto, la libertad y el aprendizaje. ("¿Pero no quieres tener un título, ser alguien en la vida? Yo ya soy alguien en la vida!")
• 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
• The Empathic Civilisation (by Jeremy Rifkin, RSAnimated)

Mindfulness

• Introduction to Mindfulness (at Google) by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Short TED talk by Diana Winston
• Teaching the ABCs of Attention, Balance and Compassion (TED) by Susan Kaiser Greenland

Conflict Management

Intuitive eating

Open Source and Gift economy

• 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.

Atheism

• Militant atheism: by Richard Dawkins (TED talk)

The flaws, fallacies and collapse of the monetary system

• Living Without Economic Growth (7min) by Charles Eisenstein
• Crises of Capitalism by David Harvey, RSAnimated
• Externalities by David Suzuki: explains the fallacy of conventional economics

Labour for income

• The employment (short movie)
• Robots Will Steal Your Job, but That's OK by Federico Pistono at TEDxVienna. On the bright side of technological unemployment.
• Workers of the world... Relax! (10min): A philosophical treatise against the practice of forced labor for income.

Consumerism

"El mundo trata a los niños ricos como si fueran dinero, para que se acostumbren a actuar como el dinero actúa. El mundo trata a los niños pobres como si fueran basura, para que se conviertan en basura. Y a los del medio, a los niños que no son ricos ni pobres, los tiene atados a la pata del televisor, para que desde muy temprano acepten, como destino, la vida prisionera. Mucha magia y mucha suerte tienen los niños que consiguen ser niños." Eduardo Galeano

• Consuming Kids - The Commercialization of Childhood (1h06). On the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and violent video games to bogus educational products and the family car.

Discipline

• Charlie Veitch and The Love Police, on Civil disobedience

Inequalities

• How economic inequality harms societies by Richard Wilkinson (TED talk)
• 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 not to despair

Interesting movies

• La Belle Verte, a 1996 French film written and directed by Coline Serreau.
• Un lugar en el mundo, 1992, de Adolfo Aristarain.

Speeches

• El derecho al delirio by Eduardo Galeano

• A message for all of humanity by Charlies Chaplin.

• It's just a ride by comedian Bill Hicks

Quotations:

• I was asked once, “You’re a smart man. Why aren’t you rich?” I replied, “You’re a rich man. Why aren’t you smart?” Jacque Fresco

• To be proven wrong should be celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness, Peter Joseph

• Pour atteindre la vérité, il faut une fois dans la vie se défaire de toutes les opinions qu'on a reçues, et reconstruire de nouveau tout le système de ses connaissances, Blaise Pascal

• Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. Howard Zinn

• The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive—and autonomy can be the antidote. Tom Kelley (IDEO manager)

• If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. Noam Chomsky

• La seule façon de traiter avec un monde non libre est de devenir si absolument libre que votre existence même est un acte de rébellion. Albert Camus

• Dan Pink, author of "Drive":

The three most important natural motivators of human endeavor and excellence:

1. Autonomy: The urge to direct our own lives.
2. Mastery: The desire to get better at something that matters.
3. Purpose: The yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves.

External rewards extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, crowd out good behavior, encourage cheating, become addictive, and foster short-term thinking.

While complying can be an effective strategy for physical survival, it's a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in control. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement

• In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. Carl Sagan

• Federico Pistono

The goal of the future is full unemployment so we can play!

Technology was never meant to increase productivity and growth so that we can work for longer hours, anywhere, any time, from any device. That's insanity. It was meant to make our lives better.

• Chance favours the connected mind! Steven Johnson

• Intenta que el niño que fuiste nunca se averguence del adulto que eres.

• Cuando soplan vientos de cambio, algunos construyen muros, otros molinos.

• Afirmar que mi destino no está ligado al tuyo es como decir: tu lado del bote se está hundiendo.

Interesting technology issues & ideas

• The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology (TED talk)

• Design for a better world

Audiobook recording

Designing the Future by Jacque Fresco

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