Design Solutions - Jacque Fresco

The simplest type of bathroom: Shower, sink and toilet bowl all moulded into one system. There's no hardware on the sink, just a slot an water comes out as a ribbon. It would cut the soap off the hand and use about 1/6 of the water. The waste water from the sink fills the water closet and we flush the toilet with that water. So instead of telling people to save water, build a system in !! 

- Jacque Fresco

http://www.thevenusproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6&tmpl=openurl

Indigenous Systems Reduce Greenhouse Gases

So Sensible !!  

"... During meetings in Turkey this week, [a 115-country group] is discussing a strategy that it thinks could help protect biodiversity: A return to indigenous systems of farming and managing land...  One example of a traditional farming technique that the group hopes to resuscitate: the ancient Chinese practice of rearing fish in rice paddies. Adding fish to a paddy helps manage insect pests without the need for pesticides, provides natural fertilizer for the crop, feeds birds and other wildlife, and produces a sustainable meat supply for farming families..."

- By John Upton, 9 December 2013.


For the whole article, please go to:

http://grist.org/news/turns-out-those-old-fashioned-ways-of-farming-were-actually-pretty-smart/

Vertical Food Production in Cities

This is "Resource Based Economy" in action...  Where nature meets technology to solve problems such as "food availability" in places with a high population density.


Feeding 9 Billion: Vertical Farming - Singapore

Published on Sep 9, 2013

For downloads and more information visit:http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=65841

In Singapore, the challenge of feeding a growing population is pushing the concept of urban farming to new heights. A super-efficient vertical farming system is producing greens for 5 million residents.

"Can we supply enough food for everyone on the planet?" is a question plaguing leaders around the world. In Singapore SkyGreen offers one example of how this might be possible, "not just technically, but economically". By increasing their food security while reducing the impact of food production on global climate change, SkyGreen is 10 times more productive per square foot than conventional farming.

Centre for Investigative Reporting

http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/164428031/sky-high-vegetables-vertical-farming-sprouts-in-singapore

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/11/06/164428031/sky-high-vegetables-vertical-farming-sprouts-in-singapore

Introduction - The Venus Project

Roxanne Meadows - The Venus Project

Published on Oct 18, 2013

Made by: Dennis Jakupovich "InVisionProductions"

We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design. Roxanne Meadows

Please Visit the links down below in order to understand more about TVP & advocate with us.

Official TVP page: www.thevenusproject.com

FAQ: http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the...

Essay: www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-pro­­­­­ject/essay

Aims & Proposals: www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-pro­­­­­ject/aims-a-proposals

About RBE : www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-pro­­­­­ject/resource-based-economy

Official TVP Activism: www.tvpactivism.com

Official TVP Magazine: www.tvpmagazine.com

Official YouTube link: www.youtube.com/user/thevenusprojectmedi­­­­­a

Twitter: https://twitter.com/frescotweets

Official Paradise or Oblivion link: www.paradiseoroblivion.com

No More Fossil Fuels

A Plan to Power 100 Percent 

of the Planet with Renewables

Wind, water and solar technologies can provide 100 percent of the world's energy, 

eliminating all fossil fuels. Here's how...

In December leaders from around the world will meet in Copenhagen to try to agree on cutting back greenhouse gas emissions for decades to come. The most effective step to implement that goal would be a massive shift away from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy sources. If leaders can have confidence that such a transformation is possible, they might commit to an historic agreement...

The very best options were wind, solar, geothermal, tidal and hydroelectric power—all of which are driven by wind, water or sunlight (referred to as WWS) 

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-path-to-sustainable-energy-by-2030

Diagram: Resource Based Economy

Living Economies Educational Trust

https://www.facebook.com/livingeconomies

What if we got rid of money altogether and people simply kept making and doing the useful things that everyone needs? The Resource-Based Economy takes this idea seriously and, in fact has been put into practice to different degrees from the early 1900s, beginning with the Antigonish community in Nova Scotia.

The Occupy movement was strongly attracted to its life-enhancing aspects, and RBEs have been covered in the Venus Project and the Zeitgeist Movement. It's a fascinating story with lots of possibilities, well explained at:

http://occupyconcepts.org/wiki/Resource-based_Economy

Yet it is not always seen as a complete solution. Do you think a national-plus-local currency scheme would do better? What about a gift economy? (We're piling on the ideas tonight.)

Is some kind of measure of value ultimately needed, even if it is only a bunch of bits in a computer? Or sea-shells, as has been done before?