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 other 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 (especially around TZM's grassroots and openness vs TVP's hierarchical and secretive approaches); 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

These are a list of planned or implemented community projects with valuable elements and characteristics that Peritia uses, is inspired by, or can research further for ideas and solutions.

• Free And Real, a community in Greece that intends to research, create and implement an efficient social structure in a prototype, sustainable eco-community
• One Community, a non-profit think tank and 100%-volunteer organization, with a mission to help people create a better world by demonstrating a more sustainable and enriching way of living and open source everything needed for replication, consciously creating a better world; includes free-shared and Highest Good approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices; in particular, Peritia makes use of its Aquapini, Wallipini, and Zen Garden
• The Auravana Project, a project for a community-type society

Existing ecovillages

These are a list of existing ecovillages that have managed to sustain stable sizeable populations for a number of years and can provide a wealth of information in relation to challenges and benefits of communal and/or intentional living.

• Bundagen, an off-grid intentional community near Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia, with around 200 people (180 members and their children)
• 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 its 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, Systems, and Philosophy

• 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
• 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
• Gift economy, a mode of exchange where valuables are not traded or sold, but rather given without an explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards
• One Community's Highest Good Philosophy, a belief that even a small group of people cooperating, collaborating, and committing to holding each other accountable to planning and acting on what is in the best interest of everyone has the potential to transform the world, and that the idea of setting aside differences in order to work towards positive transformation of all life on Earth should be seen as non-controversial, non-political, and simply being common sense, meaning: Non-dogmatic, Good for people, Good for economy, Good for the planet