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