The Venus Project is a educational think tank

operating out of a 25-acre Research Center located in Venus, Florida.

When one considers the enormity of the challenges facing society today, we can safely conclude

that the time is long overdue for us to reexamine our values, and to reflect upon and evaluate some

of the underlying issues and assumptions we have as a society. This self-analysis calls into question

the very nature of what it means to be human, what it means to be a member of a "civilization," and

what choices we can make today to ensure a prosperous future for all the world's people.

At present we are left with very few alternatives. The answers of yesterday are no longer relevant.

Either we continue as we have been with our outmoded social customs and habits of thought, in

which case our future will be threatened, or we can apply a more appropriate set of values that are

relevant to an emergent society.

Experience tells us that human behavior can be modified, either toward constructive or destructive

activity. This is what The Venus Project is all about - directing our technology and resources toward

the positive, for the maximum benefit of people and planet and seeking out new ways of thinking and

living that emphasize and celebrate the vast potential of the human spirit. We have the tools at hand

to design - and build - a future that is worthy of the human potential. The Venus Project presents a

bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture. What

follows is not an attempt to predict what will be done - only what could be done. The responsibility

for our future is in our hands, and depends on the decisions that we make today. The greatest

resource that is available today is our own ingenuity.

While social reformers and think tanks formulate strategies that treat only superficial symptoms,

without touching the basic social operation, The Venus Project approaches these problems somewhat

differently. We feel we cannot eliminate these problems within the framework of the present political

and monetary establishment. It would take too many years to accomplish any significant change.

Most likely they would be watered down and thinned out to such an extent that the changes would

be indistinguishable

The Venus Project advocates an alternative vision for a sustainable new world civilization unlike any

social system that has gone before. Although this description is highly condensed, it is based upon

years of study and experimental research by many, many people from many scientific disciplines.

Cities that think

It would be far easier and would require less energy to build new, efficient cities than to attempt to

update and solve the problems of the old ones. The Venus Project proposes a city that would use the

most sophisticated available resources and construction techniques. Its geometrically elegant and

efficient circular arrangement will be designed to operate with the minimum expenditure of energy

using the cleanest technology available in harmony with nature to obtain the highest possible

standard of living for everyone.

The outer perimeters of the circular city will provide recreational facilities such as golfing, bike paths,

and riding or hiking trails. There will be a circular waterway surrounding the agricultural belt, which will

be supplied with indigenous plants that will remove contaminants and harmful bacteria from the

water. The agricultural belt, with its transparent, enclosed buildings will be used to grow a wide

variety of plants in a controlled environment without the use of pesticides. There will be eight sectors

to provide and store clean, renewable enefgy through the use of wind generators, heat concentrating

systems, and photovoltaics. In addition, readways, walkways, and bicycle paths will be specially

designed to collect and store radiant energy from the sun, which will then be used for heating or

cooling through a process similar to the "Peltier Effect." Along the edges of the roadways will be

removable sections or gratings to permit new installations and upgrades without damaging the roads

each time a new installation is made.

The residential belt will be beautifully landscaped featuring lakes and winding streams, and homes will

be biomorphous with graceful contours influenced by nature to blend in with the landscape. A wide

variety of innovative architectural

designs will reflect the diversity and

the preferences of the occupants.

The exterior surfaces of these

homes will be thermally activated so

that the warmer it gets on the

outside, the cooler it can become

on the inside at a rate that is

regulated by the occupant. The

buildings will be prefabricated with a

new type of foam-reinforced

material that is strong and light-

weight. Their heat-reflective

external surface will be relatively maintenance-free, impervious to weather, and fire resistant. Insects

will be repelled by sonic and other electronic means. With this type of construction there will be

minimal damage from earthquakes, hurricanes, and fires.

Adjacent to the residential district will be the dining areas where one can find a wide selection of

food, much of which will be organically grown. Next will be the apartments, design centers, and

research labs. The eight domes surrounding the central dome will house the library, science, art,

music, research, exhibition, entertainment, and conference centers. There will also be "access

centers" where one will have access to a wide variety of products such as cameras, waterskis,

recording equipment, boats, etc. in a manner similar to the public library. The only requirements

necessary to obtain these items would be to familiarize oneself with the necessary information for

the products' safe and proper use.

One of the major reasonsfor this energy efficient new social design is to allocate enough resources

to meet the needs of all people so that there will always be more than enough equipment available at

any time. The central dome, or "theme center", will house the core of the cybernated system,

educational facilities, shopping centers, computerized communications networking systems, health-

care, and child-care facilities.

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