The Venus Project is a

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founded by a

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-based,

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and social engineer

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. Fresco with his partner Roxanne Meadows founded this organization with a socioeconomic model to develop a resource-based economy for human beings utilizing technology.

History

Fresco worked on the “Project Americana” before The Venus Project, from 1955 to 1959. The project was mainly about environmental, traffic, and floodgates concerns. In 1970, Fresco formed an organization, Sociocybereneering Inc, based on the idea of

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and

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strategies. Later, Fresco and his partner Roxanne Meadows purchased 21 acres of farmland in

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, an unincorporated community in southeastern

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for conducting different types of research about their futuristic plan of architectural design and city models. Fresco & Meadows then created buildings and other infrastructure to work on their idea of energy-efficient cities. According to

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, 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”, by a town name,

. In 2010, Fresco and Meadows traveled to 20 countries to present “The Venus Project”. In June 2012, a

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documentary and fiction director, ''Maja Borg'' screened her film, Future My Love, at the Edinburgh International Film Festival featuring the work of Fresco and Roxanne Meadows.

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External links

The view from Venus
Non-profit organizations based in Florida