Building a New World One Open Source Piece at a Time: One Community Progress Update #22

We have the ability to build a new world that works for everyone. In our opinion, this requires a comprehensive readdressing of the foundations of how we live and what is possible. One Community is a non-profit organization creating this for The Highest Good of All and this is our progress update for the week of 7/22/2013.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/build-a-new-world-that-works-for-everyone/

Fulfilled Living through Sustainable Communities

Why create sustainable communities, villages, and cities? It seems the most important reason is because it can provide a way of life that most people would consider more enriching and fulfilling than current models. Here is just one example of what this may look like and how to organize it.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/fulfilled-living/

One Community Welcomes Western States Design to Our Eco-Partners Team

Passion, innovation, and a dedication to excellence are the hallmarks of Western State Design. Since 1974, WSD has had an unwavering commitment to both existing and new customers, and, with its total solution approach, it has become one of the world’s largest companies in the laundry industry. WSD shares One Community’s commitment to sustainability and to saving resources and helping laundry owners use the most effective and efficient machines. WSD has designed One Community’s laundry facility for the SEGO Center duplicable city hub purposed to service over 300 people. As One Community partners they have the necessary global distribution and willingness to helping us to the best of their ability to open source complete installation and maintenance for this laundry system so that together we can help others around the world to implement the same energy efficient and effective system.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/partners/#wsd

How to Create a Better World – One Community Progress Update #21

One Community is a solution creating solution purposed to duplicate itself. The solution we are creating is a model for how to create a better world. By now most people know that the necessary resources and technology exist to feed, house, and provide energy for every person on Earth. These solutions, however, are currently not available to most people. To solve this problem we are building the first of a global collaborative of self-sufficient teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will provide a path to put the necessary technology and resources where they are needed most. Models such as this that provide a more appealing and affordable lifestyle have the potential to gain mainstream interest and support and become self-replicating, multiplying exponentially and transforming life on this planet as we know it. This is our progress update and accomplishments for the week of July 15, 2013.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/how-to-create-a-better-world-together/

One Community Global Sustainability Strategy and Long-term Vision

We have finished the revision and simplification of our 4-phase Global Sustainability Strategy page: http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/global-sustainability-strategy/ Give it a read and share it if you agree with what we are creating and would like to help us out. A planet that works for everyone is possible. This is what our team is working so hard to create and anyone and everyone is invited to help either by just liking and sharing what we keep putting out or by getting involved as a Partner, Consultant, or Pioneer.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/global-sustainability-strategy/

Evolving Sustainability to become Sustainable Sustainability - The how's and whys

The ultimate purpose of creating sustainable sustainability is to create an environment where living a happy life is realized as the end in itself. We believe this is most easily achieved through an evolution of sustainability that demonstrates sustainable infrastructure as a path to a more fulfilled way of living. Coming together with a group consciousness focused on The Highest Good of All, we are building One Community as a living example of this so we can lead a global cooperative of teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities helping to spread and share this idea of sustainable sustainability across the world.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/evolving-sustainability/

One Community Welcomes Landscape Architect Erin Ponte to the Team

One Community is happy to welcome Erin Ponte to our Partners and Consultants Team of world change people. Erin is the owner and Designer at Erin Ponte Landscape Design, a small design studio based in San Diego specializing in landscape planning and design. Erin holds a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Oregon and has worked on several design projects throughout the west coast and Houston, TX. Her broad range of work has provided her with an arsenal of various design styles, techniques, and plant knowledge.... (read more at the link)

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/landscape-architect-erin-ponte/

One Community Complete Curriculum for Life Component of our Open Source Education for Life Program is Now COMPLETE!!

We've completed all sections of the open source and free-shared curriculum component of the Education for Life program! The purpose of the Curriculum for Life component is to clearly outline everything we believe should be part of the human learning experience for any age. This includes all traditional subjects (math, science, reading, etc.), life skills (emotional awareness and responsibility, integrity, healthy relationships, communication skills, etc.), and subjects typically reserved for college (public speaking, business skills, psychology, etc.). Our primary goal is to provide all people, at any age, with a curriculum guide to being leaders, freethinkers, amazing, creative, and world changing people - “ambassadors of the future” - with maximum choices for how to apply themselves in the evolving world.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/curriculum-for-life/

Open Source Vermiculture Toilets and Earthbag Village Community Showers Designs

The earthbag village open source vermiculture toilets and shower 2nd generation design drawings are now posted on this new page: http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/earthbag-village-eco-toilets-and-eco-shower-designs/ ~ http://www.facebook.com/OneCommunityUpdates If you like what we are doing, please help us by sharing this page as we are seeking partners and others to help us complete all these open source designs and your sharing of these pages spreads the word. Liking and/or sharing our funder overview page is additionally helpful: http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/funding-overview-page/ Thank you for all your support!

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/earthbag-village-eco-toilets-and-eco-shower-designs/

Live Interview: Creating Transformational Global Change through Open Source Sustainability

Here's a live interview I did today for the The House of Hidalgo Show. Topics of discussion included what it takes to design an open source sustainable village, what it means to create for The Highest Good of All, One Community’s property and permitting process in process, food infrastructure details, earthbag village details, straw bale village details, creating emotional sustainability, and more.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/live-interview-creating-transformational-global-change-through-open-source-sustainability/

Teaching Knowledge and Wisdom Page Now Complete for the Education for Life Program

One Community wants free education available for everyone so we're creating a complete open source resource as part of our comprehensive sustainability model. It's called the Education for Life Program and we just completed the Knowledge and Wisdom page! Check it out and submit your ideas to help make it better.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/teaching-knowledge-and-wisdom/

One Community Welcomes Renetta (Rene) Aprahamian to the Pioneer Team!

One Community is happy to welcome Renetta (Rene) Aprahamian to the Pioneer Team! Renetta is a Blogger and Website Designer with an AA in Marketing and a Minor in Business. Welcome to the Team Renetta! You can read Renetta's complete bio on her bio page.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/renetta-aprahamian/

Reinventing the Future One Community & One Teacher/Demonstration Village at a Time: One Community Weekly Update #20

We are reinventing the future with One Community. What the One Community team envisions is world of collaboration for The Highest Good of All built from a global cooperative of self-sustainable teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities. These teacher/demonstration hubs will demonstrate people living lives that include more time to do the things they love to do and little or no bills because they are built on ultra-affordable and sustainable infrastructure. The affordability of the lifestyle coupled with an internal culture of working together to create an enhanced and more fulfilling lifestyle are what we see these teacher/demonstration hubs purposed primarily to teach and share. Here's our weekly progress update #20.

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

Communication and World Change

Creating transformational global change has been demonstrated to One Community to be much more than just sustainable infrastructure, it also takes significant organization and administrative structure. This week we've spent a lot of time updating a few of the pages related to what we've learned, who we are looking for as an organization, and how we have evolved this structure as an elite group of world change focused people. Here is our recently updated page about communication both internally as a community and with our global community.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/communication/

The One Community Sitemap - Now a Guided Tour of One Community

One Community has updated our sitemap to function as a tour/walkthrough for our whole site. It also includes all 5 of our overview videos and an alphabetical listing of every page of the website. We are One Community - check us out!

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/site-map/