MRBE Resources

The Minimalist Resource-Based Economy (MRBE) socio-economic system that Peritia implements is unique, but takes elements and inspiration on multiple existing and planned projects, including The Venus Project, The Zeitgeist Movement, Earthship Biotecture, OneCommunity Global, Open Source Ecology, and multiple others. This page lists all of these resources. Any ideas, materials, and influences in the Peritia: The Graphic Novel, will be acknowledged in print.

RBE, RBEM, NL/RBE Projects

• The RBE10K Project is the main template and model for Peritia, which is itself inspired by most of the others ones listed in this page
• The Venus Project (TVP), which first coined the term Resource-Based Economy (RBE), is the original source of inspiration, as first popularised by William Gazecki's Future By Design (2006) film and Peter Joseph's Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008) and Zeitgeist Moving Forward (2011) films
• The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM), which was at first self-proclaimed the activist arm of The Venus Project, popularised TVP's RBE and work through Peter Joseph's second and third Zeitgeist film series, until tensions arose due to conflicts around long term objectives and priorities in 2012; since then, to avoid clashes and detach from TVP, TZM began referring to the proposed socio-economic system as Resource-Based Economic Model (RBEM) at first, and later as Natural Law Resource-Based Economy (NL/RBE)

Community and RBE-inspired projects with valuable online resources

• Free And Real, a community in Greece that intends to research, create and implement an efficient social structure in a prototype, sustainable eco-community
• The Auravana Project, a project for a community-type society
• Auroville (https://www.auroville.org/ website]), a religious/spiritual community of nearly 3,000 international residents (of the initially envisioned 50,000), located in India and founded in 1968 with the following charter: 1) it belongs to humanity as a whole, however, to live in it, one must be a willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness, 2) it will be the place of an unending education, of constant progress, and a youth that never ages, 3) it wants to be the bridge between the past and the future, taking advantage of all discoveries from without and from within (...), and 4) it will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual human unity
• Findhorn Foundation (website), an Scottish intentional community and spiritual ecovillage founded in 1972, that runs workshops and events in its stately Victorian former hotel, home to more than 400 people

Technical resources

• Earthship Biotecture, an architectural concept implementing the following five elements in its designs: 1) building with natural and repurposed materials, 2) thermal/solar heating and cooling, 3) solar and wind electricity, 4) water harvesting, and 5) contained sewage treatment
• Open Source Ecology, a collaborative group of designers of open source blueprints for the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) – a set of the 50 most important machines that it takes for modern life to exist – everything from a tractor, to an oven, to a circuit maker
• The Esperanto language (and it's offshoot Ido), an easy and flexible language that would serve as a universal second language to foster world peace and international understanding, which takes elements of several European languages, created with three goals: 1) To render the study of the language so easy as to make its acquisition mere play to the learner, 2) To enable the learner to make direct use of his knowledge with people of any nationality, whether the language be universally accepted or not; in other words, the language is to be directly a means of international communication, and 3) To find some means of overcoming the natural indifference of mankind, and disposing them, in the quickest manner possible, and en masse, to learn and use the proposed language as a living one, and not only in last extremities, and with the key at hand

Principles and Systems

• Permaculture, a set of design principles centred on whole systems thinking, simulating, or directly utilising the patterns and resilient features observed in natural ecosystems
• Sociocracy (also called dynamic governance), a system of governance which seeks to create harmonious social environments and productive organisations, and which relies on consent (rather than majority voting) in decision-making, and on discussions by people who know each other
• Twelve-step programs (in particular, Co-Dependents Anonymous), a series of mutual aid systems for the purpose of recovery from addictions (substance and behavioural) and compulsions, originated with Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) in the 1930s
• Cybernetics, a transdisciplinary approach for exploring regulatory systems, their structures, constraints, and possibilities, defined in 1948 as the scientific study of control and communication in the animal and the machine; its studies systems of control as a concept, attempting to discover the basic principles underlying such things as Artificial intelligence, Computer vision; Control systems, Conversation theory, Emergence, Interactions of actors theory, Learning organization, Robotics, Second-order cybernetics, and Self-organization in cybernetics

Philosophy

• Anarchism, a political philosophy and movement which is sceptical of authority and rejects all involuntary, coercive forms of hierarchy
• Relationship anarchy (RA), the application of anarchist principles to intimate relationships, especially around values such as autonomy, anti-hierarchical practices, lack of state control, anti-normativity, and community interdependence