What's a Venus Society?

Venus societies are groups of people committed to advancing the goals of TVP and a resource-based economy in the best way possible: Making it happen in real life. In every city, Venus Societies will live the dream by taking a "waste not, want not" approach to life. Read this article for more. 

What does that mean?

While still working in a monetary economy, Venus Societies will constantly aim to be as self-sufficient as possible. They will grow their own food with automated gardening, 3-D print a diverse array of products and lobby for the construction of makerspaces. They'll take what other businesses might consider "trash" and discover innovative ways to reuse it. Societies also seek donations of land and money from local philanthropists. If you got 1000 people to each donate $100, you would have enough to purchase almost all the necessary machinery.

Venus Societies will partner with local farmer's markets, stores and businesses to inform and educate them about a resource-based economy, and look for their input on planning the next stages of transition. They may even promote the use of alternative community currencies. They won't work alone- instead joining forces with other local sustainability movements and academics. Together they will build and manage the Direct-Democracy infrastructure that will allow citizens to take back control of their city.

Venus Societies aren't so much activist groups as they are ways of life. They serve to test out Resource-Based Economies on a local scale, with each member receiving an equal share of local production. Venus Societies run the members-only "warehouse stores" where they get products for "free". Put simply, it's the society that does the real on-the-ground work of preparing cities for transition.