Solutioneering Communities - One Community Weekly Progress Update #196

Solutioneering Communities - One Community Weekly Progress Update #196
“The time has come for solutioneering communities to rise to the task of creating a global cooperative capable of creating a sustainable world for all. Open source and free-shared tools, tutorials and resources for food, energy, housing, education, Highest Good economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more are already under development to support such a cooperative. Through this open source foundation, we hope to shift global thinking and living to models of cooperation instead of competition and, for the first time in human history, a sustainable world for The Highest Good of all life. This is the December 25th, 2016 edition (#196) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

One Community Welcomes Jiming Chen to the Design Team!

One Community Welcomes Jiming Chen to the Design Team!
One Community welcomes Jiming Chen to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant! Jiming received his Bachelor of Engineering with distinction from Guangxi University in China and his Master of Architecture degree from the University of Michigan. As a One Community Volunteer, Jiming is helping with the open source and sustainable Tree House Village designs and visualizations.

Click to read Jiming’s complete bio.

Welcome to the team Jiming!

One Community Welcomes Shuna Ni to the Engineering Team

One Community Welcomes Shuna Ni to the Engineering Team
One Community welcomes Shuna Ni to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant! Shuna has her BS in Civil Engineering from Central South University, China, her MS in Structural Engineering from Tongji University, China, and her PhD in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University, Texas. As a volunteer on the One Community Team, Shuna is applying all her experience and knowledge by helping with the structural engineering details for the Duplicable City Center.

Click to read Shuna’s complete bio.

Welcome to the team Shuna!

Building Global Sustainability Hubs - One Community Weekly Progress Update #195

Building Global Sustainability Hubs - One Community Weekly Progress Update #195
“One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit creating plans for building global sustainability hubs to teach all aspects of community and sustainable living. These plans include open source and free-shared tools, tutorials and resources for food, energy, housing, education, Highest Good economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We see this as a path to a truly sustainable planet. This is the December 18th, 2016 edition (#195) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”
http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/building-global-sustainability-hubs

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives - One Community Weekly Progress Update #194

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives - One Community Weekly Progress Update #194
“One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit facilitating global eco-cooperatives through open source and free-shared tools, tutorials and resources for food, energy, housing, education, Highest Good economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All. This is the December 11th, 2016 edition (#194) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

One Community Welcomes Fernando Remolina to the Design Team!

One Community Welcomes Fernando Remolina to the Design Team!
One Community Welcomes Fernando Remolina to the Design Team! Fernando is an Industrial Engineer Specializing in Project Management. He received his certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP) in 2011 and has become an author and public speaker on project management in the ship repair industry. A very enthusiastic person who cares about the environment and strongly believes in helping create a better world and future for all, Fernando joined the One Community team to Project Manage the completion of the vermiculture bathroom designs.

Click link to read Fernando’s complete bio.
http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/one-community-welcomes-fernando-remolina-to-the-design-team/

Welcome to the team Fernando!

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone - One Community Weekly Progress Update #192

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone - One Community Weekly Progress Update #192
“Creating a planet that works for everyone is possible if enough people want it. We can change how we interact with each other and our shared environment if we choose to. One way to achieve sufficient engagement and participation is to create an open source and free-shared model that demonstrates this on a small-scale while providing a better way of living than how most people are living now. Such a model, if demonstrated as easy enough and affordable enough, will predictably spread and expand on its own. We are designing this as what we call living and creating for The Highest Good of All. This is the November 27th, 2016 edition (#192) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

Regenerative Community Building - One Community Weekly Progress Update #191 - One Community

Regenerative Community Building - One Community Weekly Progress Update #191 - One Community
“Regenerative community building is one way we as a species can begin to consciously steward our planet. Designing an open source and free-shared model for this will make it easier and more affordable. Combining the components of food, energy, and housing with sustainable and Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices can also make it a better way of living than the way most people are living now. This is the November 20th, 2016 edition (#191) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”


http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/regenerative-community-building

One Community Welcomes Aparna Tandon to the Design Team!

One Community Welcomes Aparna Tandon to the Design Team!
One Community Welcomes Aparna Tandon to the Design Team! Aparna is an architect with a bachelor’s degree in architecture from one of India’s most reputed institutes and has been engaged in a range of landscape and commercial projects ever since. She hopes to contribute to society by addressing issues that lead towards sustainable urban environments. As a One Community volunteer, Aparna is helping with landscape design and details for the Compressed Earth Block and Recycled Materials villages.

Click link to read Aparna’s complete bio.
http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/one-community-welcomes-aparna-tandon-to-the-design-team/

One Community Welcomes Ashwin Patil to the Web Design Team!

One Community Welcomes Ashwin Patil to the Web Design Team!

One Community Welcomes Ashwin Patil to the Web Design Team! Ashwin is a Web Developer and Tech Enthusiast with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering and is now pursuing his Masters in Computer Science from California State University, Chico. Ashwin is passionate about web designing and is committed to learning, which ensures that he is up-to-date with functionalities of the latest and greatest technologies in his field. With a desire to make this world a better place for everyone, and as a member of the One Community team, Ashwin is applying his skills and knowledge helping to create the new One Community search engine, improved aesthetics for all our Open Source Tutorials, and a new Homepage design.


Click to read Ashwin’s complete bio.
http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/one-community-welcomes-ashwin-patil-to-the-web-design-team/

Helping People Build Communities - One Community Weekly Progress Update #190

“One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit purposed for helping people build communities and all aspects of community and sustainable living. This includes open source and free-shared tools, tutorials and resources for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. This is the November 13th, 2016 edition (#190) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/helping-people-build-communities/

Jump Starting Global Community Building - One Community Weekly Progress Update #189

Jump Starting Global Community Building - One Community Weekly Progress Update #189

“Jumpstarting global community building is a process of making it easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrating it as attractive enough. A community model that combines food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living practices, and global stewardship practices is capable of doing this. This is the November 6th, 2016 edition (#189) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

Solutions That Create Solutions: Open Source Self-replicating Sustainable Community Creation

Solutions That Create Solutions: Open Source Self-replicating Sustainable Community Creation

One Community is happy to announce the completion of another page translated into Russian: The One Community Solutions That Create Solutions 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!

One Community Welcomes Ellen Kaspi as our Newest Satellite Member!

One Community Welcomes Ellen Kaspi as our Newest Satellite Member!

Ellen is a Progressive Educator, Mind/Body Modality Specialist, and Experienced Intentional Community Member. She is a lifelong Progressive Educator and has a BA in Physical Education and a K-12 teaching credential. Ellen earned her MA in Somatic Psychology and is a member of PEN, the Progressive Educators Network and AERO, the Alternative Education Resource Organization. She has lived on intentional communities in Northern California and Malibu and spent 2 years living on a Kibbutz in Israel.

Click to read Ellen’s complete bio.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/ellen-kaspi/

Welcome to the team Ellen!

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living - One Community Weekly Progress Update #188

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living - One Community Weekly Progress Update #188

“An open source whole-systems approach to eco-living has the potential to improve people’s quality of life while also creating a sustainable world. This is the October 30th, 2016 edition (#188) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

One Community Welcomes Jinxi Feng to the Design Team!

One Community Welcomes Jinxi Feng to the Design Team!

One Community welcomes Jinxi Feng to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant! Jinxi is an Environmental Consultant with a Masters of Environmental Management from Duke University and a B.S in Physics from Peking University, China. As a member of the One Community team, Jinxi is leading the research into an open source tutorial for choosing the most sustainable laundry options and helping to develop her work and research as a template for similar detailed tutorials for all aspects of sustainable lifestyles.

See Jinxi's full bio on the page.

Welcome to the team Jinxi!

One Community Welcomes Ashwini Ramesh to the Management Team!

One Community Welcomes Ashwini Ramesh to the Management Team!

One Community Welcomes Ashwini Ramesh to the Management Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant! A Civil Engineer by Profession, Ashwini has her BE in Civil Engineering, Master’s Degree in Water Resources Engineering, Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, and Higher Diploma in Software Engineering from India. In addition to her extensive education, Ashwini also has over 5 years professional experience in construction planning, scheduling, and monitoring of diverse projects. She is applying her outstanding knowledge and experience as a member of the One Community Team by helping as the overall Project Management of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1).

Welcome to the team Ashwini!

Open Sourcing Sustainable Villages - One Community Weekly Progress Update #187

Open Sourcing Sustainable Villages - One Community Weekly Progress Update #187

“One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit open sourcing sustainable villages. These village designs combine physical sustainability components (food, energy, and housing) with emotional sustainability components (education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices) as a model for living and creating for The Highest Good of all people and life on our planet. This is the October 23rd, 2016 edition (#187) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

Sustainable and Open Source Solutions - One Community Weekly Progress Update #186

Sustainable and Open Source Solutions - One Community Weekly Progress Update #186

“One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit creating sustainable and open source solutions for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. This is the October 16th, 2016 edition (#186) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

Building a Global Collaboration- One Community Weekly Progress Update #185

Building a Global Collaboration- One Community Weekly Progress Update #185

“One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit building a global collaboration for The Highest Good of all people and life on our planet through open source and free-shared sustainability components that include food, energy, and housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. This is the October 9th, 2016 edition (#185) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

How to Build Global Ecology - One Community Weekly Progress Update #184

How to Build Global Ecology - One Community Weekly Progress Update #184

“Mainstream understanding and involvement in how to build global ecology is essential if we are to create a sustainable planet. To achieve this, a sustainable way of living is needed that most people will consider better than how they are living now. If sustainable living like this is made easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrated as attractive enough, then it will predictably spread. One Community is open sourcing and free-sharing this for The Highest Good of all people and life on our planet. This is the October 2nd, 2016 edition (#184) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

One Community Welcomes Hamilton Mateca to the Design Team!

One Community Welcomes Hamilton Mateca to the Design Team!

One Community Welcomes Hamilton Mateca to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant! Hamilton is a space planner, drafter, and CAD operator from Angola who has been living in the United States for the past 15 years. He has an extensive Interior Design education from The Art Institute of Philadelphia as well as AutoCAD certification from Ashworth College. Hamilton’s contribution to One Community has been in the design of the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4), where he has had the chance to develop most of the foundational aspects of this building.

Click link to read Hamilton’s complete bio.

Welcome to the team Hamilton!

Creating a Global Sustainability Cooperative - One Community Weekly Progress Update #183

Creating a Global Sustainability Cooperative - One Community Weekly Progress Update #183

“One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit creating a global sustainability cooperative through open sourcing and free-sharing replicable sustainable village models. These villages are combining sustainable food, energy, and housing with Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. This is the September 25th, 2016 edition (#183) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

One Community Welcomes Jennifer Zhou to the Web Design Team

One Community Welcomes Jennifer Zhou to the Web Design Team

Jennifer is a self-taught web designer with a love for sustainability and a dedication and perseverance that has given her numerous leadership opportunities. She became the Vice President of Science Olympiad, President of The Hugs Project, and Youth Ambassador for Animal Assisted Happiness. As a member of the One Community Team, Jennifer is creating a completely new One Community website design that will better organize all our open source content, make it easier to find what people want, and look more professional.

Click below to read Jennifer’s complete bio.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/one-community-welcomes-jennifer-zhou-to-the-web-design-team/

Welcome to the team Jennifer!

Improving Life for All People Everywhere - One Community Weekly Progress Update #182

Improving Life for All People Everywhere - One Community Weekly Progress Update #182

“Creating a sustainable planet is a path to improving life for all people everywhere. An open source evolution of sustainability that combines sustainable food, energy, and housing with Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices is one way to accomplish this. This is the September 18th, 2016 edition (#182) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point- One Community Weekly Progress Update #181

How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point- One Community Weekly Progress Update #181

“How to make a global sustainability starting point: open source all aspects of a sustainable living model that most people would consider better than the way they are living now. One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit doing this for “The Highest Good of All.” This is the September 11th, 2016 edition (#181) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

Building Sustainable Villages - One Community Weekly Progress Update #180

Building Sustainable Villages - One Community Weekly Progress Update #180

“One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit open sourcing and free-sharing the complete process of building sustainable villages. This is the September 4th, 2016 edition (#180) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

Better Living through Sustainability - One Community Weekly Progress Update #179

Better Living through Sustainability - One Community Weekly Progress Update #179

“We have the ability to create better living through sustainability. If we open source and free-share a replicable model for this, we can spread the idea and sustainable lifestyle globally. The ultimate goal of doing this would be to create a fully sustainable planet capable of meeting the needs of everyone living here. This is the purpose of the all-volunteer One Community nonprofit organization. This is the August 28th, 2016 edition (#179) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

Evolving Global Sustainability - One Community Weekly Progress Update #178

Evolving Global Sustainability - One Community Weekly Progress Update #178

“It appears humanity is ready for evolving global sustainability to include approaches to education,economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. Combining these with sustainable food, energy, and housing infrastructure has the potential to create an experience of living that is far superior to how most people are living now, while also regenerating our shared ecosystem. One Community is open sourcing DIY components for this as a model for living and creating for “The Highest Good of All.” This is the August 21st, 2016 edition (#178) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

Creating a Global Solution - One Community Weekly Progress Update #177

Creating a Global Solution - One Community Weekly Progress Update #177

“Creating a global solution that simultaneously addressed humanity’s most pressing challenges is possible if we approach these challenges as both interrelated and interdependent. Open source and free-shared sustainability components that include food, energy, and housing combined with Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices is one way to accomplish this. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All. This is the August 14th, 2016 edition (#177) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

One Community welcomes Dean Scholz to the Design Team!

One Community welcomes Dean Scholz to the Design Team!

One Community Welcomes Dean Scholz the Design Team! Dean has an Associates Degree in Architectural Drafting and Design, Mechanical Drafting and Design, and 3D Modeling and Illustration. He has an additional three years experience in carpentry and furniture construction, and five years of experience in computer game modeling. As a member of the One Community Team, Dean is working on developing the Cob Village (Pod 3) designs and creating beautiful 3-D real-to-life renders of this village.

Click link to read Dean’s complete bio.

Welcome to the team Dean!

Reinventing Sustainability - One Community Weekly Progress Update #176

Reinventing Sustainability - One Community Weekly Progress Update #176

Thanks to the internet, reinventing sustainability as a primarily open source and free-shared industry is possible if enough people participate. One Community is working towards this as part of a comprehensive and replicable model for creating a sustainable planet. This is the August 7th, 2016 edition (#176) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.

One Community Welcomes Haoxuan "Hayes" Lei to the Design Team

One Community Welcomes Haoxuan "Hayes" Lei to the Design Team

One Community Welcomes Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei to the Design Team! Haoxuan is a Structural Engineer with experience in a diversity of structural engineering areas ranging from foundation to prestressed members and covering concrete to steel. Hayes is contributing his enthusiasm and skills to make a better world as a member of the One Community team working on the Duplicable City Center.

Click link to read Hayes’ complete bio.

Welcome to the team Hayes!

One Communtiy Welcomes Michael Hagler as a Satellite Member

One Communtiy Welcomes Michael Hagler as a Satellite Member

One Community welcomes Michael Hagler to the Satellite Member team! Michael is a senior graphic designer, artist, project manager and educator with over 18 years agency experience in consumer product, publishing, web, e-commerce, marketing and advertising design. He is a former design instructor and graduate of Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, and is passionate about sustainable architecture building and architectural design.

Click link to read Michael's complete bio. Welcome to the team Michael!

Facilitating Ecological Living for All - One Community Weekly Progress Update #175

Facilitating Ecological Living for All - One Community Weekly Progress Update #175

“Most people would agree that facilitating ecological living for all people, everywhere, is a good idea. We agree and are doing our part through open source and free-shared approaches to eco-living that go beyond sustainable approaches to food, energy, and housing by also including open source and Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. By combining and open sourcing all these areas together, One Community is working towards a world where ecological living will be the standard and foundation from which all living models are evolved. This is the July 31st, 2016 edition (#175) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

One Community Welcomes Dipti Dhondarkar to the Design Team

One Community Welcomes Dipti Dhondarkar to the Design Team

Dipti received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Nagpur University in India. As a One Community team member, she is applying her outstanding knowledge and background to assist with the electrical and lighting design for the Duplicable City Center.

Read Dipti's full bio here:

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/one-community-welcomes-dipti-dhondarkar-to-the-design-team/

Welcome to the team Dipti!

One Community Welcomes Guy Grossfeld to the Graphic Design Team

One Community Welcomes Guy Grossfeld to the Graphic Design Team

One Community welcomes Guy Grossfeld to the Graphic Design Team! Guy is a Graphic Designer with a Bachelor Degree in Visual Art Animation who has experience and expertise with Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop, Unity, Autodesk 3DS Max, Adobe Illustrator, graphic design, and drawing. He enjoys animes and has a passion for video games such as Final Fantasy, Zelda, and Kingdom Hearts. As a One Community volunteer, Guy is using his outstanding skills to develop our final real-to-life renders for the Highest Good Housing villages with a primary focus on the Shipping Container Village.

Read his full bio here:

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/one-community-welcomes-guy-grossfeld-to-the-graphic-design-team/

Welcome to the team Guy!

Creating a New Earth Paradigm - One Community Weekly Progress Update #174

Creating a New Earth Paradigm - One Community Weekly Progress Update #174

Creating a new earth paradigm can be accomplished if enough people participate. We can redefine "traditional living" as sustainable living and make current and unsustainable building and living methods history. One way to accelerate the process is gathering like-minded groups together to create and demonstrate open source and sustainable approaches to food, energy, and housing combined with equally conscientious approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. Combining all this is what One Community calls living and creating for The Highest Good of All. This is the July 24th, 2016 edition (#174) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.

Comprehensive Ecological Architecture - One Community Weekly Progress Update #173

Comprehensive Ecological Architecture - One Community Weekly Progress Update #173

“Humanity is capable of comprehensive ecological architecture that will regenerate our planet while meeting our needs better than traditional and non-sustainable methods. If we make these eco-methods of building and living easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough, they will spread on their own and speed the regenerative process. Engaging and sharing in the design process is what One Community calls living and creating for The Highest Good of All. This is the July 17th, 2016 edition (#173) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

Designs for a Better World - One Community Weekly Progress Update #172

Designs for a Better World - One Community Weekly Progress Update #172

“Sustainable living and eco-designs for a better world are exponentially growing in popularity. One Community is contributing to this through open source and sustainable food, energy, and housing combined with Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and stewardship practices. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All. This is the July 10, 2016 edition (#172) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

One Community Welcomes Zachary Melin to the Graphic Design Team

One Community Welcomes Zachary Melin to the Graphic Design Team

One Community welcomes Zachary Melin to the Graphic Design Team! Zachary is a videographer, graphic designer and Airman. Other areas of passion include sustainability, veganism, world travel (especially geocaching with his family), hiking, and learning new things. As a One Community team member, Zach is helping with the graphic design for the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book presentation.

Read his full bio here:

http://onecommunityglobal.org/one-community-welcomes-zachary-melin-to-the-graphic-design-team/

Welcome to the team Zachary!

The Building Blocks of Ecological Living – One Community Weekly Progress Update #170

The Building Blocks of Ecological Living – One Community Weekly Progress Update #170

“The time has come to open source the building blocks of ecological living and create a sustainable planet that meets the needs of all of humanity. The technology and ability to globally collaborate already exist, all that remains is to bring together those who share the necessary desire and willingness to do the work and build the open source foundation. One Community is doing this and we call the process living and creating for The Highest Good of All. This is the June 26th, 2016 edition (#170) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

Eco-Living and Design – One Community Weekly Progress Update #169

Eco-Living and Design – One Community Weekly Progress Update #169

“It is time for eco-living and design to progress beyond just food, energy, and housing to additionally include Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and stewardship practices. By doing this we can combine physical sustainability with emotional sustainability foundations and create a way of living that most people will consider better than how they are living now. Open sourcing and free-sharing it all will make it easy enough and affordable enough to spread on its own. This is the June 19th, 2016 edition (#169) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

How to Build a Sustainable Planet – One Community Weekly Progress Update #168

How to Build a Sustainable Planet – One Community Weekly Progress Update #168

“How to build a sustainable planet can be defined and outlined in the same manner as building a sustainable structure, business, or city. There are many more elements and steps, but a similar implementable blueprint can be created. The foundations we’ve identified and are working on as part of this blueprint are food, energy, and housing combined with Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and stewardship practices. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All. This is the June 12th, 2016 edition (#168) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

How to Make the World We Want – One Community Weekly Progress Update #167

How to Make the World We Want – One Community Weekly Progress Update #167

“Sustainability and technological ingenuity have advanced sufficiently that we now know how to make the world we want. Implementing this to demonstrate sustainable living as easier, more affordable, and a more enjoyable is the a logical step to increasing involvement and implementation. Scalable, Open source and free-shared models for food, energy, and housing combined with Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and stewardship practices are already under development. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All. This is the June 5th, 2016 edition (#167) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

Ecological Tipping Point for an Abundant Future – One Community Weekly Progress Update #166

Ecological Tipping Point for an Abundant Future – One Community Weekly Progress Update #166

“Through sustainable and open source living models, it is possible to achieve an ecological tipping point for an abundant future for all people and life on our planet. As a species we can adopt Highest Good society and conscious stewardship practices to renew and regenerate our planet in ways that also provide a better quality of living for all who participate. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All. This is the May 29th, 2016 edition (#166) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments”

A Sustainable World is Possible – One Community Weekly Progress Update #165

A Sustainable World is Possible – One Community Weekly Progress Update #165

“A sustainable world is possible if enough people want it and are willing to take action to help create it. Demonstrating a sustainable world as easier, more affordable, and a more enjoyable way of living are dependable approaches to increasing both desire and involvement. Open source and free-shared methods for sustainable food, energy, and housing combined with Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and stewardship practices will help. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All. This is the May 22nd, 2016 edition (#165) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet – One Community Weekly Progress Update #164

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet – One Community Weekly Progress Update #164

“We are caretakers of our shared planet. Whether we choose to do so consciously or not, we are each still caretakers. Hasn’t the time come for clear and open source options for those interested in caretaking for The Highest Good of All? We think it has. One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 15th, 2016 edition (#164) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

Forwarding the Evolution of Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #163

Forwarding the Evolution of Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #163

“Forwarding the evolution of sustainability can be accelerated through open source sharing models for self-sufficient eco-villages. For maximum effect, it makes sense to include within these village models approaches for Highest Good food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and stewardship practices and more. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All. This is the May 8th, 2016 edition (#163) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

One Community Welcomes Steven Paslawsky to the Graphic Design Team

One Community Welcomes Steven Paslawsky to the Graphic Design Team

One Community welcomes Steven Paslawsky to the Graphic Design Team! Steven is a graduate of the Graphic Communications program at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology located in Edmonton, Alberta. He is using his skills and experience with the Adobe Suite to help us create new and professional icons and presentations used throughout our website.

Read his full bio on this page...

Welcome to the team Steven!

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World – One Community Weekly Progress Update #162

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World – One Community Weekly Progress Update #162

“Understanding how humanity creates a sustainable world can be achieved by looking at how we’ve created the world we have now. To get to where we are now, humanity has chosen what’s easiest, most affordable, and most attractive. If we make living sustainability and for The Highest Good of All easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough, we can create a new and better paradigm the same way we created our current one. One Community’s focus is open sourcing everything needed to accomplish this. This is the May 1st, 2016 edition (#162) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

Creating an Ecological Earth – One Community Weekly Progress Update #161

Creating an Ecological Earth – One Community Weekly Progress Update #161

“Creating an ecological Earth model to regenerate our planet and meet the food, energy, housing and other needs of all people is now possible. One Community is doing our part to facilitate this through sustainable and self-sufficient teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and hubs. This is the April 24th, 2016 edition (#161) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.”

Transition Kitchen OS Hub for Remote Sustainable Village Creation

Transition Kitchen OS Hub for Remote Sustainable Village Creation

Check out the new open source guide for remote kitchen setup we’re developing for groups of 12-50+. This is one of a group of open source resources for people interested in off-grid construction. Under development are also pages covering complete recipes and food purchase until self-sufficiency is established, equipment specifics, and more.

How to Regenerate Earth – One Community Weekly Progress Update #160 - One Community

How to Regenerate Earth – One Community Weekly Progress Update #160

“How to regenerate earth: Make sustainability easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrate it as attractive enough so that it will spread on its own. Creating open source sustainable and self-sufficient teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and hubs are how One Community is doing this. This is the April 17th, 2016 edition (#160) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments."

Global Ecology Open Source Model – One Community Weekly Progress Update #159

Global Ecology Open Source Model – One Community Weekly Progress Update #159

“Creating a global ecology open source model is one path to global sustainability. By open sourcing all aspects of ecological and Highest Good living (food, energy, housing, Highest Good education, Highest Good economics, fulfilled living practices, and more), we can create a world that works for everyone for the first time in human history. This is the April 10th, 2016 edition (#159) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments."

Highest Good Creating – One Community Weekly Progress Update #158 - One Community

Highest Good Creating – One Community Weekly Progress Update #158

“Highest Good Creating: Open source sustainable food, energy, housing, Highest Good education, Highest Good economics, fulfilled living practices, and more. It’s time for living and creating for The Highest Good of All so we can solve the challenges of our generation and generations to come and meet the needs of our growing global population. This is the April 3rd, 2016 edition (#158) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments."

Global Change Progress – One Community Weekly Progress Update #157

Global Change Progress – One Community Weekly Progress Update #157

“Global change progress will happen at the speed people choose to participate. If we can demonstrate models for this that are easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough, participation will increase exponentially and they will spread on their own. Comprehensive sustainability and living and creating for The Highest Good of All can provide one viable model for this and One Community is developing such a model and open sourcing it as we do. This is the March 27th, 2016 edition (#157) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments."

Eco-Renovating Our Standards of Living – One Community Weekly Progress Update #156 - One Community

Eco-Renovating Our Standards of Living – One Community Weekly Progress Update #156

“Eco-renovating our standards of living is a path to creating a world that works for everyone. By creating a higher standard of living made possible through sustainable and Highest Good of All approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, fulfilled living practices, and Earth Stewardship, we can create and open source a living model that will predictably spread on its own. This is what One Community is doing. This is the March 20th, 2016 edition (#156) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments."

One Community Welcomes Shadi Kennedy to the Graphic Design Team!

One Community Welcomes Shadi Kennedy to the Graphic Design Team!

Shadi is an Artist and Graphic Designer with a BA in Art Practice and an MA (with Honors) in Graphic Design.  As a One Community Graphic Designer, Shadi is applying his amazing talent creating final real-to-life renders, descriptive imagery, and publication materials for the Earthbag Village, Tropical Atrium, and Duplicable City Center.

Read his full bio here:

http://onecommunityglobal.org/one-community-welcomes-shadi-kennedy-to-the-graphic-design-team/

Welcome to the team Shadi!

Global Sustainable Change – One Community Weekly Progress Update #155

Global Sustainable Change – One Community Weekly Progress Update #155

“Global sustainable change will happen once it is demonstrated as easy enough, affordable, and attractive enough. Open source and free-sharing complete sustainable villages that include food, energy, housing, education, economics, and a more fulfilled and enriching way of living is one way to facilitate this. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All. This is the March 13th, 2016 edition (#155) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments."

One Community Welcomes Brianna Johnson to the Design Team!

One Community Welcomes Brianna Johnson to the Design Team!

One Community Welcomes Brianna Johnson to the Design Team. Brianna is an Interior Architecture Student and Interior Designer and has a degree in Art History. Brianna is working with One Community to evolve the designs and is creating final renders for the Straw Bale Village and helping design the open source pipe furniture shelving for the Library/Game Room in the Duplicable City Center.

Read her full bio here:

http://onecommunityglobal.org/one-community-welcomes-brianna-johnson-to-the-design-team/

Welcome to the team Brianna!

One Community Welcomes Jessica Zynda to the Design Team!

One Community Welcomes Jessica Zynda to the Design Team!

One Community Welcomes Jessica Zynda to the Design Team! Jessica is an A.S. Computer Aided Drafter/Designer. As a One Community volunteer, Jessica is helping transfer sketches for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1)  from hand drawings into AutoCAD.

Read her full bio here:

http://onecommunityglobal.org/one-community-welcomes-jessica-zynda-to-the-design-team/

Welcome to the team Jessica!

Widespread and Lasting Sustainability Implementation – One Community Weekly Progress Update #154

Widespread and Lasting Sustainability Implementation – One Community Weekly Progress Update #154

“Widespread and lasting sustainability implementation is needed if we are to create a sustainable world. Open source and free-sharing complete sustainable villages that include food, energy, housing, education, economics, and more is one way to facilitate this. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All. This is the March 6th, 2016 edition (#154) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments."

Community-Based Eco-Resource Allocation – One Community Weekly Progress Update #153

Community-Based Eco-Resource Allocation – One Community Weekly Progress Update #153

“Community-based eco-resource allocation has the potential to create a sustainable planet for all by offering an improved quality of life through cooperative living in sustainable eco-communities. One Community is open sourcing what will be needed to create a global collaboration of these communities for The Highest Good of All. This is the February 28th, 2016 edition (#153) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments."

New-Paradigm Humanitarianism – One Community Weekly Progress Update #152 - One Community

New-Paradigm Humanitarianism – One Community Weekly Progress Update #152 - One Community

“New-paradigm humanitarianism is a model for creating a sustainable world that benefits everyone. Through sustainable and open source solutions for food, energy, housing, education, economics, fulfilled living models, Earth stewardship, and more, people can live sustainably and improve their own lives while also helping to create a better planet and life for others. One Community calls this a path to living and creating for The Highest Good of All. This is the February 21, 2016 edition (#152) of our weekly progress update detailing our team's development and accomplishments."

Global Healing and Regeneration - One Community Weekly Progress Update #151 - One Community

Global Healing and Regeneration - One Community Weekly Progress Update #151 - One Community

“Global healing and regeneration are possible if enough people want it and are willing to help create it. Open source solutions covering all areas of sustainable living (food, energy, housing, education, economics, fulfilled living models, Earth stewardship, and other sustainability foundations) can provide options for anyone to help through participation as individuals or a part of a globally collaborative team. One Community calls this a path to living and creating for The Highest Good of All. This is the February 14, 2016 edition (#151) of our weekly progress update detailing our team's development and accomplishments."

Global Healing and Regeneration - One Community Weekly Progress Update #151 - One Community

Global Healing and Regeneration - One Community Weekly Progress Update #151 - One Community

“Global healing and regeneration are possible if enough people want it and are willing to help create it. Open source solutions covering all areas of sustainable living (food, energy, housing, education, economics, fulfilled living models, Earth stewardship, and other sustainability foundations) can provide options for anyone to help through participation as individuals or a part of a globally collaborative team. One Community calls this a path to living and creating for The Highest Good of All. This is the February 14, 2016 edition (#151) of our weekly progress update detailing our team's development and accomplishments."

Making a Global Difference - One Community Weekly Progress Update #150 - One Community

Making a Global Difference - One Community Weekly Progress Update #150 - One Community

Making a global difference is something a lot of people would like to do, but don't know where to start. Open source solutions for food, energy, housing, education, economics, fulfilled living models, Earth stewardship, and other sustainability foundations can provide options for anyone to help through participation as individuals or a part of a globally collaborative team. One Community calls this a path to living and creating for The Highest Good of All. This is the February 7, 2016 edition (#150) of our weekly progress update detailing our team's development and accomplishments.