Jacque Fresco is an industrial engineer, architectural designer, social engineer and futurist. According to WIKI, his optimistic view and desire to create solutions that maximally benefit the greatest number of people stem from his formative years during the Great Depression. Fresco is somewhat of a Buckminster Fuller only with more heart. He was born March 13, 1916 and at 92 is still alive today.
As part of my two year project to make myself energy independent, I am also reviewing various organizations that support these efforts to see how if they might assist me and/or vise versa. (Remember that today over 200,000 Americans are living energy independent, paying no one for their energy sources and that number has increased exponentially by one third since 2004. This is not some impossible “pipe dream” as the oil companies and other special interests like for us believe. It is achievable right now. Many Americans are living this dream right now—today, as the rest of us face our outrageous heating and cooling bills, not to mention gasoline prices and wonder how we will pay for it all. ) At least half our population could be energy independent in a year if we set our minds and hearts to the task.
Detail Regarding the Venus Project follows:
Read More »public resources and assets into private hands and to enrich their constituents and supporters. Indeed, the notion that public officials are charged with promoting civil rights and the general welfare came as quite a shock and the adherents of the Republican party are still attached to the former practice.
So, John McCain's efforts to smooth a deal that will enrich his friends shouldn't be considered unusual. Nevertheless, his efforts are an example of what we now consider corruption. In part, that's because, as our public resources and assets have become debased and depleted, our concept of ethics has evolved to expect that public officials carry out the duties of good stewards and not as dispensers of favors to their riends.
It's not right to dole out the nation's natural inheritance in exchange for a mess of porridge.
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