The Venus Project
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The Venus Project is a 501(c) nonprofit organization founded by architect and social engineer Jacque Fresco.[1] Fresco, along with his partner Roxanne Meadows, founded this project with a socioeconomic model to develop a resource-based economy for human beings utilizing technology.[2]
History
Before the Venus Project Fresco worked on the Project Americana from 1955 to 1959. That project was mainly about environmental, traffic, and floodgate concerns.[3][2]
In 1970, Fresco formed an organization, Sociocybereneering Inc, based on the idea of combining technology and energy conservation strategies. Later, Fresco and his partner Roxanne Meadows purchased Template:Cvt of farmland in Venus, Florida, an unincorporated community in southeastern Highlands County, Florida in order to conduct different types of research about their futuristic architectural design and city models.[3][4] Fresco and Meadows began creating buildings and other infrastructure to actualize their idea of energy-efficient cities. According to The New York Times, initially, they supported the project by selling books and lecture videos. In 1980, Fresco, established a research center to experiment on resource-based economy and later named it "The Venus Project" after the town of Venus, Florida.[5][6]
The project was prominently featured in Peter Joseph's 2009 film Zeitgeist: Addendum. Fresco and Joseph parted ways in 2011.[7]
In 2010, Fresco and Meadows traveled to 20 countries to present the Venus Project.[8]
In June 2012, Swedish documentary and fiction director Maja Borg screened her film Future My Love at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, featuring the work of Fresco and Meadows.[9]
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