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The NZP hopes to bring together the newest ideas and inventions to a real-life, functioning community which showcases the future of energy, architecture, personal transportation, social engineering, communications and agriculture, while ensuring the benefits from these advances are made available to anyone and everyone. This experimental community will exist to experience eco-friendly living while enjoying the luxury of the latest technologies.
NZP-1 is proposed as a land based model, while NZP-2 will be designed as an artificial island. Either for land or sea, the city structure has floors dedicated to:
- residential suites
- educational facilities
- communication systems
- medical centers
- the library
- art centers
- science labs
- vertical farming and hydroponic bays
- music centers
- research exhibitions
- entertainment venues
- conference centers
- shopping
- and so on...
The inner atrium of the building is surrounded by recreational and leisure services, restaurants and shops. The lower section facilitates transportation hubs, energy generation, waste processing, recycling systems and materials manufacturing while the roof-top garden allows for a park and outdoor recreation activities.
Researching renewable sources of energy, we will design a safe energy-efficient city and community. Eventually this will lead to advanced transportation systems, automated manufacturing and computerized control systems. Most importantly, this method will generate a new incentive system based on human wellbeing and environmental concerns thanks to heavy consideration on education systems and social development programs.
Imagine a place where the essential necessities are available to all including:
- Social stability
- Economic stability
- A clean environment
- A safe food and water supply
- Efficient energy creation and usage
- Quality medical care
- A constantly improving education system
- A state-of-the-art communication system
- A state-of-the-art transportation system
- Plentiful housing
- Access to essential goods and services
Due to the current conflict of interests around the world, this project can only cater to those who would like to experience a Resource Sharing Society. A Resource Sharing Society (RSS) deals with the supply, demand, and allocation of the Earth's natural resources. Quite simply it is a mental shift in the ways a society of any size functions. What can be shared would be. We do not condone the end of possession nor ownership. The NZP calls for a straight forward approach to the redesign of society, in which the age-old inadequacies of war, poverty, hunger, debt, environmental degradation and unnecessary human suffering are viewed as historic and archaic. Elements in society, like a vehicle, can be an asset available to whoever needs it.
The purpose of this city with its living populous is to allow us to observe and research several topics of interest on how a community who has abandoned a fiat-currency functions. It is our hope that the world will look closely at these reports and decide if a Resource Sharing Society can be attuned to their own countries, creating a green friendly global society and making it a reality for all human beings.
One of the basic premises of the NZP is that we work towards having all of the Earth's resources as the common heritage of all of the world's people. A Resource Sharing Society correctly implemented would give the world much cleaner, safer living capabilities with all essential necessities being available to all persons. By applying advanced technology we can intelligently manage our resources to use surplus materials within the carrying capacity of the earth, to make goods and automated services for everybody.
By implementing the tenants outlined in a Resource Sharing Society, we as a human community can begin to develop a manner of living worthy of our species. To do so, we need to:
- Take care of each other regardless of superficial egos and artificial markers such as nationality, race, monetary worth, etc.
- Dramatically reduce the environmental stress, resource waste and abuse we're currently allowing on earth.
- Abandon a Fiat Based Currency and adopt a Resource Sharing Society.
The NZP is not intended to overcome all the problems of current society and does not profess to be some utopia of perfection. The NZP will simply operate as a self sustainable, experimental prototype and shall focus on the development of automated systems allowing itself to run near completely without the need for human intervention, whilst being open to the public for tourism.
Though the free enterprise system was useful in the past, in today's society a more logical approach is required if we are to move our social evolution forward. The ideology of individual competition will be refocused from the individual to the betterment of the society as a whole. As a start, we can do this by eliminating the notions of:
Pollution: Certainly one of the largest problems facing this planet is our never ending stream of pollution. The list is endless. Humans create pollutants in almost every aspect of our manufacturing process from nuclear to chemical waste toxins in our water, soil and air. Whether it be oil spills, chemical fires or the burning of waste creating Dioxin, the processes we use for the production of energy and consumer products are destroying the planet, its wildlife, and in actual fact, our chance of survival as a species whether perceived directly or indirectly.
Scarcity: A scarcity that for the most part, does not in fact exist. It is an illusion that has been sold to us by corporations that profit by this delusion. The less of something, the more expensive it is. This symbiotic relationship is referred to as "supply and demand". The truth is that what we really need to live (water, food, energy) exists in abundance.
Planned Obsolescence: Where purchased items are designed to fail within a certain timeframe to again grow the seller's profits with little or no regard for the resources they needlessly consume. Consider all the reusable and recyclable resources wasted in TVs, computers, washing machines, fridges, shoes, plastics, etc. that, in a society like that of the NZP would never be wasted.
Perceived Obsolescence: Where items are deemed to be unfashionable or outdated to again grow the profits of the suppliers with little or no regard for the resources they needlessly consume.
Money: While we use it everyday, many people do not fully understand the currency they spend. Today's money is called "fiat". This means that it does not in fact exist. Money cannot function without a reciprocal debt and is not backed by any substantive resource. It is this digitization of money that allows governments to continually print money causing inflation, recessions and economic collapse. Every dollar printed by the government is automatically owed back with interest to the Federal Reserve (a private non-government institution). This automatic interest is paid through the taxes you pay.
Consumer Product Waste: There are many forms of waste from disregarded uneaten food to synthetic chemical toxic waste. But the most shocking is the product waste we produce in our daily lives. The Materials Economy is based on a linear system where materials move through extraction, production, distribution, consumption and finally disposal. From the packaging that exists only to brand products with a logo to billions of empty water bottles, this fabricated system is detrimental to the environment. Those conscientious enough to recycle know how much of their recycling is but packaging. But the inconvenient truth is that for every bin that you recycle at home, 70 times as much recycling is generated by the factories that created the products you used in the first place.
The Ritual of Consumption: Humans have managed to consume more than one third (1/3) of the planet's natural resource base to date. What is even more disastrous is that only 1% of all consumer goods are in use 6 months after they were purchased. The other 99% finds its way to a land fill. So why do we do this? It is related to perceived obsolescence. Through the daily bombardment of media advertising we are told that all that is wrong with our lives can be made right via an expensive shopping trip. In short, it is easy to allow the media to do the thinking for us.
Social Uncaring: Though it may not be foremost in one's mind, this would include such unacceptable social behaviours such as littering, graffiti, using your car horn as a form of emotional release, unnecessary use of sirens and so on. Consider littering in a cathedral. Would you do it? Probably not. A reason for that is a level of respect for your environment. It is no different anywhere else on the planet. Littering and excessive noise pollution should be frowned upon so those violating everyone else's right to a clean, peaceful and beautiful setting would be shamed and embarrassed by their thoughtless behaviour.
Crime and Corruption: In a Resource Sharing Society there is no such thing as money. Also whatever is available is available to everyone. All resources are shared and are for the common prosperity of everyone because nobody owns the resources. This approach neutralizes the need to steal, whether it be a car or food. Why steal a car, when everyone has access to one and you can't sell it? The need for prisons can be eliminated. The need for an organized police force can be reduced. The elimination of crime altogether is not a realistic goal. All we are proposing is a step forward to drastically reducing the impetus for crime to exist.
Amazing things tend to happen when humans collaborate. If we put aside our nationalistic tendencies and focus on a clear, well defined objective void of superficial competition, the result is Wikipedia, the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, the Human Genome Project, and the Large Hadron Collider to name just a few. These initiatives serve as proof that we as a species can in fact work together successfully. The NZP hopes one day to be listed amongst such distinguished company. If for only a brief shining moment, the NZP is a meeting place for people with an educated passion.
The NZP welcomes you to join this initiative and become part of a solution designed to improve the lives of everyone while respecting the planet. Please browse this site, watch the videos, and read the free e-books to learn about our initial proposals and how you too can get involved.
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