For anyone browsing The Venus Project’s website over the course of this year, you may have noticed new content being added.

https://www.thevenusproject.com/website-update/

In recent years it has been the suggestion of many that The Venus Project website has been overdue for an update, in both content and layout. We have responded to this suggestion by revising the website to detail The Venus Project’s present position with regard to global circumstances and future possibilities. Viewers of the website will find the general structure of pages rearranged and new information that presents TVP from a broader vantage point. If you have feedback regarding the recent updates, please submit this form:

https://thevenusproject.typeform.com/to/zkNduECx

Have you heard of Thorium Molten Salt?

The Venus Project has been searching for a reliable thorium education and advocacy group and have found a partner in the Thorium Energy Alliance (TEA), non-governmental, non-profit 501(c)3, educational organization based in the United States, which seeks to promote energy security of the world through the use of thorium as a fuel source. We prioritize and recommend information about thorium from TEA.

https://thoriumenergyalliance.com/

Their executive director, John Kutsch, is co-editor of the 2024 edition of Global Progress on Molten Salt Reactors.

https://shop.elsevier.com/books/global-progress-on-molten-salt-reactors/dolan/978-0-323-99377-7

Molten salt thorium reactors now stand as one of the more promising long-term and globally scalable energy sources for humanity. The Venus Project will continue to monitor the status of molten salt reactor viability.

In this original article for The Venus Project, Theofilos Chaldezos draws attention to what has been called the ‘metacrisis’ or ‘polycrisis’. A sobering view of our global reality should help us calibrate our approach to confronting emerging challenges. The complexity of the problems calls for multiple parallel approaches.

https://www.thevenusproject.com/cultivating-a-resilient-society-amidst-the-great-unraveling/

Can you think of any other ways in which people use the term 'The Venus Project'?

The phrase ‘The Venus Project’ refers to a 501(c)3 organization and its emerging collective body of work but carries additional meanings which include:

• The Venus Project ‘Center’ in Venus, Florida, United States
• the body of work of Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows
• a brand of sustainability media
• a philosophy, system of thought, value system, models of reality, vision of the future, etc.
• a collective of people who advocate all of the above

The Venus Project as a name was incorporated in 1994 by Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows and converted to a 501(c)3 nonprofit in 2018. The Venus Project continued under the direction of Jacque Fresco until he died in 2017 at age 101. The Venus Project now maintains a board of directors and multiple teams who continue to evolve a design response to emerging global circumstances.

https://www.thevenusproject.com/about/history/

How many of you have been involved since the beginning?

Since 2008, The Venus Project has presented a leading vision of sustainability. The Great Recession of 2008 provoked much demand for economic alternatives. Fresco and Meadow’s years of preparation converged with the hard work of several filmmakers to popularize The Venus Project to a global audience.

Since then, Fresco’s work has influenced a wide range of movements, communities, and industrial sectors. The Venus Project has since undergone extensive exploration of global energy and materials constraints and now builds upon the foundational work of Jacque Fresco to confront the challenges of global overshoot.

https://www.thevenusproject.com/about/history/

The body of work of Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows is truly prolific.

From 1976 to 2017, Jacque Fresco was assisted by Roxanne Meadows to amass a large body of work consisting of thousands of lectures, drawings, schematic illustrations, and tabletop models representing an alternative global socioeconomic system. For decades, Fresco promoted his work through several books, videos, articles, publicity, and public lectures.

From 1980 to 2006, Fresco and Meadows constructed 10 buildings in a rural community called Venus in Florida, United States. This was a testing ground and demonstration site of several architectural methods. Tours of this location remain open to the public.

https://www.thevenusproject.com/about/history/

Did you know that prior to The Venus Project, Jacque Fresco referred to the project as Sociocyberneering?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBIdk-fgCeQ

Prior to The Venus Project, Fresco directed Sociocyberneering Inc. a non-profit organization he founded in 1971 in Miami, Florida. During this time Fresco refined the bulk of the ideas that he would later present as The Venus Project. Fresco’s visionary concepts were calibrated to the era’s energy, materials, and global population, and offered a forethinking response to global socio-economic reality.

Foreseeing an unsustainable world, he emphasized sustainable resource management and addressed diverse challenges such as consumerism, waste, war, poverty, and politics. His forward-thinking ideas aimed to prevent the trajectory leading to the current situation depicted by the BAU2 scenario in the Limits to Growth.
https://www.thevenusproject.com/about/history/