The Venus Project
Shantel Butler is an accomplished founder and Chief Executive Officer at Elektra Industries, specializing in safe and sustainable solid-state sodium batteries for energy storage systems. With extensive experience at Geometric Energy Corporation, Butler held multiple high-level positions including Chief Scientist & Advisor, Chief Research Officer, and Chief Strategy Officer, contributing to innovations across sustainable energy, medical diagnostics, and space technologies. Notable projects include the commercialization of non-invasive medical devices and participation in the Geometric Space Rideshare Program. A co-founder of The Institute P.B.C., Butler has focused on advancing public science and technology. Butler's academic background includes a Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Calgary.
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The Venus Project
The Venus Project is a non-profit organization that recognizes the important connection between global resource mismanagement and problems such as war, climate change, poverty, and hunger. In the broader context, these are all detrimental results of the current socio-economic operating system. In response to these challenges, our organization presents solutions through the holistic application of science and technology; two areas in which recent advancements hold the potential to make far-reaching positive impacts. However, while technology may succeed in gradually alleviating some of these problems, they cannot be resolved by simply addressing symptoms, as we do now, because they are byproducts of a much larger problem. Another major issue is that business interests currently require short-term planning and timely returns on investments. For these reasons, in addition to our expanded technical approach, our proposals include an alternative economic model which overcomes these artificial barriers to planetary wellbeing. Our methodologies are designed to realize the full potential of science and technology to achieve social betterment for all living systems. We advocate new ways of thinking and living to enable human beings, technology, and nature to progress sustainably.