Transformational Eco-Human Progress - One Community Weekly Progress Update #131

Transformational Eco-Human Progress - One Community Weekly Progress Update #131

“Transformational eco-human progress is the movement of humanity towards the ecological mindset capable of creating a sustainable world. One Community is forwarding this movement through open source solutions combining sustainable models for food, energy, and housing with ecocentric models for fulfilled living, education, sustainable economics and earth stewardship. Putting these together as self-replicating teacher/demonstration hubs is what One Community calls living and creating for The Highest Good of All. This is the September 27th, 2015 edition (#131) of our weekly progress update detailing our team's development and accomplishments.”

Mauka: Cultural Considerations | Planting Guidelines | Where to Buy | More

Mauka: Cultural Considerations | Planting Guidelines | Where to Buy | More

Another open source guide to foods you can grow yourself, but can’t buy in the grocery store: Mauka is a high-elevation extremely hardy crop used for its edible leaves, stems and tubers. It is tolerant of cold and windy exposed sites, can be intercropped with corn, and produces tubers that can be left in the ground from year to year. Said to be the rarest of the group known as the ‘lost crops of the Incas,’ Mauka has only been rediscovered in the past five decades. This open source guide includes cultural considerations, planting guidelines, and more. 

Sustainable Eco-Community Replication - One Community Weekly Progress Update #130

Sustainable Eco-Community Replication - One Community Weekly Progress Update #130

“Global sustainable eco-community replication will happen the moment it is demonstrated as easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to gain mainstream support. Open source solutions combining sustainable models for food, energy, and housing that allow for new models of fulfilled living, education, sustainable economics and earth stewardship could be the key. Putting these together as self-replicating teacher/demonstration hubs is what One Community calls living and creating for The Highest Good of All. This is the September 20th, 2015 edition (#130) of our weekly progress update detailing our team's development and accomplishments”

Mashua: Cultural Considerations | Planting Guidelines | Where to Buy | More

Mashua: Cultural Considerations | Planting Guidelines | Where to Buy | More

Want to grow rare and delicious foods? Here is an open source mashua hub to help you: Mashua is one of a complex of traditional root crops from high elevations in the Andes mountains. They are adapted to cold dry climates but may require frost protection in the autumn, since the tubers do not begin to form until after the equinox. The tubers are usually pale, white, or yellow and sometimes striped with purple or red. They are rather peppery in flavor when raw, but this quality disappears when cooked.

Creating a More Sustainable Lifestyle - One Community Weekly Progress Update #129

Creating a More Sustainable Lifestyle - One Community Weekly Progress Update #129

“Creating a more sustainable lifestyle is something most people feel would be beneficial both individually and for the planet. Interestingly enough, most people think of a "sustainable lifestyle" as primarily sustainable food, energy, and housing. We feel adding fulfilled living, Education, sustainable economics and earth stewardship is helpful also, and we're open sourcing solutions for all 6 of these areas to make implementation easier. Globally collaborating and open sourcing these areas is what we call living and creating for The Highest Good of All. This is the September 13th, 2015 edition (#129) of our weekly progress update detailing our team's development and accomplishments.”

Quality and Quantity Lesson Plan - One Community

Quality and Quantity Lesson Plan - One Community

Quality and quantity, quality versus quantity, do you have an opinion on these? Here is a new open source lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to any learning level, in any learning environment through an exploration of the concepts of Quality and Quantity. It is part of the open source Highest Good education program designed to build an educational model that incorporates concepts of character, values, and deeper-level thinking through globally collaborative and individually adaptable lesson plans like this one.

Cassabananas: Cultural Considerations | Planting Guidelines | Where to Buy | More

Cassabananas: Cultural Considerations | Planting Guidelines | Where to Buy | More

New open source rare-food guide for cassabanana: "The cassabanana is a short-lived perennial vine that can reach 30 feet. The young stems are hirsute, climbing by tendrils, and have adhesive discs that adhere to any smooth surface. Leaves on long petioles are 4-12 cm., heart-shaped and orbicular, with wavy or toothed margins growing to 30 cm length and width. Flowers are solitary, bell-shaped, and 5 cm in diameter. Cassabanana is grown for it’s large melon-like fruits, which are juicy and very fragrant. The fruits are eaten like summer squash or cucumbers when immature, or as a dessert fruit when ripe. They are also juiced or preserved."

Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting Open Source Details for Duplication

Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting Open Source Details for Duplication

Open source Tropical Atrium planting and harvesting hub with planting maps, planting guidelines, cultural considerations, cost analysis and more.

Открытый Источник для Устойчивый Планеты

Open Source Page Translated to Russian

One Community is happy to announce the completion of another page translated into Russian: The One Community Open Source Page! If you want to see why it is helpful to actually translate these, read this page on Google Chrome and use the translation function to translate it back to English.

Thank you Vasily Biserov for your great work completing this!

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/open-source-translated-to-russian/

Жить Выполненны как Коренная Ценность и Дорога к Глобальной Трансформации

Fulfilled Living as a Core Value Translated to Russian 

One Community is happy to announce the completion of another page translated into Russian: The One Community Fulfilled Living Page! If you want to see why it is helpful to actually translate these, read this page on Google Chrome and use the translation function to translate it back to English.

Thank you Vasily Biserov for your great work completing this!

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/fulfilled-living-russian-translation/

One Community Thanks Henrique For Being on the Electrical Team

One Community Thanks Henrique For Being on the Electrical Team

One Community is happy to feature and thank Henrique Ferreira as our most recent member of the Electrical Team. Henrique is a Bachelors of Science and Technology and 4th-year Electrical Engineering Student from Brazil. He spent the last two months

working with One Community on the Control Systems and lighting design for the Duplicable City Center and the 7 Sustainable Village Models.

Read his complete bio here:

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/one-community-thanks-henrique-ferreira-for-being-a-part-of-the-electrical-team/

Thank you Henrique!

Replicable Solutions for Society - One Community Weekly Progress Update #128

Replicable Solutions for Society - One Community Weekly Progress Update #128

“A world of people living and creating for The Highest Good of All is possible if replicable solutions for society can be created that sustainably meets people's needs. From this place of abundance and "having enough," people will have the comfort and resources to help others. One Community is forwarding this movement through open source and free-shared tools, tutorials, and DIY resources addressing all aspects of sustainable and Highest Good living. This is the September 6th, 2015 edition (#128) of our weekly progress update detailing our team's development and accomplishments.”

Achochas: Cultural Considerations | Planting Guidelines | Where to Buy | More

Achochas: Cultural Considerations | Planting Guidelines | Where to Buy | More

New open source DIY rare food growing resource: "Achocha, also called caigua or the Bolivian Cucumber, is a vining species of cucurbit native to frost-free inter-Andean valleys from Colombia to Bolivia. The pointed fruits are eaten raw or cooked, and their hollow center is often stuffed with a mixture of grains, meat and cheese. The fruits have been shown to lower blood pressure and reduce cholesterol when eaten on a regular basis."

One Community Thanks Maurilio For Being on the Engineering Team

One Community Thanks Maurilio For Being on the Engineering Team

One Community is happy to feature and thank Maurilio Souza as our most recent member of the Engineering Team. Maurilio is a 4th-year Civil Engineering Student from Brazil. He spent the last two months here in California working on structural calculations and AutoCAD details for the Duplicable City Center.

Read his complete bio here:

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/one-community-thanks-maurilio-souza-for-being-a-part-of-the-engineering-team/

Thank you Maurilio!

Open Source One Community Tropical Atrium Portal

Open Source One Community Tropical Atrium Portal

"The goal of the open source Tropical Atrium is to create an aesthetically pleasing and multi-functional center for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). It is designed to grow food, re-use greywater and recycle heat from the Earthbag Village showers, and provide a beautiful and energy efficient year-round recreation space."

One Community Thanks Matheus For Being on the Software Team

One Community Thanks Matheus For Being on the Software Team

One Community is happy to feature and thank Matheus Augusto de Oliveira as our most recent member of the Graphic Design Team. Matheus is student from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro who enrolled in the Brazilian Scientific Mobility Program at the Florida Institute of Technology. He spent the last two months working in here California on programming, testing, and debugging the code for Highest Good Network web application.

Read his complete bio here:

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/one-community-thanks-matheus-augusto-de-oliveira-for-being-a-part-of-the-software-development-team/

Thank you Matheus!

One Community Thanks Gilberto For Being on the Graphics Team

One Community Thanks Gilberto For Being on the Graphics Team

One Community is happy to feature and thank Gilberto Martini de Oliveira as our most recent member of the Graphic Design Team. Gilberto spent the last two months creating interactive 3-D designs for the Tropical Atrium, Earthbag Village (Pod 1) domes, Communal Showers, 3-dome cluster for the crowdfunding campaign, and the Tree House Village.

Read his complete bio here:

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/one-community-thanks-gilberto-martini-de-oliveira-for-being-a-part-of-the-graphic-design-team/

Thank you Gilberto!