New International One Community Pioneer Applicants Page

One Community is a global collaborative purposed to build the open source blueprint for a sustainable civilization. In our opinion cultural diversity is a foundation of sustainability and our model for strategic global change is working to represent this. With this in mind, we are excited for international citizens that would like to partner or join the One Community Pioneer Team.

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International One Community Pioneer Applicants

Our Team

One Community is happy to announce P2S Engineering, Aravind Batra, and James Del Monaco to the Consulting and Partners Team specifically working on the Center of Peace. Aravind is an Electrical Engineer, LEED AP and Principal fo P2S and James is a Mechanical Engineer, LEED AP, and Sustainability Director at P2S. They will be helping us so that the Center of Peace can receive sustainable buildings highest sustainability rating: LEED Platinum Certification

You can learn more about Aravind, James, P2S and the rest of our team on our Team Page:
http://www.sustainabilitynonprofit.org/the-one-community-team/

You can learn more about the Center of Peace here: http://www.onecommunityranch.org/center-of-peace/

Our Team

Energy Efficiency and Sustainability: Open Source Energy Infrastructure Update

Energy Efficiency and Sustainability: Open Source Energy Infrastructure Update

Our next step will be establishing the necessary relationships to make ordering and building a system like this (as part of our self-sufficient and self-propagating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities strategy) as easy as possible including:

1. Establishing relationships with companies willing to A) offer discounts to consumers for new-business direct referrals through us and B) affordably drop-ship these orders anywhere in the world
2. Open source sharing videos and tutorials for the building and setup process
3. Streamlining the process as much as possible for people by expanding existing sustainability networks to create complete package ordering options wherever they don’t already exist

Global Free-sharing and Open Source Collaboration

Global Free-sharing and Open Source Collaboration

We've launched an international marketing campaign that is now yielding 9,000 new visitors a month to our SustainabilityNonProfit.org overview website. 

This is the new page we just created specifically to help international visitors to the site quickly understand who we are and who we are seeking to work with as we continue to expand our global sustainability collaborative:http://www.sustainabilitynonprofit.org/global-free-sharing-and-open-source-collaboration/

How to Start a Non Profit Organization: Open Source Sharing what One Community Filed for Ours

How to Start a Non Profit Organization: Open Source Sharing what One Community Filed for Ours


Our 501c3 non-profit application details including Bylaws, Articles of Incorporation, our actual 1023 application and more are now open source! Let's make 2013 a year of giving! Please share this if you know people who need help starting a non-profit organization.

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/how-to-start-a-non-profit-organization-what-one-community-filed/

The Wikipedia Community: Open Source Education and Free Information for All

The Wikipedia Community: Open Source Education and Free Information for All

One Community features Wikipedia as an ethosolution idea and organization!!!

Wikipedia is an open source education and information resource that has evolved the way we access, share and updateinformation as a resource. We love it as an amazing ethosolution idea because it has literally organized the information of the entire human species into a free online encyclopedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and populated/maintained by the Wikipedia community. It is funded by donations from the public, managed by an all volunteer staff, one of the top 10 most visited websites in the world, gets billions of page views monthly, and is operated under a free license so everyone can use it the way that works best for them.

Sustainability Non Profit Site Update

Sustainability Non Profit Site Update

Our marketing efforts and feedback have told us we need to create an easier way to navigate One Community and understand the magnitude of a project like this that keeps growing and growing. SustainabilityNonProfit.org is that solution. Learn more here....

Social Architecture

A life rich with personal growth, meaningful relationships and activities that build meaningful relationships, sharing, and contribution are foundations of a social architecture and culture of fulfilled living that we feel is essential to comprehensive sustainability and our our four-phase global change strategy. By dedicating time specifically to creativity, self-care, teaching and open source sharing our specialized skills and passions, and the most beautiful aspects of being alive, we integrate the things we love to do into our daily experience as an essential part of our “celebration of life philosophy”, our mission, our culture, and an infrastructure for sustainability for the complete human experience that includes emotional sustainability.

Read more here: One Community Emotional Sustainability and Social Architecture Page

Center of Peace Eco-jacuzzi and Natural Pool Design Progress Update and Pictures

Our open source and free-shared eco-jacuzzi and natural pool designs are starting to move forward. Check out the link to see some initial concept source pictures and updated details.

]Center of Peace Eco-jacuzzi and Natural Pool Design Progress Update and Pictures

Welcome Consultant Jennifer Engelmeier - Eco Spa and Pool Specialist

Welcome Consultant Jennifer Engelmeier - Eco Spa and Natural Pool Specialist

One Community welcomes eco-jacuzzi and natural pool specialist Jennifer Engelmeier to the team working on the open source plans for the Center of Peace eco-jacuzzi and natural swimming pool.

The Center of Peace Moving Forward

The Center of Peace Moving Forward

The One Community Center of Peace is moving forward. Andrew Sadera (Architect Drafter and Designer) and Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of KH Designs) have added a dining area over the industrial sized kitchen as well as a second floor in the VIP room area after making space for two ADA compliant ground floor rooms. They've also added an elevator for ADA compliance.

Check out the pictures at the link above.

Grow Your Own Vegetable Garden Organically: Tips and Tricks from the Garden Wise TV Show

Meg is a landscape architect helping us with the natural pool, eco-jacuzzi and landscaping for the Center of Peace. She is also the host of a great TV show called Garden Wise. Here is a blog we wrote about the second episode:

Grow Your Own Vegetable Garden Organically: Tips and Tricks from the Garden Wise TV Show

Free Online Schooling: The Khan Academy Online Virtual School Ethosolution

One Community features the Khan Academy as an ethosolution idea and organization. Thank you Khan Academy for making the world a better place!!!

Free Online Schooling: The Khan Academy Online Virtual School Ethosolution

Most Uplifting Songs to Live, Love, and Expand With

We created a page to thank the amazing artists who'd contributed music to our original website and it turned into a complete listing of the most uplifting songs and feel good music we've come across in the past 10-15 years of searching. Check it out if you love conscious music!

Most Uplifting Songs to Live, Love, and Expand With

Supporters of Global Change

We are happy to announce three new members of our consultants team: Doug Pratt, L'Iv, and Samuel Kiwasz!

Doug is a solar engineer helping us with our energy infrastructure, L'Iv is an architect and engineer with 40 years of experience and 

helping us with our overall planning, and Samuel is a teacher and sacred geometry specialist contributing to our evolving education program.

Click here to learn more:
Supporters of Global Change

One Community Launches Major Marketing Campaign

One Community Launches Major Marketing Campaign

We are happy to announce that the final few pieces of a major world change marketing campaign founded on a $10,000 per month grant have fallen into place! This is the culmination of months of work and preparation to significantly market One Community as a think tank creating open source blueprints and low-impact living models purposed to demonstrate large-scale sustainability and fulfilled living as self-sufficient teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built all over the world. The announcement today that our campaigns have been approved is a huge step in our mission is to open source and free-share a sustainable sustainability model that demonstrates and teaches living for The Highest Good of All.

Agriculture Sustainability and Seeds - "The Gift," A 3-Minute Film by Jean-Marc Abela

Agriculture Sustainability and Seeds - "The Gift," A 3-Minute Film by Jean-Marc Abela

This blog is about a short film made about Dan Jason, a seed farmer on the West Coast of Canada, because for 25 years he’s been sharing an important message with the world: We have lost 93% of the seed variety in the last 100 years. Having varieties in our food crops offer our bodies the various nutrients they need. Using wheat as just one example, we’ve been eating an industrialized wheat that has been modified for maximum production, not for maximum health benefits and we can now see the results in our health. But Dan grows about 20 different varieties of wheat, many of them with low gluten levels and others more resistant do pest and droughts.

The Solution to Everything

THE SOLUTION TO EVERYTHING

By now most people know that the necessary resources and technology exist to feed, house, and provide energy for every person on Earth. Self-replicating self-sufficient teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities really can address every problem on the planet starting with a path to put the necessary technology and resources where they are needed most. For this to happen a working initial teacher/demonstration solution-village with widespread appeal is being created. It will be affordable, applicable across a diversity of cultures, easily accessible, it will open source free-share what is needed so that people with average knowledge and little or no experience can duplicate it, and it will have a marketing engine capable of exposing enough people so that duplication by others will begin and exponentially expand implementation of this model around the world....

Solution Model to Create Solution Creating Models

Foundational to our solution based thinking model for creating self-propagating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities is our open source and free-sharing model. With this model we intend to redefine the sustainability industry as an open source and free-sharing industry by leading this movement and becoming the top provider of open source and free-shared information in the world within 6 months of moving onto the property. We will continuously  free-share everything we do and maintain ourselves as a permanent solution based thinking and sustainability think tank, functioning for The Highest Good of All and teaching others how to do the same.

Solution Model to Create Solution Creating Models

Together We Can Change The World

SUMMARY

Together we can change the world if we choose to. One Community sees the fastest way to facilitating this is designing, building, and free-sharing everything people need to duplicate comprehensive sustainability. The designs we are developing are meant to be replicated both modularly and as completeteacher/demonstration communities, villages, and city models that will demonstrate and teach additional groups of people how to build even more, leading to exponential expansion. We are offering non-profit leadership to accomplish this and we are interested in working with and supporting others who would like to see a world that works for The Highest Good of All too.

Click here for more information:

Together We Can Change The World

The One Community Promotional Engine

BUILDING SOMETHING PEOPLE WANT

We believe global sustainability is possible if enough people want it. To exponentially expand the audience we are creating entirely new markets for sustainability by designing, demonstrating, and aggressively marketing and open source free-sharing comprehensive sustainability models that are:

● Affordable
● Globally accessible
● Catered specifically to the 6 foundational human needs
● Created without copyrights, patents, or limitations of duplication and use
● Implementable as either modules or complete teaching/demonstration communities like ours
● Designed for duplication by normal people with average knowledge and little or no experience
● Supported with the marketing engine described below that will be capable of exposing enough people to build the necessary momentum for this model to continue on its own

We see each of these components contributing significantly to our model for helping people create self-sufficient teacher/demonstration sustainable community, village, and city models that will in-turn demonstrate and teach additional groups of people how to build even more sustainable city models, leading to exponential interest and expansion.

THE ONE COMMUNITY PROMOTIONAL ENGINE

The One Community Promotional Engine is purposed to share our ideas and increase exposure of One Community and our like-minded partners. Maximum exposure and establishing a collaborative mainstream culture interested in our expanded form of comprehensive sustainability is also, in our opinion, essential to our goal of rapid implementation of our free-shared blueprints and design details for on-going creation of additional teaching/demonstration communities, villages, and citiesaround the world. 

Click here to read more:
The One Community Promotional Engine

Vermiculture Composting Toilet Plans and How to Compost at Home

Incorporating vermiculture bins into our composting toilet plans is one way we see of building a compost bin into our human waste disposal plan that takes composting with worms indoors with a new eco friendly toilet we believe anyone will be able to duplicate. We feel there are more and more people starting to think about how to compost at home and we desire to provide an  open source blueprint as part of Pod 1 that will incorporate vermiculture bins into an eco friendly toilet model that will:

● Teach people how to make their own eco friendly toilets and compost at home
● Demonstrate indoor worm composting as an option for human waste disposal
● Include a traditional septic for people that want one and counties that need one

Details here:

Vermiculture Composting Toilet Plans and How to Compost at Home

Center of Peace Details

New architectural plans and images added here: Center of Peace Details

The Center of Peace is primarily purposed for two crucial contributions to the One Community global change strategy:

1. Offer a 5-star option at One Community so we can introduce and inspire a demographic that normally wouldn’t be interested in composting toilets, aquaponics, solar showers, and buildings constructed from dirt, tires, etc.
2. Offer big open and beautiful spaces to support and host community activities and to demonstrate a new level of sustainability by replacing individual living/social rooms, dining rooms, multi-media rooms, etc. by serving as the “grand hall” dining and living room experience for the whole community – complete with a fireplace, group dining tables, industrial size kitchen, space for live music, games, reading, etc.

Sustainable Food Production Systems Design Details

We've finally posted our swiftly evolving food infrastructure details including links to our notes Google Docs for people that are really into this like we are: http://www.onecommunityranch.org/open-source-sustainable-food-production-systems/

Sustainable Food Production Systems Design Details

Here are the three walipini food production systems we will demonstrate as Phase I of the One Community self-sustainable food production plan:

1. Walipini Greenhouses: These will be used as traditional soil growing areas to grow things we can’t grow in the other greenhouses including trees for year-round production. In support of our open source goals these greenhouses will provide the most affordable and simple option for people to duplicate.
2. Large-scale Production Aquapinis: These will be aquapinis purposed for maximum food volume production of the foods we need the most. In support of our open source goals these will demonstrate and share a model for commercial use and impoverished areas most in need of large-scale quality food production utilizing very little water.
3. Diversity and Aesthetic Aquapinis: These aquapinis are designed to demonstrate maximum food diversity, space utilization through a combination of growing methods including aquaponics, and provide a small space for just enjoying the environment. In support of our open source goals these combination aquapinis are purposed to provide a food production system that will inspire a person to want to build it in their backyard as a way to produce a volume and diversity of food for all their family and friends (and several additional families) while also creating an aesthetically pleasing place to go and sit in nature and comfortably read a book during the coldest months of winter. As we continue to design these we are exploring a combination of water features, sitting area designs, and other options to make them both functional and beautiful. We are also building these with the long-term intent to demonstrate that we can convert them into walipini permaculture environments once the higher production levels of the aquaponics are no longer needed due to permaculture and the other sustainable food production facilities incorporated into each of the Pods.

How to build a 14x14 solar cabin

For complete step-by-step directions, videos, and more project plans including how to install solar power, drill your own well, build a composting toilet and more please visit this guy's website:
http://www.simplesolarhomesteading.com

Volunteer to Help - Hurricane Sandy Resource-links Guide :: Volunteer | Donate | Help

We just created this helping with Hurricane Sandy resource guide: Resource guide to groups organizing donations, food, medical supplies, volunteers, etc. for those affected by Hurricane Sandy

Volunteer to Help - Hurricane Sandy Resource-links Guide :: Volunteer | Donate | Help

The Ethical Superstore - Patagonia

The Ethical Superstore - Patagonia

Founded in 1972, Patagonia is an ethosolution organization, producer of ethosolution products, and ethical superstore that grew from a small business into the sustainability and environmental powerhouse they now represent. Their focus is to truly make a positive impact in the world and their primary engines for doing this are providing an ethical shopping alternative through organic sportswear, organic outdoor clothing, ethical business practices, their Common Threads Initiative, and an amazing diversity of other approaches to eco-green product creation and environmental activism. While their environmental action arguabley touches in some way every environmental sector of the planet, Patagonia was one of the first companies in the world to switch to entirely organic cotton for their main consumer offering: go green products for physical lifestyles and sports like climbing, skiing, snowboarding, surfing, fly fishing, paddling, trail running and more.

International Sustainable Living Communities Development Strategy and Implementation

We believe creating successful sustainability models that will be embraced and duplicated globally by the mainstream public is maximized by our ability to engage and inspire people while simultaneously making it easy to replicate. Once we provide what is needed, we see this model duplicating rapidly. We also feel this duplication will happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most. To offer non-profit leadership and support inspiring as many people as possible, we are purposed to expanding sustainability to include fulfilled living practices and aggressively and indefinitely free-sharing and open source evolvingall aspects of an increasingly comprehensive sustainability model.

International Sustainable Living Communities Development Strategy and Implementation

One Community Industry Consultants

One Community Industry Consultants

One Community is happy to announce Andrew Sadera as our newest consultant to the project. Andrew is an architect drafter and student with a passion for sustainable living and eco-building who is helping us take the Center of Peace to the ne

xt level.

You can learn more about Andrew on our Consultants Page:http://www.sustainabilitynonprofit.org/one-community-industry-consultants/

You can learn more about the Center of Peace here:
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/center-of-peace/

Thank you Andrew for helping us create the sustainable planet we all know is possible!

Jacque Fresco's Venus Project City and Futuristic Society Designs for Optimal Living and Thriving

New Ethosolution: Jacque Fresco's Venus Project City and Futuristic Society Designs for Optimal Living and Thriving

The Venus Project is an ethosolution idea and organization for recreating the entire planet sustainably and for The Highest Good of All. Jacque Fresco, Founder and Director of The Venus Project (www.thevenusproject.com), is arguably the most prolific icon of the futurist movement with over 70 years of design work invested in city and futuristic society designs for optimal and sustainable living for the entire human species and planet. 

Jacque Fresco Venus Project and Futuristic Society Interview by LondonRealTV

Here is a blog we just completed covering Jacque Fresco's most recent video interview talking about creating a sustainable planet, meeting Einstein, Peter Joseph and the Zeitgheist movement and more

Jacque Fresco Venus Project and Futuristic Society Interview by LondonRealTV

People Development

People Development

Creating a new way to live and model for a sustainable civilization has the ability to go beyond basic survival needs and also address the needs of the human spirit. Whereas food, energy and shelter are essential to our basic existence, we believe humanity is beginning a great re-learning and expansion of previously established ideas that is opening us up to the development of new models of collaboration, cooperation, innovation, harmony, and creative expression. We think education and emotional growth are foundational as new focal points of sustainability because we as a species are shifting and collectively realizing that in order to change the world outside, we must change what is within ourselves. One Community is contributing to this Shift through models dedicated to living for The Highest Good of All and the development of people and tools, tutorials, and systems that are capable of making life easier, more rewarding, and more fulfilling for everyone by establishing duplicable living models that are sustainable and more self sufficient.

Vermiculture Composting Toilet Plans and How to Compost at Home

Vermiculture Composting Toilet Plans and How to Compost at Home

We see worm composting bin integration into eco friendly toilets as the wave of the future with tremendous benefit and application especially for third world countries struggling with waste disposal and food production. Before this can happen, however, we see the necessity for demonstrating and open source sharing a model that is affordable and easy to build and use while simultaneously meeting existing international building and health standards.

For The Highest Good of All

For The Highest Good of All

Here's a sample from this page:
"We are a “for The Highest Good of All” organization interested in working with others for The Highest Good of All too. What this means is we believe in conducting business ethically and living a genuine life of integrity and forward-thinking progress and contribution. As part of this, we also believe in the possibility to truly unite our world for the best of everyone by providing a roadmap that works for enough people. Not in a utilitarian “majority rules” or “our way is better than your way” approach, but one with the interests of all humankind in mind and a diversity of options as broad as the perspectives of the people who may want them.

While many call this overly ambitious, we consider it foundational to our organization and to be simply “best practice sustainability” because it is a commitment to living in integrity with each other as individuals, and as a species, and moving forward demonstrating a consciousness focused on what is for the best of everyone."

One Community welcomes Jessica Wienke to the Pioneer Team

One Community is super excited to welcome Jessica Wienke to the Pioneer Team! Jessica is an Organization Development and Leadership Development Specialist with a BA in Sociology and a BA in Organizational Communication. With years of corpor

ate success and training as her background, Jessica brings to the team a wealth of knowledge and management experience combined with a love of nature and dedication to creating a sustainable planet.

Welcome Jessica!!!

You can learn more about Jessica, her experience, and her path to One Community here:
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/jessica-wienke/

Mapping The Future Of Education Technology | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

Mapping The Future Of Education Technology | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

This chart maps innovations in education technology for the next few decades.

Agenda 21: Everything you need to know about the secret U.N. plot, in one comic | Grist

Agenda 21: Everything you need to know about the secret U.N. plot, in one comic | Grist

Worth a read

One Community's Open Source YouTube Education Channel is now LIVE

OpenSourceEducation - YouTube

We've launched our education YouTube channel with a whole slew of puzzle solution videos from our partners at Creative Craft House. Here's an example:http://youtu.be/6XJxsXdMyYE 

We've ordered over 100 of these puzzles and I'm going throu

gh the process of teaching my 4 year old how to solve them all as we start exploring how we'll be integrating them into our open source education program.

This channel will be where we host all the examples of our developing lesson plan library that we intend to expand to 1000s of lesson plans demonstrated with videos and detailed pages teaching everything from math, science, reading, etc. to courage, honesty, ownership language, creativity, etc.

Open Source Creation to Facilitate the Global Shift

Open Source

Forwarding free and open source information sharing as the future of frictionless innovation and collaborative global change is the next logical step in the evolving human story. Accomplishing this goal requires infrastructure specifically tailored to eliminate the financial scarcity that forces people to require compensation for their creations, and a team of individuals skilled in professional audio, video, internet, and other tool and resource creation to make it user friendly and available to everyone. With these foundations one can open the floodgates to limitless multimedia creative potential with the engine to share everything and establish a global cooperative effort without worrying about where the resources are coming from.

NodoEspiral | Dedicated to Permaculture Training and Teaching Sustainable Farming Methods | Ethosolutions.org

NodoEspiral | Dedicated to Permaculture Training and Teaching Sustainable Farming Methods | Ethosolutions.org

NodoEspiral is a company dedicated to teaching and forwarding permaculture, a method of ecological design which establishes healthy and natural systems modeled after nature. These systems are developed to create sustainable human settlements and self-perpetuating methods of agriculture as the new standard of sustainable agriculture development for human food provision.

This is a test blog post.