Education for Life: The Subject of Math

Education for Life: The Subject of Math

New-paradigm open source and free-shared education for all ages: http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/math/ This is a non-linear approach to the complete subject of Math purposed for use as a stand-alone component or as part of the complete Education for Life Program. Please share with parents, teachers, and anyone interested in improving education. 

Time Lesson Plan

Time Lesson Plan

This page is an open source and free-shared lesson plan mindmap for teaching all educational subjects within the context and theme of "Time.":http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/time-lesson-plan/ It is purposed for stimulating creativity and more fun in learning through use in community education environments, homeschool environments, traditional schooling environments, or as a supplemental and fun addition to any education program. 

One Community Welcomes Victor Herber to the Design Team!

One Community Welcomes Victor Herber to the Design Team!

One Community is happy to welcome Victor Herber to the Design Team! Victor is a Mechanical Engineer with a background in aerospace and materials engineering. Victor is already studying what's needed and will be applying his skills and experience to the open source vermiculture eco-toilet designs: http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/earthbag-village-eco-toilets-and-eco-shower-designs/

Creating a New World Paradigm - One Community Weekly Update #43

One Community is creating a new world paradigm for The Highest Good of All. Here is the weekly progress update #43 written blog: Creating a New World Paradigm - One Community Weekly Update #43

Highest Good Education

Highest Good Education

One Community is developing the Education For Life Program as part of our approach to positive and permanent global transformation. It’s purpose is to provide open source and free-shared education resources that can be used in in homeschooling, traditional schooling, private schooling environments, or included as part of self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. The program has been developed to provide a more individualized, fun, and effective education model for all ages. All its components can be used individually or as a complete and integrated education system applicable for any age.

Give People What They Want - Change the World: One Community Weekly Update #42

Give People What They Want - Change the World: One Community Weekly Update #42

One Community weekly update #42: Creating an open source and free-shared path to positively and permanently change the world by giving people what they want.

Highest Good Society

Highest Good Society

Highest Good society is the combination of all of the elements One Community considers foundational to supporting people living for The Highest Good of All. It is a social architecture built on three things: helping each other and others, fulfilled living and emotional sustainability, and making a difference in the world by setting an example. Its purpose is forward global movement of self-propagating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities by specifically catering to the 6-foundational emotional needs with duplicable components that address the foundations of education, social injustice and inequality, crime, economics and poverty, discrimination, emotional health, and happiness.

One Community Welcomes Real 5D as Our Most Recent Partner

One Community is excited to announce our partnership with Real 5D! Real 5D turns 3D Sketchup models into walkable and explorable virtual reality environments. Learn more and access one of our village models here: 

One Community Welcomes Real 5D as Our Most Recent Partner

Creating Global Solutions - One Community Weekly Progress Update #40

Creating Global Solutions - One Community Weekly Progress Update #40

One Community feels that creating global solutions through philanthropy and humanitarianism for purely altruistic reasons isn’t working sufficiently. Our approach to addressing this is developing and demonstrating a living model that provides specific benefits most people want while simultaneously and comprehensively addressing the most pressing problems humanity is currently struggling with. By coupling solutions to these problems with what most people will consider a significantly better way of living, we create a model that pinpoints the very roots of our socio-economic challenges while teaching others how to address these challenges too. In this way, One Community is here to provide the global value and  individual value necessary to build the wide-spread mainstream support (including financial involvement) capable of positive and permanent transformation on a global scale. Here is our weekly progress update (#40) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of November 25, 2013.

One Community Time Allocation Projections

One Community Time Allocation Projections

How would time be spent differently if the traditional job and work week were replaced by a life of cooperation and collaboration for The Highest Good of Humanity and All Life on this Planet? Here are the results of years of planning and design to answer that question.

One Community Time Allocation Projections

One Community Time Allocation Projections

How would time be spent differently if the traditional job and work week were replaced by a life of cooperation and collaboration for The Highest Good of Humanity and All Life on this Planet? Here are the results of years of planning and design to answer that question.

Sustainable Civilization Building - One Community Weekly Progress Update #39

Sustainable Civilization Building - One Community Weekly Progress Update #39

Here is the One Community weekly updates blog (#38) covering our progress for the past week with detailed links, video and video timestamped index, pictures, and more: http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/sustainable-civilization-building/

We've got an amazing team creating global transformation and we are inviting anyone who'd like to help to join us. 

Contact us if you are interested.

Implementing Global Transformation - One Community Weekly Progress Update #38

Implementing Global Transformation - One Community Weekly Progress Update #38

Here is the One Community weekly updates blog (#38) covering our progress for the past week with detailed links, a (updated) video and video timestamped index, pictures, and more: http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/global-transformation/

We've got an amazing team creating global transformation and we are inviting anyone who'd like to help to join us.

Contact us if you are interested...

Tatyana Tertitsa

Tatyana Tertitsa

One Community Welcomes Tatyana Tertitsa to the Pioneer Team!

Tatyana is a Computer Programmer-analyst with a Master’s Degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Active Organic Gardener, and Experienced Natural Builder thanks to her participation in a broad diversity of hands-on natural building workshops including building with cordwood, straw bale, and cob construction. She is also knowledgeable with passive solar building design, green roof benefits, gray water systems, water gardens, solar water heating systems, and earth bag construction. 

Our Team

Our Team

One Community welcomes David Sweet to the design team! David is an architect who has worked on a diversity of huge projects including the Los Angeles Staples Center, Anchorage International Airport, and more: http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/partners/#david-sweet 

David has joined the team to lead the rest of the design development thru construction details for the complete Phase I Aquapini and Walipini Food Infrastructure: http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/aquapinis-and-walipinis/

Welcome to the team David!

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Building Open Source Sustainable Civilizations - One Community Weekly Progress Update #37

One Community is here to positively and permanently transform the world for everyone. We are bringing together the people who want to help us and creating detailed open source blueprints and a self-replicating starting point to reinvent the world as a cooperative of open source sustainable civilizations working together for The Highest Good of All. This is One Community’s weekly progress update (#37) covering our accomplishment for the week of November 4th, 2013.

Building Open Source Sustainable Civilizations - One Community Weekly Progress Update #37

The Four Stages to Achieving True Community

We believe the epitome of socioemotional development for adults is unconditional love; building True Community is a path to creating a supportive environment where it is easier to do this. We see putting aside judgment, the need to fix or change each other, and choosing to maintain an environment of people free to be themselves is a natural progression for us as an empathic civilization and collective human consciousness. One Community is designed to support this through a detailed process of seeking those with a consciousness for The Highest Good of All and our commitment to the stages of community building,ongoing 2-directional feedback, consensus governing, and Highest Good society.

The Four Stages to Achieving True Community

Transforming the Global Environment - One Community Weekly Progress Update #36

Global transformation has to start somewhere. One Community started working full time on this about 3 years ago, and weekly video blogging on our progress for the last 36 weeks. Here's our most recent update including a time stamped video, updated images, and links to all our open source progress:

Transforming the Global Environment - One Community Weekly Progress Update #36

Food Forest Open Source Hub

Purchasing research is now done (over 80 providers) for the One Community food forest and complete outdoor planting plan. Check it out because ANYONE with the space and desire to plant amazing things can use this information:

Food Forest Open Source Hub

Helping Create One Community

Check out our updated "Helping Create One Community" page:

One Community is here to create historic global change. We are interested in working with those who agree this is possible and want to help create it. This page covers the diversity of ways to participate. For simplicity we have divided the page into sections that briefly describe the ways to participate with links to the specific pages containing complete details.

Helping Create One Community

Creating a Comprehensive Solution - One Community Weekly Progress Update #35

Here is One Community's weekly progress update (#35). We are creating a comprehensive solution in the form of complete civilization infrastructure. This update includes picture updates, a detailed video weekly review, a timestamped overview of the video, and complete links for everything we've progressed on and accomplished in the past week: 

Creating a Comprehensive Solution - One Community Weekly Progress Update #35

Rabbits

Rabbits

One Community feels that modeling ethical and humane animal stewardship is essential and for The Highest Good of All in a world with nutritional needs as diverse as ours. With this goal, our team of vegetarians, vegans, and omnivores will be raising rabbits for food and pelts and using their manure for fertilizer. We approach this process with respect, gratitude, and love for these creatures and will be expanding this page with our open source collaborative efforts and experience once on the property.

Chickens

Chickens

One Community feels that modeling ethical and humane animal stewardship is essential and for The Highest Good of All in a world with nutritional needs as diverse as ours. With this goal, our team of vegetarians, vegans, and omnivores will be raising chickens for eggs, some meat, and to use their manure as fertilizer. We approach this process with respect, gratitude, and love for these creatures and will be expanding this page with our open source collaborative efforts and experience once on the property.

Sustainable World Development: Projecting Our First 5 Years of Global Contribution and Transformation

Sustainable World Development: Projecting Our First 5 Years of Global Contribution and Transformation

One Community is about moving beyond a model solution by building a solution creating model. This means a regenerative and better long-term approach to sustainable world development because One Community is not designed as just one solution, but rather as a creator of modular sustainability components and solutions. One Community and our duplicable model and free blueprints include everything from sustainable food, sustainable energy, and sustainable and duplicable eco-housing, to recreation, education, fulfilled living practices, and social architecture. While anything after five years is pure speculation, we believe that if we make each piece of One Community easy to duplicate, free to access, and well-known, people will follow our lead and start to build their own prototype infrastructures and establish a sustainable world model founded on self-sufficient teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities.

In the prophetic words of Buckminster Fuller: “In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete. That, in essence, is the higher service to which we are all being called.” This is the long-term vision for One Community and our vision for the world.

Meeting The Six Foundational Human Needs

Meeting The Six Foundational Human Needs

We believe the fastest way for our comprehensive sustainability model to become mainstream and spread globally is for it to specifically meet human needs in a way that creates appeal beyond just eco-living. Building a sustainable environment that is superior to a traditional living environment in meeting these needs is not just possible with the One Community model, it is foundational to our idea of comprehensive sustainability, creating global engagement and implementation, functioning as a teacher/demonstration model, and living for The Highest Good of All.

World-changing People - One Community Weekly Progress Update #34

World-changing People - One Community Weekly Progress Update #34

One Community is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization of world changing people taking a comprehensive approach to maximize the ease of replicating sustainable living and the number of people that can access it. Our collaborative approach engages all demographics and creates new ways to live a more fulfilled life in every way. Every component is open source and can be built modularly, which removes the barriers for duplication while we expand our global network of sharing and creating even more for The Highest Good of All. We are comprehensively and simultaneously addressing food, energy, construction, fulfilled living, adult and child education models, social architecture, sustainable and ethical business practices, and thinking and creating for The Highest Good of All because we see these thing as interconnected and essential to address as a group if a globally transformational solution is to be successful. We are doing this because we see it as a clear and viable path to positively and permanently impact life for everyone and everything on this planet. This is our weekly update blog (#34) coving our progress for the week of October 14th, 2013.

The SEGO Center Duplicable City Hub

The SEGO Center Duplicable City Hub

One Community is designing an open source duplicable city center to save resources and help model a redefinition of how people choose to live. The SEGO Center Duplicable City Hub will function as a recreation center, large-scale dining hall, large-scale laundry facility, and alternative for visitors that might not (at first) be comfortable staying in the earthbag or straw bale hand-constructed homes. As part of One Community’s duplicable teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities model, this one building will function as a revenue stream and communal-use and resource-saving replacement of individual kitchens, laundry rooms, and living rooms for all residents of One Community. This page contains the following sections related to the SEGO Center:

• Related Pages
• What is the SEGO Center Duplicable City Hub
• Why Create an Open Source Duplicable City Center
• Ways to Contribute to this Open Source City Hub
• Consultants to this Component of One Community
• The SEGO Center Open Source Portal (Collaborative resource and information hub)
• Additional Design Elements
• Summary
• FAQ

Our Team

Our Team

One Community partners with Sustainable Building and Sustainable Materials Consultant, Eric Puro: 

Eric Puro – Sustainable Builder and Sustainable Materials Consultant: Eric has 3 years of experience as a sustainable builder committed to do whatever it takes to help people transition into a more sustainable life. Inspired by nature each day, Eric seeks to find more ways to incorporate nature into people’s everyday lives. He has built an earthship in Oregon, taught cob classes over England and Portugal, built one of the most sustainable structures in Europe in Portugal (which included rammed earth walls, a thatched roof, an earthen floor, and pine tar coated rope), built low-impact indigenous style structures in the UK, and a rocket mass heater in London. Besides building, Eric is also the co-founder of ThePOOSH.org, a website that connects people who desire to learn about and build sustainable structures with projects seeking their help. Eric´s contribution to the One Community project is to provide fully sustainable building research and advanced eco-development consulting for all components of the 7 village models. For Eric there are never any problems, only solutions.

TED and TED Talks Featured as an Ethosolution

One Community just featured TED Talks, GoodSearch, and the DivaCup as ethosolutions! Don’t know what an “ethosolution” is? An ethosolution is an idea, product, organization, or cause founded upon guiding principles and ideals universally accepted as creating a better world: integrity, honesty, peace, humanitarianism, love, compassion, cooperation, collaboration, sustainability, kindness, philanthropy, etc. Anything generally accepted as being a solution to common problems of our day with a positive effect on the whole of humanity, and One Community operates an entire site dedicated to them.

Here's the direct link to the TED and TED Talks Ethosolution:

TED and TED Talks

Water Saving Shower Heads

Water Saving Shower Heads

Showers are an important part of a person’s day. In addition to the importance of healthy hygiene, for many people, a great shower is one of the highlights of daily living. For this reason we’ve done over 30 hours of research just on water saving shower heads. Our goal is to open source share our group’s experience with each of the shower heads below as part of the development of the earthbag village and their inclusion in thecommunal shower designs. People have diverse preferences for the kind of shower they like so we will be naming the individual shower stalls based on the shower head within that stall and sharing our experience with the world including:

• Durability and required maintenance of each shower head
• Function of these shower heads with electric water heaters
• Individual reviews and opinions on the pros and cons of each shower head
• Which shower heads ultimately end up being used the most and become the preferred choice for One Community

The Solution for Everything - One Community Weekly Progress Update #33

The Solution for Everything - One Community Weekly Progress Update #33

One Community is creating the solution for everything. We define this as a sustainable civilization that completely meets the needs of all people and life on this planet while regeneratively and proactively giving more than it takes. We are a Highest Good of All organization creating the open source and free-shared blueprints to define and demonstrate a civilization like this by building the starting point as One Community. One Community will be the model to spread this Highest Good civilization concept as the first of many self-sufficient and self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities purposed to help teach and share the key foundations of what is needed to simultaneously and comprehensively address all the issues our species is currently struggling with. Our comprehensive sustainability approach is doing this by providing duplicable, ethical, and Highest Good approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit business design, social architecture and fulfilled living, stewardship practices, and more. This is our weekly progress update (#33) covering our team‘s accomplishments for the week of October 7, 2013.

Creating a World that Works for Everyone

One Community is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization designing open source blueprints, tools, tutorials, and resources for building 7 complete sustainable village models. These villages are part of our 4-phase strategyfor creating solution models that create solution-creating models and we are seeking people who’d like tojoin us. We have thousands of hours already invested and completing the 3D work is one of the final steps to actually building One Community: the launch-point from which we will globally share, promote, and distribute everything we create even more as complete do-it-yourself multi-media instruction manuals and tutorials purposed for mass duplication and positively and permanently improving life on this planet for everyone and everything.

Creating a World that Works for Everyone

Earthbag Village Materials & Costs

One Community is open sourcing how to build a complete earthbag village to house over 100 people. The communal shower and vermiculture toilet materials cost details are now posted!

Earthbag Village Materials & Costs

DivaCup Brand Reusable Menstrual Cups

Menstrual cups offer a sustainable solution to the way women’s monthly flow had most commonly been handled, which was either by using disposable tampons or disposable pads. With the common and repetitive use of disposables, countless disposable tampons, pads, and their packaging are flushed and put into landfills. Most people don’t think about it and advertisers of the products even boast an “out of sight and out of mind” mentality. But the reality is these products are far from “out of sight”. They can be seen everywhere – in our landfills, washing up in our coast lines, our bathroom garbage cans, and traces of it may even be on or in your body! Not only that, but did you know menstrual cups and reusable tampons and pads:

• Are free of the additives in most disposable tampons & pads which can be harmful to the body.
• Don’t contain the polyethylene plastic in disposable pads, production of which is a pollutant.
• Are free of the by-product of the tampon bleaching process which contains a known carcinogen.
• Don’t use synthetic fiber rayon which may leave a residue on women that can lead to infection.
• Unlike disposables, reusables don’t contribute to pollution leaching into groundwater, streams, & lakes.

Learn more: DivaCup Brand Reusable Menstrual Cups

Enviroartistic Design

The existing model for the most opulent of homes brings together a group of skilled people to design a work of art that suits the desires of its future inhabitants; One Community is using the same approach but with a community focus. The end results is an entire village and city model as a work of art, from our food production structures to our homes – each piece designed to demonstrate and reflect the creativity and desires of the group while supporting our non-profit open source green community goals.

Enviroartistic Design

Core Curriculum

Open source and free-shared education - the core curriculum page is now done: http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/core-curriculum/ The goal is free education and designing a program that far exceeds traditional models without having children sit at a desk all day long. Please share with people you know who have kids. 

Core Curriculum

Blueprint for a Better World - One Community Weekly Progress Update #31

One Community is a non-profit organization creating a blueprint for a better world. This blueprint is a path to a world that is sustainably sustainable and for The Highest Good of All. It comprehensively and simultaneously addresses all of the challenges of our generation from food, energy, and housing to education, business creation, social architecture, and more. We are doing this because we see these things as connected and interdependent and this is our weekly progress update (#31) covering our accomplishments for the week of September 23, 2013.

FOOD    ●    ENERGY    ●    HOUSING    ●    EDUCATION   ●   BUSINESS   ●   SOCIETY   ●   STEWARDSHIP

Blueprint for a Better World - One Community Weekly Progress Update #31

Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting

Complete plant purchasing details for over 350 different species, many rare and/or endangered, have now been added (along with another 20 plant descriptions) to the planting and harvesting page. This open source resource is the product of hundreds of hours of research and work by our team. Check it out: 

Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting

Reinventing the World - One Community Weekly Progress Update #30

Reinventing the World - One Community Weekly Progress Update #30

One Community is here to positively and permanently reinvent the world in a way that works for everyone. We are bringing together the people who want to help us and creating detailed open source blueprints and a self-replicating starting point to make this happen. Our model simultaneously addresses all the greatest problems of our generation through a comprehensive solution model that creates additional solution creating models.