Well if your looking for a neutral place to start with it go to wikipedia under “NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMICS” in fact thats where the term “RESOURCE BASED ECONOMY” comes from. Also check out “GIFT ECONOMY” and you maybe also interested to check out the movement he used to be part of “TECHNOCRACY” they have several video’s on YouTube explainning what they believe. All those pretty much are where RBE was developed out of but mainly it was from “Natural Resource Economics”. All he did was repackage the terminology from a Natural Resource Economy he added Based to get Natural Resource Based Economy. Then he dropped Natural from the beginning of the term and presto he got “Resource Based Economy”.

The Promethean Workers Association started talking about creating a Non Monetary system well before we had used the term RBE. Check out Death Of The Dark Aeon and Birth of The New Aeon by Sidney Martinez. He talks in that about eliminating banks, money, and so on and the social changes that must be demanded during transition. We called it Directivisation at the time its only recently we’ve adopted the term “Resource Based Economy” but i will say we already believed in the economic system without knowing it existed. So when we encountered the ideas we at first naturally considered joinning our forces with The Zeitgeist Movement. Upon closer study, research, debate, discussion, and meditation we found this could not be possible since several other of our existing ideas were incompatible with The Zeitgeist Movement. So its why we’ve choosen to remain an independent movement while at the same time adopting Resource Based Economics which is really a colorful way or saying NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMY. Both terms NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMY and RESOURCE BASED ECONOMY sound great to me =)

Ok and last point as far as Jacques not wanting a monopoly i beg to differ. What about the fact that he filed a claim with The U.S. Patent Office in September 17th of this year to TRADEMARK the term RESOURCE BASED ECONOMY? If his trademark goes through he can sue anyone else who doesn’t use that term as he defines it.

Go here to see the filing for yourself with the US Patent Office:

http://tmportal.uspto.gov/external/portal/tow?SRCH=Y&isSubmitted=true&details=&SELECT=US+Serial+No&TEXT=77829193#

Also if he’s not trying to have a monopoly why did Roxanne Meadows give a Cease and Desist order to The Resource Based Economy Collective? She told them they had to stop using the name for their group since they were Trademarking it. We are fighting to keep the term Open Source so that anyone may work on it regardless whether they agree with our ideas or not. This is a new philosophy it must be open for other people to develop and expand on the ideas. We are planning to file a formal protest against his Trademarking claims with the U.S. Patent Office. On the basis that the term exists as part of intellectual property in our literature and is in common use in many other places. In any case here’s some of the text of his trademark filing i’ll answer everything else later.

Here’s some of the text before:
Trademark/Service Mark Application, Principal Register
Serial Number: 77829193
Filing Date: 09/17/2009

Trademark/Service Mark Application, Principal Register
Serial Number: 77829193
Filing Date: 09/17/2009

To the Commissioner for Trademarks:
MARK: RESOURCE BASED ECONOMY (Standard Characters, see mark)
The literal element of the mark consists of RESOURCE BASED ECONOMY.
The mark consists of standard characters, without claim to any particular font, style, size, or color.

The applicant, Jacque Fresco, a citizen of United States, having an address of
21 Valley Lane
Venus, Florida 33960
United States
requests registration of the trademark/service mark identified above in the United States Patent and Trademark Office on the Principal Register established by the Act of July 5, 1946 (15 U.S.C. Section 1051 et seq.), as amended, for the following:

International Class _______: Association services, namely, promoting the interests of alternative social sustainability and design

Use in Commerce: The applicant is using the mark in commerce, or the applicant’s related company or licensee is using the mark in commerce, or the applicant’s predecessor in interest used the mark in commerce, on or in connection with the identified goods and/or services. 15 U.S.C. Section 1051(a), as amended.

In International Class _______, the mark was first used at least as early as 01/01/1995, and first used in commerce at least as early as 01/01/1995, and is now in use in such commerce. The applicant is submitting one specimen(s) showing the mark as used in commerce on or in connection with any item in the class of listed goods and/or services, consisting of a(n) Digital image of website currently used in commerce.
Specimen File1

Correspondence Information: Fresco, Jacque
21 Valley Lane
Venus, Florida 33960
(863) 465-0321(phone)
meadows@thevenusproject.com (authorized)

A fee payment in the amount of $325 has been submitted with the application, representing payment for 1 class(es).

Declaration

The undersigned, being hereby warned that willful false statements and the like so made are punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, under 18 U.S.C. Section 1001, and that such willful false statements, and the like, may jeopardize the validity of the application or any resulting registration, declares that he/she is properly authorized to execute this application on behalf of the applicant; he/she believes the applicant to be the owner of the trademark/service mark sought to be registered, or, if the application is being filed under 15 U.S.C. Section 1051(b), he/she believes applicant to be entitled to use such mark in commerce; to the best of his/her knowledge and belief no other person, firm, corporation, or association has the right to use the mark in commerce, either in the identical form thereof or in such near resemblance thereto as to be likely, when used on or in connection with the goods/services of such other person, to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive; and that all statements made of his/her own knowledge are true; and that all statements made on information and belief are believed to be true.

Signature: /Jacque Fresco/ Date Signed: 09/17/2009
Signatory’s Name: Jacque Fresco
Signatory’s Position: Owner

RAM Sale Number: 4334
RAM Accounting Date: 09/18/2009

Serial Number: 77829193
Internet Transmission Date: Thu Sep 17 18:19:31 EDT 2009
TEAS Stamp: USPTO/BAS-204.94.57.36-20090917181931425
739-77829193-460992d3d8ab3fbc79e50b767a2
c81f4e-DA-4334-20090916234410474239

Fresco also want’s to be challenged, and not be the ‘be all end all’ when it comes to this. To me, ‘the resource-based economy’ is the overlying concept, and TVP is one possibility within RBE. I think this also is Fresco’s notion on this. And that is what I want this website to reflect. The Zeitgeist Movement states clearly that they are ‘the activist arm’ of The Venus Project. I think it would be healthier if they changed their mission to be ‘an activist arm of RBE’ with TVP as one possibility.

I have also NEVER felt from Fresco that he has monopoly on this concept, quite the contrary. I feel he want’s the whole world to work together to develop RBE on the planet. He says himself that he is only an inventor with ideas. He upholds the scientific method, and I see nothing wrong with that. Science has developed into researching ‘spiritual’ and mental phenomena as well, and also proving their effect. Heck, quantum physics even says this is all an illusion dependent on our consciousness. What more do you need? Neither Fresco or Joseph are fully updated on this, I can tell, but they are not ‘against’ anything that is for the best of Humanity.

FYI though Niceocracy literally means a “Nice Bureacracy”…