Reinventing the Sustainability Industry - One Community Weekly Progress Update #135

Reinventing the Sustainability Industry - One Community Weekly Progress Update #135

“Reinventing the sustainability industry as an open source and collaboration-focused industry will speed innovation, lower costs, improve quality, maximize producer and inventor benefits, and speed progress towards a sustainable planet for all. A truly comprehensive and holistic approach to developing the necessary foundations for this is open source sustainability solutions combining food, energy, and housing with ecocentric models for fulfilled living, education, sustainable economics and earth stewardship. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All. This is the October 25th, 2015 edition (#135) of our weekly progress update detailing our team's development and accomplishments.”

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

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

Here is another open source guide to delicious food you can grow yourself but can’t buy in the grocery store: "Endemic to Brazil, cabacui is a wild or semi-domesticated monotypic vine in the Cucurbitaceae. It produces globular green fruits resembling small watermelon, with juicy tart yellow flesh, and grows in the cerrado ecosystem with a pronounced hot dry season; experimental at the One Community site. The species is threatened with habitat loss.” Pictures, cultural considerations, planting guidelines, and a couple places to purchase are included. 

One Community Welcomes Oz Czerski to the Legal Team

One Community Welcomes Oz Czerski to the Legal Team

One Community welcomes Oz Czerski to the Legal Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant! Oz is an attorney licensed in the state of California specializing in the fields of intellectual property and entertainment law, working primarily with the musicians, artists, and film-makers of tomorrow. As a One Community team member, Oz has been a foundational consultant on the intellectual property elements of our legal documents, helped file our initial copyright and trademark documents, and also wrote the Open Source and Copyright Tutorial and Open Source and Trademarking Tutorial.

Read his full bio here:

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/one-community-welcomes-oz-czerski-to-the-legal-team/

Welcome to the team Oz!

Community-Based Eco-Infrastructure - One Community Weekly Progress Update #134

Community-Based Eco-Infrastructure - One Community Weekly Progress Update #134

“Community-based eco-infrastructure is an approach to living that is capable of simultaneously addressing global hunger, homelessness, poverty, social injustice, education, economics, and more. One Community's approach to developing the necessary foundations for this is open source sustainability solutions combining food, energy, and housing with ecocentric models for fulfilled living, education, sustainable economics and earth stewardship. This is the October 18th, 2015 edition (#134) of our weekly progress update detailing our team's development and accomplishments.”

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

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

Another open source guide to amazing food that you can’t buy in the grocery store: "Adapted to the cold dry climates of the South American Andes, arracacha is a traditional root crop with the above-ground plant and tuberous roots edible, similar to celeriac (celery). They may require frost protection in autumn, since the tubers do not begin to form until after the equinox. The leaves are similar to parsley, and vary from dark green to purple. The roots resemble stout, short carrots, with lustrous off-white skin. The interior may be white, yellow, or purple.” 

Comprehensive and Sustainable Global Regeneration - One Community Weekly Progress Update #133

Comprehensive and Sustainable Global Regeneration - One Community Weekly Progress Update #133

“Comprehensive and sustainable global regeneration will happen as soon as enough people participate. Open source sustainability solutions combining food, energy, and housing with ecocentric models for fulfilled living, education, sustainable economics and earth stewardship can help increase participation by making sustainability easier, more affordable, and demonstrating a way of living that most people will find is better than the way they are living now. Developing this way of life as self-replicating teacher/demonstration hubs is what One Community calls living and creating for The Highest Good of All. This is the October 11th, 2015 edition (#133) of our weekly progress update detailing our team's development and accomplishments.”

Off-grid-living Control, Measuring, and Automation Systems Exploration and Implementation

Off-grid-living Control, Measuring, and Automation Systems Exploration and Implementation

How useful do you think control, automation and data gathering systems are to sustainable living? Here's an open source guide we are developing that is focused on this. If you’d like to contribute to it, we’d love your input on our short survey that is also included on this page. 

Off-grid-living Control, Measuring, and Automation Systems Exploration and Implementation

Off-grid-living Control, Measuring, and Automation Systems Exploration and Implementation

How useful do you think control, automation and data gathering systems are to sustainable living? Here's an open source guide we are developing that is focused on this. If you’d like to contribute to it, we’d love your input on our short survey that is also included on this page. 

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

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

Another completed open source guide to foods you can’t buy in the grocery store: "Maca is a traditional root crop from high elevations in the Andes mountains and adapted to cold dry climates. It requires a 7-9 month growing season, so autumn/winter protection is essential. Maca varies greatly in root size and shape. Native Peruvians traditionally have utilized maca since pre-Incan times for both nutritional and medicinal purposes…” The page includes cultural considerations, planting guidelines, where to buy and more. 

Facilitating a Highest Good Society Model - One Community Weekly Progress Update #132

Facilitating a Highest Good Society Model - One Community Weekly Progress Update #132

“Facilitating a Highest Good society model built on sustainable infrastructure, a more fulfilling and enjoyable way of living, and sharing both these with others can positively transform our planet for everyone. 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 is one way to accomplish this. Putting these together as self-replicating teacher/demonstration hubs is the "Highest Good of All" approach One Community is committed to. This is the October 4th, 2015 edition (#132) of our weekly progress update detailing our team's development and accomplishments.”

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

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



Grow food you can’t buy in the grocery store. Here’s an open source guide to one option: Ahipa. 

Ahipa, also called the Andean bean or Andean yam bean, is another of a complex of traditional roots crops from high elevations in the Andes mountains. Ahipa is closely related to the better-known jicama, but grows in much harsher conditions. It is delicious raw but can be cooked too. It’s great as a stand-alone snack, or chopped up and added to salads. The ahipa tubers grow sweeter with time, after being harvested, so allowing them to sit for a day or two before you eat them will make them taste sweeter, as the starch in the tuber breaks down into sugars. The tubers can lose water and become shriveled, though, so don’t let them sit for too long. It can also be processed like Gari, a type of  flour, but beware the seeds, leaves and stems contain toxic oils and are not edible.