350 Diverse Plant Purchasing Details Now Added to the One Community Open Source Food Page

Complete plant purchasing details for over 350 different species, many rare and/or endangered, have now been added (along with another 20 plant descriptions) to the planting and harvesting page. This open source resource is the product of hundreds of hours of research and work by our team. Check it out: http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/aquapini-and-walipini-planting-and-harvesting/ Also, if you love what we are doing and want to help us, we're seeking a major funder, sharing our funding page with the right person could be the single act that makes all the difference: http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/funding/ We're also always looking for those that might want to join our world changing team. Details are here: http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/membership/ ~ One Community

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/aquapini-and-walipini-planting-and-harvesting/

This is our weekly progress update (#30) covering our accomplishments for the week of September 16, 2013.

One Community is here to positively and permanently reinvent the world in a way that works for everyone. We are bringing together the people who want to help us and creating detailed open source blueprints and a self-replicating starting point to make this happen. Our model simultaneously addresses all the greatest problems of our generation through a comprehensive solution model that creates additional solution creating models. This is our weekly progress update (#30) covering our accomplishments for the week of September 16, 2013.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/reinventing-the-world/

Ultra-sustainable Food Forest Creation and Open Source Hub

A food forest is, as the name implies, a forest of food. The goal of this gardening and land management system is to mimic a woodland ecosystem with companion planting of edible trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals grown in a succession of layers. Fruit and nut trees are usually the canopy/overstory, while below is the understory of berry shrubs and edible ground plantings. Beneficial plants, or “companions,” are included to attract insects for natural pest management, as soil amenders providing nitrogen and mulch, or for other benefits. Working together, the plants form a forest garden ecosystem that functions long-term to increase water retention and infiltration, protect the soils from heavy rainfall events, establish windbreaks, increases soil fertility, expand wildlife habitat, and provide food, building and craft materials, medicines, and more.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/food-forest/

We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For – One Community’s Weekly Progress Update #29

Here is One Community's weekly progress update (#29) towards creating a positive and permanent global transformation for everyone. This update includes picture updates and complete links for everything we've progressed on and accomplished in the past week.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/we-are-the-ones-we-have-been-waiting-for/

Consensus Decision Making for Groups of 200+

This page is copied almost verbatim and with permission from Jack Reed’s book, The Next Evolution. It describes the consensus process and what is involved when deciding to work together to reach a consensus. This page is about how to perform consensus when working towards groups of 200+ people; you can also visit our Consensus Decision Making Page to see how we will be phasing in this model.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/consensus-with-large-groups/

Creating Global Transformation - Details of the One Community Strategy

One Community is purposed to create historic, permanent, and positive global transformation for The Highest Good of All. This new page describes how this is possible. We seek collaboration with those who agree this is needed and can be done.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/methodology

Walipini #1: Frost-free Arid Zone

Complete plant details are now posted for One Community's Walipini #1. This house is part of our food infrastructure and our botanical garden model. Of the 26 species designated for Walipini 1, five are classified as endangered and nine are classified as vulnerable. Walipini #1 will be the 4th house we build and will demonstrate a frost-free arid zone. The temperature range will be maintained between 60-100 F with humidity ranging between 50-90%.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/aquapini-and-walipini-planting-and-harvesting/#walipini1harvest

Stewards of the Earth - One Community Weekly Update #28

Here is One Community's weekly progress update (#28) towards creating a sustainable planet for everyone. This update includes picture updates and complete links for everything we've progressed on and accomplished in the past week.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/stewards-of-the-earth-creating/

One Community Welcomes the Seed Savers Exchange as Our Newest Partners

One Community is happy to welcome the Seed Savers Exchange as our newest partners. http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/one-community-welcomes-the-seed-savers-exchange-as-our-newest-partners/ The Seed Savers Exchange is a non-profit, 501(c)(3), member supported organization that saves and shares the heirloom seeds of our garden heritage, forming a living legacy that can be passed down through generations. Learn more about the Seed Savers Exchange on their website: http://www.seedsavers.org/ Learn more about the complete One Community team here: http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/team/ Learn more about the One Community open source food infrastructure here: http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/highest-good-food/ Welcome Seed Savers Exchange to the team!

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/one-community-welcomes-the-seed-savers-exchange-as-our-newest-partners/

One Community Welcomes Devin Porter to the Team!

One Community welcomes 3D Graphics Design Specialist Devin Porter to the team! Devin has 20 years of experience in art and design. To aid in his ability to turn 2-dimensional ideas into 3-dimensional masterpieces, Devin additionally has 8 years of wood working experience, 4 years of metal working experience, and several years of framing, electrical, and mechanical experience. Combining this with 10 years of photoshop experience, Devin has evolved this combination of skills into an ability to use Sketchup to create lifelike and professional renderings of virtually anything. Sharing One Community’s desire to create a new and better world, Devin’s passions include architecture, sustainable living/design, astrology and planetary science, physics and magnetic mechanical engineering, and time in nature. Snowboarding, camping, and days at the river are Devin’s most potent activities to clear his head and feel connected to the world on a deeper level.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/team/#devin-porter

Creating a Comprehensive Global Solution – One Community Weekly Update #27

One Community is a comprehensive global solution. One Community’s open source project-launch blueprinting strategy and the fact that we are open sourcing and addressing ALL elements of society simultaneously are a combination unique to our organization. Together these will help others duplicate what we do and create self-propagating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of positively impacting every single person on this planet within one generation. Here is our progress update (#27) for the week of August 26, 2013.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/comprehensive-global-solution/

One Community Open Source Straw Bale Village Design

The straw bale housing teacher/demonstration community, village, and city model is purposed for open source project-launch blueprinting and building modularly expandable sustainable housing. Using the double torus design we will build the first few units to completion to show what is possible on the small scale, and then add onto those units to demonstrate how this style of communal housing could be expanded as a community or village need for housing expands, adding additional units as necessary while simultaneously improving energy efficiency and creating a growing space protected by new units. The double torus design also allows for easy modification of the internal structure at a later time to connect or separate rooms based on community resident/family needs. The straw bale village model will become an option for ownership and long-term residence for the Pioneers that have been with the project from day 1. When complete, Pod 2 will be the largest straw bale construction in the worl

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/straw-bale-village/

Earthbag Village Materials Costs

The purpose of our organization is to make the building of self-propagating self-sufficient teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities as easy as possible. It is also to demonstrate food, housing, and energy for 100 people can be built for less than the cost of supplying these things for just 10 people in the current system. Clearly defining exactly what the materials costs are for duplication of every component of the earthbag village is an important part of this. This page is the results of our research and it will evolve with even more details as we build the earthbag village and identify through our experience the best materials and partners that can reduce the price for acquiring all needed tools and equipment. We will open source these details here as they evolve.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/earthbag-village-materials-costs/

Creating Global Sustainability for The Highest Good of All: Open Source | Non-profit | Self-replicating

Redesigned and simplified page: "One Community is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that is taking a comprehensive approach to maximize the ease of replicating sustainable living and the number of people that can access it. Our collaborative approach engages all demographics and creates new ways to live a more fulfilled life in every way. Every component is open source and can be built modularly, which removes the barriers for duplication while we expand our global network of sharing and creating even more for The Highest Good of All. We are comprehensively and simultaneously addressing food, energy, construction, fulfilled living, adult and child education models, social architecture, sustainable and ethical business practices, and thinking and creating for The Highest Good of All because we see these thing as interconnected and essential to address as a group if a globally transformational solution is to be successful."

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/non-profit/

Mini-greenhouse for Under $50? The Open Source Hoop House Page is Now Up!

A hoop house (also called a polytunnel, hoop greenhouse, or hoophouse) is a greenhouse with a plastic roof wrapped over a flexible structure of hoops. The interior heats up because incoming solar radiation from the sun warms plants, soil, and other things inside the building faster than heat can escape the structure. The large hoops or bows can be made of metal, plastic pipe or even wood. The heavy greenhouse plastic “skin” is then stretched tight over the hoops and fastened to baseboards with strips of wood, metal, wire or even used irrigation tape and staples. Hoop houses are ultra-affordable, fast and cheap to build, and can extend a growing season by a couple month on each end. Click here for an extensive article on hoop houses if you’d like to read more.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/hoop-houses/