One Community is happy to announce P2S Engineering, Aravind Batra, and James Del Monaco to the Consulting and Partners Team specifically working on the Center of Peace. Aravind is an Electrical Engineer, LEED AP and Principal fo P2S and James is a Mechanical Engineer, LEED AP, and Sustainability Director at P2S. They will be helping us so that the Center of Peace can receive sustainable buildings highest sustainability rating: LEED Platinum Certification You can learn more about Aravind, James, P2S and the rest of our team on our Team Page: http://www.sustainabilitynonprofit.org/the-one-community-team/ You can learn more about the Center of Peace here: http://www.onecommunityranch.org/center-of-peace/
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/welcome-aravind-james-and-p2s-engineering-to-the-one-community-consultants-team/Sunday, December 30, 2012
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Energy Efficiency and Sustainability: Open Source Energy Infrastructure Update
Energy efficiency and sustainability go hand in hand and we have spent extensive time exploring the various energy options available with the following criteria in mind: 1. Sustainability (effective, durable, ethical) 2. Duplicability (can be shipped globally, affordable) 3. Sufficient to provide the foundation we need to explore a diversity of other options for expansion and in support of our open source goals
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/energy-efficiency-and-sustainability-open-source-energy-infrastructure-update/Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Global Free-sharing and Open Source Collaboration
We've launched an international marketing campaign that is now yielding 9,000 new visitors a month to our SustainabilityNonProfit.org overview website. This is the new page we just created specifically to help international visitors to the site quickly understand who we are and who we are seeking to work with as we continue to expand our global sustainability collaborative: http://www.sustainabilitynonprofit.org/global-free-sharing-and-open-source-collaboration/
http://www.sustainabilitynonprofit.org/global-free-sharing-and-open-source-collaboration/Tuesday, December 25, 2012
How to Start a Non Profit Organization: Open Source Sharing what One Community Filed for Ours
Our 501c3 non-profit application details including Bylaws, Articles of Incorporation, our actual 1023 non-profit application and more are now open source! Let's make 2013 a year of giving! Please share this if you know people who need help starting a non-profit organization. http://www.onecommunityranch.org/how-to-start-a-non-profit-organization-what-one-community-filed/
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/how-to-start-a-non-profit-organization-what-one-community-filed/Monday, December 24, 2012
Open Source and Free-shared Aquaponics/Walipini Combination Update
We’ve been busy with infrastructure design details! Here are the initial layouts and aquaponics and walipini combination designs called aquapinis. The three walipini food production systems we are designing, along with new design images, can be found at this blog update.
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/open-source-sustainable-food-systems-update/The Wikipedia Ethosolution Idea and Community: Open Source Education and Free Information for All
New One Community Ethosolution Feature: Wikipedia! The service Wikipedia offers is arguably the most incredible information service the world has ever seen, all for free online, and provided for selfless and helpful reasons without advertising, open source so anyone can contribute, and everyone has access. As one of the leaders for ideas like this, Wikipedia has already created huge positive changes in our world in its contribution to the amount, organization and ease of access, and collaborative interaction with the information we as a species have access to. On top of that, Wikipedia is a true demonstration of what happens when people work together for the good of the whole, creating an on-going, ever evolving and free online source to access all the information any of us could ever need... learn more on our page!
http://www.ethosolutions.org/the-wikipedia-community-open-source-education/Sunday, December 23, 2012
Sustainability Non Profit Site Update
Our marketing efforts and feedback have told us we need to create an easier way to navigate One Community and understand the magnitude of a project like this that keeps growing and growing. SustainabilityNonProfit.org is that solution. Learn more here....
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/sustainability-non-profit-site-update/Thursday, December 20, 2012
Center of Peace Eco-jacuzzi and Natural Pool Design Progress Update and Pictures
Our open source and free-shared eco-jacuzzi and natural pool designs are starting to move forward. Check out the link to see some initial concept source pictures and updated details.
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/center-of-peace-eco-jacuzzi-and-natural-pool-progress/Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Update on the One Community Center of Peace
The One Community Center of Peace is moving forward (see link for pictures). Andrew Sadera (Architect Drafter and Designer) and Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of KH Designs) have added a dining area over the industrial sized kitchen as well as a second floor in the VIP room area after making space for two ADA compliant ground floor rooms. They've also added an elevator for ADA compliance.
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/the-center-of-peace-moving-forward/Sunday, December 16, 2012
Home Biogas Plant Design and the Advantages of Biogas for Home Implementation and Sustainability
One Community is partnered with Hestia Home Biogas to help forward home biogas plant design and promote the advantages of biogas over fossil fuels. For those who don’t already know, biogas is virtually identical to fossil natural gas, only instead of taking 65 million years to make, it can be made every day in our own backyard using a simple biodigester that requires no moving parts, special equipment, or chemicals. As amazing as this natural energy source is, it has been greatly under-utilized in the United States with less than 100 homes benefiting from it here. Meanwhile, in China over 50 million households are presently using biogas and towns in countries like Sweden operate complete bus fleets on biogas. Take a look at the video and crowdfunding campaign on this blog :)
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/home-biogas-plant-design-and-the-advantages-of-biogasDynamic Organics: Garden Tips, Water Saving Tips, Lawn Care Tips, and More
We just completed a blog for Meg West, the landscape architect helping us with The Center of Peace and host of the quarterly sustainable landscaping program “Garden Wise.” In her second episode, “Dynamic Organics,” they focus on tips from the professionals to grow your own vegetable garden, organically maintain your lawn, tips to save water, the benefits of MULCH, and more. This is our blog post including the whole show and our summary of all the main points.
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/grow-your-own-vegetable-garden-organically-tips-and-tricks-from-the-garden-wise-tv-show/Saturday, December 15, 2012
Free Online Schooling: The Khan Academy Online Virtual School Ethosolution
Amazing free on-line education for any age! One Community features the Khan Academy free internet education source as an ethosolution idea and organization. If you have never seen a Khan Academy video, check them out as they are absolutely fascinating and informative! http://www.ethosolutions.org/free-online-schooling-the-khan-academy-ethosolution/ Thank you Khan Academy for making education interesting, free, and for your HUGE contribution to making the world a better place!!!
http://www.ethosolutions.org/free-online-schooling-the-khan-academy-ethosolution/Saturday, December 8, 2012
A Compilation of Uplifting Songs List: Happy | Conscious | Positive | Expansive
As an open source organization focused on global transformation we have a broad diversity of different projects our team is working on that extend beyond our One Community open source village and global sustainability project. The creation of a conscious music page that shares the most uplifting and positive songs we've found is one of those projects. Check it out!
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/most-uplifting-songs-to-live-love-and-expand-with/Supporters of Global Change
We are happy to announce three new members of our consultants team: Doug Pratt, L'Iv, and Samuel Kiwasz! Doug is a solar engineer helping us with our energy infrastructure, L'Iv is an architect and engineer with 40 years of experience and helping us with our overall planning, and Samuel is a teacher and sacred geometry specialist contributing to our evolving education program.
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/supporters-of-global-change/Sunday, December 2, 2012
One Community Launches Major Marketing Campaign
We are happy to announce that the final few pieces of a major world change marketing campaign founded on a $10,000 per month grant have fallen into place! This is the culmination of months of work and preparation to significantly market One Community as a think tank creating open source blueprints and low-impact living models purposed to demonstrate large-scale sustainability and fulfilled living as self-sufficient teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built all over the world. The announcement today that our campaigns have been approved is a huge step in our mission is to open source and free-share a sustainable sustainability model that demonstrates and teaches living for The Highest Good of All.
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/one-community-launches-major-marketing-campaign/One Community Welcomes New Consultants Karl and Terry
One Community is happy to announce two new Consultants to the team! Karl Harris is an Architectural Technology Graduate, Drafter and Designer who is doing a 120 hour internship with One Community and working on the Center of Peace. Terry Mock is an Urban Land Studies and Sustainable Land Development Specialist who will be consulting us on the details of the property as well as helping us with integration of a Champion Trees Program. You can learn more about both of these amazing people on our Team Page: http://www.onecommunityranch.org/the-one-community-team/ You can learn more about the property here: http://www.onecommunityranch.org/the-property/ You can learn more about the Center of Peace here: http://www.onecommunityranch.org/center-of-peace/
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/the-one-community-team/Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Agriculture Sustainability and Seeds – “The Gift,” A 3-Minute Film by Jean-Marc Abela
When it comes to agriculture sustainability, seeds is where it all started – for human civilization and for our daily bread today. Yet, so few are saving seeds these days. Many of us do not even know what the seeds of the food we eat look like. Jean-Marc Abela created a short and beautiful video to share a perspective on seeds and life itself. If you enjoy it, please help by sharing this and voting at the end of the film.
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/agriculture-sustainability-the-gift/Tuesday, November 27, 2012
The Solution to Everything - Could it be possible?
We believe a solution to everything exists. It addresses food, energy, housing, education, and all crimes associated with people not having their basic needs met and, more importantly, it is a model that will adapt as the problems of our generation change – creating new solutions for each new problem so that we can all have the opportunity to live for The Highest Good of All in peace, harmony, and collaborative co-creation of the world we all know is possible.
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/the-solution-to-everything/Friday, November 23, 2012
Self-replicating Solution Model that Creates Solution Models: One Community
By now most people know that the necessary resources and technology exist to feed, house, and provide energy for every person on Earth. Self-replicating self-sufficient teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities will provide a path to put the necessary technology and resources where they are needed most. For this to happen a working initial teacher/demonstration village with widespread appeal is being created. It will be affordable, applicable across a diversity of cultures, easily accessible, it will open source free-share what is needed so that normal people with average knowledge and little or no experience can duplicate it, and it will have a marketing engine capable of exposing enough people so that duplication by others will begin and exponentially expand implementation of this model around the world.
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/solution-based-thinking/Thursday, November 22, 2012
Together We Can Change the World
Together we can change the world. Putting action to words, One Community is a think tank and low-impact living model purposed to demonstrate large-scale sustainability and fulfilled living as the open source blueprints for sustainable teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built all over the world. Our mission is to open source and free-share a sustainable sustainability model that demonstrates and teaches living for The Highest Good of All. We have created a detailed international sustainability strategy that allows us to offer non-profit leadership, tools, and resources for creating and demonstrating not just model solutions, but a model of solutions that create additional solution-creating models everywhere.
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/together-we-can-change-the-world/Unifying and Expanding Global Sustainability Collaboratives
Creating a mutually beneficial and globally collaborative culture in business and sharing practices is, in our opinion, foundational to global sustainability and the success of our four-phase global change strategy. What we are creating will impact the entire planet for generations to come and we desire to enter into mutually beneficial relationships and aggressively open source share and collaboratively evolve these ideas in ways that we expect to continue into future generations also. This page describes the details of our current and future strategies for engaging, expanding, and ultimately unifying the global sustainability movement for The Highest Good of All.
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/collaborative-culture-in-business/Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Patagonia: Amazing Go Green Products and Ethical Shopping Plus MUCH More
Founded in 1972, Patagonia is an ethosolution organization, producer of ethosolution products, and ethical superstore that grew from a small business into the sustainability and environmental powerhouse they now represent. Their focus is to truly make a positive impact in the world and their primary engines for doing this are providing an ethical shopping alternative through organic sportswear, organic outdoor clothing, ethical business practices, their Common Threads Initiative, and an amazing diversity of other approaches to eco-green product creation and environmental activism. While their environmental action arguabley touches in some way every environmental sector of the planet, Patagonia was one of the first companies in the world to switch to entirely organic cotton for their main consumer offering: go green products for physical lifestyles and sports like climbing, skiing, snowboarding, surfing, fly fishing, paddling, trail running and more.
http://www.ethosolutions.org/the-ethical-superstore-patagonia/Sunday, October 28, 2012
International Sustainable Living Communities Development Strategy and Implementation
We believe the time for bandaids on the greatest challenges for humanity are past so we are going for nothing less that the complete transformation of our planet into something different. Our approach is education, open source availability and agressive sharing of all resources, inspiration, and demonstration through self-sufficient communities around the world led by One Community.
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/international-sustainable-living-communities-development-strategy-and-implementation/Tuesday, October 23, 2012
One Community is happy to announce Andrew Sadera as our newest drafting and architecture consultant to the One Community Project
One Community is happy to announce Andrew Sadera as our newest consultant to the project. Andrew is an architect drafter and student with a passion for sustainable living and eco-building who is helping us take the Center of Peace to the next level. You can learn more about Andrew on our Consultants Page: http://www.sustainabilitynonprofit.org/one-community-industry-consultants/ You can learn more about the Center of Peace here: http://www.onecommunityranch.org/center-of-peace/ Thank you Andrew for helping us create the sustainable planet we all know is possible!
http://www.sustainabilitynonprofit.org/one-community-industry-consultants/Jacque Fresco’s Venus Project City and Futuristic Society Designs for Optimal Living and Thriving
The Venus Project is an ethosolution idea and organization for recreating the entire planet sustainably and for The Highest Good of All. Jacque Fresco, Founder and Director of The Venus Project (www.thevenusproject.com), is arguably the most prolific icon of the futurist movement with over 70 years of design work invested in city and futuristic society designs for optimal and sustainable living for the entire human species and planet.
http://www.ethosolutions.org/jacque-frescos-venus-project-city-and-futuristic-society/Jacque Fresco Latest Interview Covering the Venus Project and Futuristic Society Interview by London Real TV
96 year old Futurist Jacque Fresco, Founder and Director of The Venus Project (www.thevenusproject.com), flew out to London for an interview with London Real TV to discuss everything from his philosophies and his vision for the future of our world to the Zeitgeist Venus Project movement. This short blog post covers the comments and questions we thought were most significant, and the Jacque Fresco quotes that answered them.
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/jacque-fresco-venus-project-interview-by-londonrealtv/Monday, October 15, 2012
Vermiculture Composting Toilet Plans and How to Compost at Home
Building a composting bin and composting with worms is nothing new; what is new is what we see as a large shift in people interested in what we call living For The Highest Good of All and comprehensive sustainability focused on zero-waste living that includes a re-examination and consideration of our current collection and processing approach to human waste disposal through collection at centralized processing centers, sterilization, and then pumping it into our global water bodies.
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/vermiculture-composting-toilet-plans-and-how-to-compost-at-home/Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Living For The Highest Good of All
We think that this Highest Good of All approach creates a win for us and for humanity no matter what. In a best-case scenario, we believe that enough people doing their best to demonstrate what is possible when we operate and create for The Highest Good of All has the potential to define a Golden Age of unity consciousness and embracing of global oneness – uniting the world enough to reach the “tipping point” of global conscientiousness necessary to provide enough solution-based thinking and best practice sustainability to positively redefine life as we know it for everyone.
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/living-for-the-highest-good-of-all/One Community Now: World Change and How We Are Existing as a Virtual Organization
One Community has been more than a 15 year process of planning and design leading up to the point we are at now where we are working on the necessary details for permitting so we can move onto the property and actually demonstrate and open source share the process of building and doing everything described on this website. Some aspects of the project are complete, many are 100s to 1000s of hours into the design process, and some are still needing to be designed almost entirely. To see everything we are working on right now, please visit our regularly updated Progress Updates Page.
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/one-community-now/Wednesday, October 3, 2012
One Community welcomes Jessica Wienke to the Pioneer Team!
One Community is super excited to welcome Jessica Wienke to the Pioneer Team! Jessica is an Organization Development and Leadership Development Specialist with a BA in Sociology and a BA in Organizational Communication. With years of corporate success and training as her background, Jessica brings to the team a wealth of knowledge and management experience combined with a love of nature and dedication to creating a sustainable planet. Welcome Jessica!!! You can learn more about Jessica, her experience, and her path to One Community here: http://www.onecommunityranch.org/jessica-wienke/
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/jessica-wienke/Saturday, September 15, 2012
One Community Welcomes 2 New Consultants to our World Changing Team
We are happy to announce that we just added two new consultants to our project: Dr. Sabol (PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies) and Michael Harbin (Mechanical Engineer). Lorenzo Zjalarre (Physicist and Energy Efficiency Expert) and and Kyle Rodgers (Direct and Face to Face Marketing Expert) are also now working as consultants to the project. Learn more about these amazing people here: http://www.sustainabilitynonprofit.org/one-community-industry-consultants/ Thank you gentlemen for helping us facilitate the shift and move our world changing project and shared vision forward!
http://www.sustainabilitynonprofit.org/one-community-industry-consultants/Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Justen Palmer joins the One Community Pioneer Team
One Community is super excited to welcome Justen Palmer as our newest One Community Pioneer! Justen is a Computer Science Engineer, Systems Architect and experienced aquaponics designer. You can learn more about Justen on his bio page! http://www.onecommunityranch.org/justen-palmer/ Welcome to the team Justen!
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/justen-palmer/JP Novak, Sustainable Energy Designer, Joins One Community Consultant Team
One Community is happy to announce JP Novak as one of our newest consultants to the project! JP is a renewable energy and power backup systems designer that has actually been helping us for over a month or so already with details for the Center of Peace. Thank you JP for all you are doing! You can learn more about JP here: http://www.onecommunityranch.org/partners/
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/partners/Saturday, August 18, 2012
30 Year Study: Organic Farming Outperforms Conventional, Chemical Farming
Based on a 30-year side-by-side trial [See full report pdf] of conventional and organic farming methods at Pennsylvania’s Rodale Institute, organic farming outperformed conventional farming in every category.
http://wakeup-world.com/2012/02/26/30-year-study-organic-farming-outperforms-conventional-chemical-farming/Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Open Source Blueprints for Sustainability
Reinventing the world as a cooperative of self-sufficient and sustainable cities through a duplicable large-scale sustainability model and open source sharing.
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/open-source-blueprint/Open Source Blueprints for Sustainability
Reinventing the world as a cooperative of self-sufficient and sustainable cities through a duplicable large-scale sustainability model and open source sharing.
http://www.onecommunityranch.org/open-source-blueprint/Friday, August 3, 2012
Start Praying for Rain - Global Warming and American Drought
The United States Department of Agriculture has declared natural disaster areas in more than 1,000 counties and 26 drought-stricken states, making it the largest natural disaster in America ever.
http://blog.imva.info/agriculture/start-praying-rainOne Community Launches Our Education YouTube Channel
We've launched our One Community Education YouTube channel where we'll be posting and hosting all of our open source lesson plan examples as we continue to develop and demonstrate them. Right now the posts are all examples of the puzzles we are building into the education program, but over time we anticipate this channel to grow to 1000's of educational videos that are all going to be linked to detailed lesson plans outlined on the main www.onecommunityranch.org website.
http://www.youtube.com/user/OpenSourceEducationGreat Permaculture Resource
NodoEspiral is a company dedicated to teaching and forwarding permaculture, a method of ecological design which establishes healthy and natural systems modeled after nature. These systems are developed to create sustainable human settlements and self-perpetuating methods of agriculture as the new standard of sustainable agriculture development for human food provision.
http://www.ethosolutions.org/nodoespiral-sustainable-agriculture-development-and-permaculture-training/Great Permaculture Resource!
NodoEspiral is a company dedicated to teaching and forwarding permaculture, a method of ecological design which establishes healthy and natural systems modeled after nature. These systems are developed to create sustainable human settlements and self-perpetuating methods of agriculture as the new standard of sustainable agriculture development for human food provision.
http://www.ethosolutions.org/nodoespiral-sustainable-agriculture-development-and-permaculture-training/NodoEspiral | Dedicated to Permaculture Training and Teaching Sustainable Farming Methods | Ethosolutions.org
NodoEspiral is a company dedicated to teaching and forwarding permaculture, a method of ecological design which establishes healthy and natural systems modeled after nature. These systems are developed to create sustainable human settlements and self-perpetuating methods of agriculture as the new standard of sustainable agriculture development for human food provision.