The Venus Project

Will The Venus Project ever change direction? This is a question about means versus ends, tactics and strategy verses vision and aims. Means and ends are often confused. Likewise, it would be easy to confuse The Venus Project's path vs its direction. We may consult a compass to take many paths, but all paths can lead North. The direction of The Venus Project is defined by a set of values that promote the health of life for as much of Earth as possible. These are the ends. The concept of a Resource Based Economy, or other concepts such as Circular Economy or Steady State Economy, are the means to this end. It would be ideal to express these values at the global scale, however, practicality may dictate the expression of these values at a smaller scale for the time being. Likewise, changes in methods, tactics, technology, opportunities, risks, constraints, and emerging facts may alter the The Venus Project's path at any given time. Equifinality is a law of complex systems and entails that multiple paths can lead to the same outcome. This implies that the means may change while the ends do not. In practice, the Venus Project is expected to be an evolving system consisting of innumerable contributors. There is no way to guarantee control over where they will take the development as the system scales. Read more FAQs: https://lnkd.in/etTNN5bT #thevenusproject #thevenusprojectofficial #venusproject #oprojetovenus #elproyectovenus #resourcebasedeconomy #roxannemeadows #ПроектВенера

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George Lakoff unveils the prevalence of metaphor in human thought. https://lnkd.in/ey8j_qea #thevenusproject #thevenusprojectofficial #venusproject #oprojetovenus #elproyectovenus #resourcebasedeconomy #roxannemeadows #ПроектВенера #georgelakoff

From our recommended reading list: "Metaphors We Live By" by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. The book claims that metaphors are not just linguistic expressions but fundamental to how we think, act, and understand the world. They show how everyday concepts—like time, argument, or emotion—are structured through metaphorical frameworks rooted in bodily experience. This challenges the traditional view of language as literal and reveals how metaphor shapes our perceptions and social realities. -- See more from our recommended book list: https://lnkd.in/gUS3C-nr #thevenusproject #thevenusprojectofficial #venusproject #oprojetovenus #elproyectovenus #resourcebasedeconomy #roxannemeadows #ПроектВенера #georgelakoff

Does The Venus Project collaborate with similar projects? The Venus Project has more than a 90 year continuity of philosophical, theoretical, and operational development. For over a decade, The Venus Project has had widespread influence, inspiring the formation and activities of other organizations. Although The Venus Project has gained its uniqueness from a relatively insular development for most of its history, its evolution will entail collaboration with other organizations, projects, and ideas. While collaboration can open opportunity, it can also pose challenges. Collaboration can jeopardize the integrity of accumulated values, ideas, and ideals as much as it can supplement and enhance. Self-serving agendas and limited understanding can degrade an already well designed whole, in which case The Venus Project is regressed rather than advanced. Collaboration for The Venus Project is not as simple as negotiating a business deal. It entails attention to many underlying philosophical and theoretical variables that can make or break its reason to exist. Collaboration is possible—but with wisdom and caution. Read more FAQs: https://lnkd.in/etTNN5bT

What could an Evolution of The Venus Project look like? The question is very difficult to answer, however, one thing is certain: we must synthesize diverse fields into a cohesive, innovative framework. This article, by Theofilos Chaldezos, considers what it could look like to integrate various schools of thought such as the circular economy, steady state economy, permaculture, regenerative agriculture, degrowth, and Game B, into one. https://lnkd.in/eSU44rsX #thevenusproject #thevenusprojectofficial #venusproject #oprojetovenus #elproyectovenus #resourcebasedeconomy #roxannemeadows #ПроектВенера

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From our recommended reading list: "The Systems Model of Creativity" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi See more from our recommended book list: https://lnkd.in/gUS3C-nr #thevenusproject #thevenusprojectofficial #venusproject #oprojetovenus #elproyectovenus #resourcebasedeconomy #roxannemeadows #ПроектВенера

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