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.

Interesting links, videos, material on RBE and related

• The Venus Project web site and Wikipedia article
• The Free World Charter (to sign!)
• The Story of stuff
• Documentaries

The Venus Project documentaries

• 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

System collapse

• Crises of Capitalism (by David Harvey, RSAnimated)

Education

• 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

• 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)

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: