Urban Garden Magazine meets Jacque Fresco, a 93 year old futurist, social engineer and brainchild of “The Venus Project.” Fresco says that the sustainability of life on this planet is beyond his opinion. It is axiomatic. And he’s developed a plan to achieve it. But can we get our heads around it in time?
Many people spend their lives chasing dollars without ever stopping to question what it is they are chasing. After all, everybody else is doing it, better not get left behind – right? Well, before we get into rights and wrongs, why don’t we hit RESET and try to think like a visitor from Mars? Let’s take a fresh look at this weird Earth-stuff they call “money” …
Douglas Rushkoff, author of “Life Inc: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back,” argues that the best thing we can do for banks on the brink of collapse is to sit back and enjoy the spectacle.
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