One Community Welcomes Amber Berg to the Pioneer Team

One Community is excited to welcome our newest Pioneer, Amber Berg, to the team. Amber has dedicated her life to healthy living and the environment and has had a similar vision to One Community for over 10 years. Her diverse background of education and experience int he health and sustainability industries include a PhD of Eco-Applied Psychology, Masters of Science in Oriental Medicine, Bachelor of Arts in Animal Behavioral Psychology degree, and she is also Licensed Acupuncturist. In addition, she minored in Business and has over 6 years experience as a property manager and 5 years experience as the Chief Operations Manager of an eco-adventure activity provider in Hawaii. She has been published in the “American Acupuncturist” journal and is a Certified EMT as well.

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/amber-berg/

Building Earth Homes: New Earthbag Construction Furniture Layout Drawing

Furniture Layout for the earthbag dome home village model. The earthbag village is the first of the seven different sustainable village models to be built because it is designed to demonstrate building earth homes as one of the most affordable living options available. It consists of sixty-four 150-200 square foot semi-subterranean earthbag hotel room styled cabanas built in pairs with a central sitting area designed for relaxation and growing a small shared garden. Like a hotel or dorm room, each dome will consist of a bed, dresser(s), and a small sitting area and desk. Communal use bathrooms and showers will be within a short walk and will integrate recycling of all water and a combination vermiculture and traditional septic eco-friendly bathroom....

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/building-earth-homes/

Ecological Sustainable Design Tool: The Sustainable Development Matrix Ethosolution

We just finished our ethosolution feature on a great ecological sustainable design tool called the Sustainable Development Matrix. What the Sustainable Development Matrix is is a comprehensive green development strategy proposed by Sustainable Land Development International (SLDI) for ecological sustainable design for business and land development best practices implementation. Read all about it on this page.

http://www.ethosolutions.org/green-development-strategy-the-sustainable-development-matrix/

Open Sourcing our Performance Management Template

This is our performance management template for conducting the monthly performance management review. There are three primary team building objectives for this template and the monthly performance reviews we conduct: 1) Individual gives feedback to the Review Facilitator regarding community performance/experience 2) Review Facilitator(s) give feedback regarding individual’s performance 3) Facilitator and Individual co-create strategy for improvement of both #1 and #2

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/performance-management-template/

One Community Open Source Internal Workings: Results Based Monitoring and Evaluation

What One Community is working on right now is arguably some of the most important developmental aspects of the entire project. We are a dedicated, organized, and professional team contributing weekly to an ever-evolving action list and seeking others excited to create this with us. The minimum anyone on this team can expect to contribute is about 10 hours a week and we have spent the last two years fine tuning how to work together for maximum effectiveness and developing a results based monitoring and evaluation process into what it now is: productive, efficient, and an ongoing foundation for collaborative team leadership skills development...

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/results-based-monitoring-and-evaluation-tangible-contribution/

Most Uplifting Songs Addition: "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" with Lyrics and Video by Elton John

Another amazing song!! "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" by Elton John is a part of our contribution to the happy uplifting songs of the Conscious Music Movement to share the most positive songs to live, love, and expand with. The original conscious music page was beginning to load too slowly due to all the videos and lyrics, so we’ve created more pages. By creating these individual pages dedicated to each inspirational and uplifting song we hope to be able to expand the Most Uplifting Songs to Live, love, and Expand With Resource Page indefinitely as a growing archive with pages that load quickly for everyone.

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/happy-uplifting-songs-can-you-feel-the-love-tonight-by-elton-john/

The Most Uplifting Music Project Addition: Amazing by One eskimO - Includes song Lyrics and Video

This page is for the song "Amazing" lyrics and video by One eskimO. It is the newest part of our contribution to the Most Uplifting Music Movement to share the most positive songs to live, love, and expand with. Enjoy this beautiful song and use the scrolling lyrics below the video to sing along!

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/most-uplifting-music-amazing-by-one-eskimo-video-and-lyrics/

The Conscious Music Project - Our Heart Chakra Selection of the Day: "All Roads" by Tina Malia

Here's today's addition to the Conscious Music Project we've launched! This is definitely one of our favorite heart chakra music selections. On a side note, Tina was actually one of the artists to contribute her music (this song) to the original One Community website. We've met her a few times and she is a truly amazing artist and person.

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/heart-chakra-music-all-roads-by-tina-malia-video-and-lyrics/

Open Sourcing How Doug Designed Our Sustainable Energy Infrastructure Solar Array Details

Open Sourcing the Design Process: One Community’s sustainable energy infrastructure is just one aspect of our blueprints for self-sufficient and self-propagating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities strategy to be built around the world. Just as we will be showcasing a diversity of eco building methodologies and alternative food production options, so too will we showcase a diversity of alternative energy methodologies ranging from traditional generators to solar, wind, and newer technologies as they become available. Our initial system to supply for the energy needs of Pod 1, our aquaponics systems, and the Center of Peace community center is a tried-and-true 283 kWh photovoltaic solar power system.

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/open-sourcing-our-photovoltaic-systems-design-process/

Betty Lenora Conscious Quotes to Inspire from her book “Sacred Women Behind Bars”

We just finished a feature of conscious quotes from the book "Sacred Women Behind Bars" written by one of our earth builder Partners, Betty Lenora. There are some real gems here if you are into great quotes! We are also putting a bunch of them to images and posting them on our inspirational fan page: http://www.facebook.com/onecommunityfans

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/betty-lenora-conscious-quotes-to-inspire-from-her-book-sacred-women-behind-bars/

Exploring the Vortex Coil by 1Stop Energies

Here is the blog we promised on the Vortex Coil Technology. If you are into the idea of free energy and advances in this field, we think this is worth a look. The first video on the page shows you how to build one yourself. The other videos are the ones we thought were most important to exploring this technology further. http://www.onecommunityranch.org/renewable-energy-or-alternative-energy-the-vortex-energy-technologies/

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/renewable-energy-or-alternative-energy-the-vortex-energy-technologies/

One Community Welcomes New Pioneer Bear Stauss to the Team

One Community is happy to welcome Bear Stauss to the Pioneer Team! Bear has a BS in Agricultural Production specializing in Ornamental Horticulture & Landscape Design/Recreation Area Management and brings years of experience as an Experienced Wildland Fire Suppression Manager ("smokejumping" out of airplanes in remote locations), Property Manager, and probably one of the most well travelled people you'll ever meet!

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/bear-stauss/

Center of Peace Eco-architecture Updates!

The Center of Peace open source eco-hub designs continue to move forward! Here are updated images of both the first and second floors as well as the natural pool and eco hot tub designs.

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/center-of-peace-eco-architecture-updates/

One Community Welcomes 1Stop Energies as Our Newest Renewable Alternative Energy Partner

One Community welcomes our newest alternative energy partners 1Stop Energies. 1Stop Energies is engaging one of the most controversial sectors of sustainability: new renewable alternative energy technology. They have an extensive selection of videos demonstrating the usefulness and effectiveness of a new Vortex Coil they have developed to “raise the efficiency of most devices on the market.” Aligning with One Community’s open source values they have also already free-shared the designs for duplication. These guys are pretty amazing with what they are working on with their Unification Coil.

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/renewable-alternative-energy-partner-1stop-energies/

“Aloha Ke Akua” by Nahko Bear and Medicine for the People Video and Lyrics

We are spreading the love and positivity!! This song is a part of our contribution to the Conscious Music Movement to share the most uplifting songs to live, love, and expand with. We’ve created this page as an addition to that page because the original conscious music page was beginning to load too slowly due to all the videos and lyrics included. By creating these individual pages dedicated to each inspirational and uplifting song we hope to be able to expand the Most Uplifting Songs to Live, love, and Expand With Resource Page indefinitely indefinitely as a growing archive and page that loads quickly for everyone.

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/aloha-ke-akua-by-nahko-bear-medicine-for-the-people-video-and-lyrics/

Book Review and Conscious Quotes from Sacred Women Behind Bars by Betty Lenora

Betty Lenora is an author, earth building instructor, sustainable living expert, and member of the One Community Consultant Team who wrote a forward in her book, Sacred Women Behind Bars, that mentions One Community! We’ve read this inspirational and beautiful book, loved it, and this post is dedicated to the multitude of conscious and inspirational quotes found within it.

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/betty-lenora-conscious-quotes-to-inspire-from-her-book-sacred-women-behind-bars/

One Community Pioneer Health Requirements

We are building a teacher/demonstration village from the ground up. Because our purpose is to demonstrate a do-it-yourself approach to building 7 different self-sustainable village models and open source and free-sharing all the details of the building process, how to do it yourself, labor hours involved, etc. etc., the Pioneer Team will be the labor force building all aspects of Phase I of One Community.

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/one-community-pioneer-health-requirements/

One Community's Healthy Living Commitment

This is a new page created to clarify our healthy living commitment and how it relates to the One Community policies on no drugs, no smoking, and alcohol.

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/one-communitys-healthy-living-policy/