One Community in the Media: Two Completed Interviews

In the past week One Community founder Jae Sabol completed two interviews about One Community and this swiftly developing open source model for self-propagating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and eventually cities. The first was a radio show interview that is expected to play on PBPK 90.1 FM in Southern California on Friday the 15th of February and then again two weeks later on KKMJ 95.5 FM and KJCE 1370 AM out of Austin, Texas. The second was a Skype Video interview with Jim Hamell of The Bridge. Both interviews went great and we'll be posting links here as soon as they are available.

Amber Berg

One Community is excited to welcome our newest Pioneer, Amber Berg, to the team. Amber has dedicated her life to healthy living and the environment and has had a similar vision to One Community for over 10 years. Her diverse background of education and experience int he health and sustainability industries include a PhD of Eco-Applied Psychology, Masters of Science in Oriental Medicine, Bachelor of Arts in Animal Behavioral Psychology degree, and she is also Licensed Acupuncturist. In addition, she  minored in Business and has over 6 years experience as a property manager and 5 years experience as the Chief Operations Manager of an eco-adventure activity provider in Hawaii. She has been published in the “American Acupuncturist” journal and is a Certified EMT as well.

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT AMBER ON HER COMPLETE PIONEER BIO PAGE

Center of Peace Natural Pool and CAD Updated Images from This Week

Here are updated designs from this week for the Center or Peace. The building is coming along nicely and we look forward to producing open source building plans within the next couple months.

Learn more here:
 Center of Peace Natural Pool and CAD Updated Images from This Week

Green Development Strategy: The Triple-bottom-line Sustainable Development Matrix

We just finished our ethosolution feature on a great ecological sustainable design tool called the Sustainable Development Matrix. What the Sustainable Development Matrix is is a comprehensive green development strategy proposed by Sustainable Land Development International (SLDI) for ecological sustainable design for business and land development best practices implementation. We have featured this system as an ethosolution idea because the Sustainable Development Matrix provides a structure for a triple-bottom-line (people, planet and profit) ecological sustainable design tool that is:

• Both sustainable and holistic in its approach
• Simple and applicable to virtually any project, product, or development
• Designed with a “Pass it Forward” philosophy that is cohesive with our own open source foundation

Learn more:

 Green Development Strategy: The Triple-bottom-line Sustainable Development Matrix

Earthbag Village - One Community Pod 1

In accordance with our four-phase global change strategy, we have designed Pod 1 to demonstrate an artistic, ultra-affordable, and completely ecologically friendly and sustainable home model that is built for under $1000 per structure from materials that can be locally sourced or easily and affordably shipped anywhere in the world. The 150-200 square foot size free-standing structures design was chosen to allow most people in most counties in the US to duplicate our designs without permits. As we build our 64 structure, we will explore and demonstrate a broad diversity of artistic external and functional internal options that we will open source share to increase interest and global support for this method as a duplicable teacher/demonstration community, village, and city model that can be built affordably almost anywhere in the world.

Learn more here: Earthbag Village - One Community Pod 1

Application Form Updates are Complete!

We are happy to say that we just finished the complete update of our  One Community Application Form! We hope what we have created from our two years of interviewing experience is helpful as a usable template for other forming communities and we invite anyone interested in joining One Community to apply!

We also created this outline of our application, review, and interview process: http://www.onecommunityranch.org/one-community-review-and-interview-process/ 

On other notes, we also just started to put together the first iteration of a framework for an open source collaboration space. We should launch it in the next few weeks with our  vermiculture septic design, education program development details, and tropical dome greywater processing designs (part of Pod 1) simultaneously.

This open source collaborative space will feature...

More Info: Application Form Updates are Complete!

Performance Management Template

Performance Management Template

This new page is our monthly review process that we use to keep ourselves on track and constantly growing as a team and leadership organization.

Results Based Monitoring and Evaluation

What One Community is working on right now is arguably some of the most important developmental aspects of the entire project. We are a dedicated, organized, and professional team contributing weekly to an ever-evolving action list and seeking others excited to create this with us. The minimum anyone on this team can expect to contribute is about 10 hours a week and we have spent the last two years fine tuning how to work together for maximum effectiveness and developing a results based monitoring and evaluation process into what it now is: productive, efficient, and an ongoing foundation for collaborative team leadership skills development. This page is about:

• How this system is foundational to this phase of creation
• What makes up the minimum time investment expectations for being a Pioneer
• How we use “tangible contribution” to maintain focus and productivity on our priorities

More Info: Results Based Monitoring and Evaluation

"Can You Feel The Love Tonight" by Elton John

Another addition to the most uplifting and positive songs of all time Conscious Music Project! Any song written for a cartoon has got to be uplifting and positive, right? Well, not really but this one definitely is!


"Can You Feel The Love Tonight" by Elton John

"Amazing" by One eskimO Video and Lyrics

"Amazing" by One eskimO Video and Lyrics

This page is for the song "Amazing" lyrics and video by One eskimO. It is a part of our contribution to the Most Uplifting Music Movement to share the most positive songs to live, love, and expand with. The original conscious music page was beginning to load too slowly due to all the videos and lyrics, so we’ve created more pages. By creating these individual pages dedicated to each wonderful and uplifting song we hope to be able to expand the Most Uplifting Songs to Live, love, and Expand With Resource Page indefinitely as a growing archive with pages that load quickly for everyone.

"All Roads" by Tina Malia Video and Lyrics

Here's today's addition to the Conscious Music Project we've launched! This is definitely one of our favorite heart chakra music selections. On a side note, Tina was actually one of the artists to contribute her music (this song) to the original One Community website. We've met her a few times and she is a truly amazing artist and person.

"All Roads" by Tina Malia Video and Lyrics

Open Sourcing our Photovoltaic Systems Design Process and Other Energy Infrastructure Details

Open Sourcing our Photovoltaic Systems Design Process and Other Energy Infrastructure Details

One Community’s energy infrastructure is just one aspect of our blueprints for self-sufficient and self-propagating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities strategy to be built around the world. Just as we will be showcasing a diversity of eco building methodologies and alternative food production options, so too will we showcase a diversity of alternative energy methodologies ranging from traditional generators to solar, wind, and newer technologies as they become available. Our initial system to supply for the energy needs of Pod 1, our aquaponics systems, and the Center of Peace community center is a tried-and-true 283 kWh photovoltaic solar power system.

This blog post is to open source the process used to design this system. For complete One Community energy details including pricing, assessment of other systems, and how we intend to meet our needs before this system is up and running:

CLICK HERE TO VISIT OUR COMPLETE SUSTAINABLE ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE PAGE

Uplifting Love Songs: “All For Love” Video and Lyrics by Brian Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting

Uplifting Love Songs: “All For Love” Video and Lyrics by Brian Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting

Here's another addition from Sara to our Conscious Music Project! This one is one of our favorite uplifting love songs. As with all our pages created for this, the page includes the music video with a scrolling lyrics page below so you cansing along as you listen and watch :)

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/uplifting-love-songs-all-for-love-by-brian-adams-with-rod-stewart-and-sting/

Here is the complete list for the Conscious Music Project as it has evolved to thus far:
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/most-uplifting-songs-to-live-love-and-expand-with/

Renewable Energy or Alternative Energy: A Look at the Possibility of Vortex Energy Technologies

Here is our blog on the Vortex Coil Technology. If you are into the idea of free energy and advances in this field, we think this is worth a look. The first video on the page shows you how to build one yourself. The other videos are the ones we thought were most important to exploring this technology further.

Renewable Energy or Alternative Energy: A Look at the Possibility of Vortex Energy Technologies

Betty Lenora Conscious Quotes to Inspire from her book "Sacred Women Behind Bars"

We just finished a feature of conscious quotes from the book "Sacred Women Behind Bars" written by one of our earth builder Partners, Betty Lenora. There are some real gems here if you are into great quotes! http://www.onecommunityranch.org/betty-lenora-conscious-quotes-to-inspire-from-her-book-sacred-women-behind-bars/

We are also putting a bunch of them to images and posting them on our inspirational fan page: http://www.facebook.com/onecommunityfans

More info here: Betty Lenora Conscious Quotes to Inspire from her book "Sacred Women Behind Bars"

“A Beautiful Day” by India Arie Video and Lyrics

Here's another addition to our Conscious Music Project to feature uplifting, positive, and popular inspiring songs to "live, love, and expand with." All pages we create include the music video with a scrolling lyrics page below so you can sing along as you listen and watch :)


“A Beautiful Day” by India Arie Video and Lyrics

One Community Welcomes our Newest Pioneer: Bear Stauss

One Community is happy to welcome Bear Stauss to the Pioneer Team! Bear has a BS in Agricultural Production specializing in Ornamental Horticulture & Landscape Design/Recreation Area Management and brings years of experience as an Experienced Wildland Fire Suppression Manager ("smokejumping" out of airplanes in remote locations), Property Manager, and probably one of the most well travelled people you'll ever meet!

Learn more here: Bear Stauss

Center of Peace Eco-architecture Updates!

The Center of Peace open source eco-hub designs continue to move forward! Here are updated images of both the first and second floors as well as the natural pool and eco hot tub designs.

Center of Peace Eco-architecture Updates!

One Community Welcomes 1Stop Energies as Our Newest Renewable Alternative Energy Partner

One Community welcomes our newest alternative energy partners 1Stop Energies. 1Stop Energies is engaging one of the most controversial sectors of sustainability: new renewable alternative energy technology. They have an extensive selection of videos demonstrating the usefulness and effectiveness of a new Vortex Coil they have developed to “raise the efficiency of most devices on the market.” Aligning with One Community’s open source values they have also already free-shared the designs for duplication.  These guys are pretty amazing with what they are working on with their Unification Coil.

One Community Welcomes 1Stop Energies as Our Newest Renewable Alternative Energy Partner

“Aloha Ke Akua” by Nahko Bear and Medicine for the People Video and Lyrics

“Aloha Ke Akua” by Nahko Bear and Medicine for the People Video and Lyrics

This song is a part of our contribution to the Conscious Music Movement to share the most uplifting songs to live, love, and expand with. We’ve created this page as an addition to that page because scrolling lyrics along with the video are cool and the original conscious music page was beginning to load too slowly due to all the videos and lyrics included. By creating these individual pages dedicated to each inspirational and uplifting song we hope to be able to expand the Most Uplifting Songs to Live, love, and Expand With Resource Page indefinitely indefinitely as a growing archive and page that loads quickly for everyone.

What is The Consensus Process

What is The Consensus Process

There are two basic keys to the consensus decision making process:  learning the techniques, and holding the consciousness to work the techniques successfully. Consensus is different from other types of decision making because it emphasizes the cooperative development of a decision with group members working together rather than competing against each other.  The goal of consensus is to create a decision that is consented to by all group members through the process of GOING FOR THE HIGHEST GOOD OF ALL CONCERNED; having and holding this consciousness is foundational to the success of the consensus model.

One Community's Healthy Living Policy

One Community is a for The Highest Good of All organization purposed to demonstrate the most comprehensively sustainable combination of sustainable building systems and fulfilled living as the open source blueprint for self-sufficient teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. Because of these goals we are committed to holistically healthy lifestyles and strict adherence to all local and federal laws. This means that along with a commitment to producing our own organic and pesticide and hormone free food and diverse and emotionally supportive fulfilled lifestyle practices, we will also be maintaining a drug and smoking free environment that includes not purchasing or providing alcohol on the property.

Click here for more information including the FAQs on this topic:

One Community's Healthy Living Policy

One Community Pioneer Health Requirements

We are building a teacher/demonstration village from the ground up. Because our purpose is to demonstrate a do-it-yourself approach to building 7 different self-sustainable village models and open source and free-sharing all the details of the building process, how to do it yourself, labor hours involved, etc. etc., the Pioneer Team will be the labor force building all aspects of Phase I of One Community:

• Pod 1
• Initial Energy Infrastructure
• Aquapini Food Infrastructure
• The Center of Peace Community Hub

We are allocating for each individual 20 hours per week dedicated to the on-going physical labor that building these structures will require. In addition to this, the property is rugged, remote, and over 4,000 feet of elevation with travel from the initial living quarters to the building sites requiring steep hill climbing until we build stairs and ADA compliant pathways. If you have knee problems, hip problems, chronic back pain, neck injuries, respiratory deficiencies, etc. then the initial Pioneer Team is probably not the place for you. If, however, you are already in above average health and the idea of getting in the best shape of your life excites you, then this project is most definitely for you.

Click this links for more info including the FAQs

One Community Pioneer Health Requirements

Green Building Systems Non Profit Think Tank - One Community

One Community is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization leading the way in the creation, demonstration, and open source free-sharing of green building systems to move our entire planet to comprehensive sustainability. Our purpose is to provide everything needed for duplication of eco-sustainable infrastructure solutions, an evolved concept of sustainability that includes fulfilled living, and all other aspects of One Community as an open source village that teaches people how to create additional teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities all over the world...

Non Profit Think Tank