I could be mistaken, but my sense is this film will be a major viral hit. Be sure to watch this trailer and see what you think at NPD or on their site, http://www.soundofmyvoicemovie.com/

Filmsforaction.com recently released a list of the “The Top 100 Documentaries Inspiring the Shift to a Sustainable Paradigm”. The group urges people to “host film screenings, share these films with friends, buy and give copies to your elected officials and school faculty… and you will be laying the foundation for a local movement for mass societal, environmental, and economic change.” The Economics of Happiness, the film that we shared with readers as part of the EOH Conference we attended was #3 on the list, behind The Corporation and The Future of Food. Also on the list at #64 is Paradise With Side Effects (2004), the independent documentary about ISEC’s work in Ladakh. Please consider ordering and/or hosting a film series in your community or with friends. The shift begins with each of us.

Click here to access the top 100 documentaries.

Let this video inspire you to act in a kind way to someone who shows up in your life today…

Video from KarmaTube

Paradise or Oblivion details the root causes of the systemic value disorders and detrimental symptoms caused by our current established system. This video presentation advocates a new socio-economic system, which is updated to present-day knowledge, featuring the life-long work of Social Engineer, Futurist, Inventor and Industrial Designer Jacque Fresco, which he calls a Resource-Based Economy.

The film details the need to outgrow the dated and inefficient methods of politics, law, business, or any other “establishment” notions of human affairs, and use the methods of science, combined with high technology, to provide for the needs of all the world’s people. It is not based on the opinions of the political and financial elite or on illusionary so-called democracies, but on maintaining a dynamic equilibrium with the planet that could ultimately provide abundance for all people.

Paradise or Oblivion, by The Venus Project, introduces the viewer to a more appropriate value system that would be required to enable this caring and holistic approach to benefit human civilization. This alternative surpasses the need for a monetary-based, controlled, and scarcity-oriented environment, which we find ourselves in today.

*This is NOT the “major motion picture” that The Venus Project is working towards but rather is a 52 min. documentary to introduce the aims and proposals to new people. Paradise or Oblivion will be released in March 2012 and we will post a link to the documentary as soon as it is released.

In the meantime, if you are not familiar with the work of Jacque Fresco and his Venus Project, here is a link to his highly informative newsletter and The Venue Project site. Fresco is one of the most brilliant minds of our time and his visionary proposals make total sense. He just raised funds to hire a screenwriter to develop a feature film that can inform the world that a solution exists to humanity’s challenges. This film cannot arrive too soon. Like Buckminster Fuller before him, the world is fortunate to have his brilliant mind and heart in service to life. NPD will continue to update readers on Jacque’s progress as it means our progress.