How Can You Change the World: One Community Progress Update for the Week of May 20th, 2013

Here's the One Community weekly update and progress report (XIII) with complete images, links, etc. from last week's forward movement towards a sustainable and open source world for all: http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/how-can-you-change-the-world/

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/how-can-you-change-the-world/

Contribution, Global Perspectives, & Social Science as Elements of Educational Curriculum for Life

This page is a globally collaborative open source and free-shared list of contribution, global perspectives, and social science curriculum topics divided into 3 categories: "Contribution," "Global Perspectives and History," and "Current Events and Social Science." If you have an idea or section that you believe should be included here, please send it to us using our Suggestions Page. We will also be developing a lesson plan page for each of these items as part of the Lesson Plans for Life component.

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/teaching-contribution-global-perspectives-and-social-science/

Education For Life Collaborative Input Page is Now "Live"

Our collaboration and suggestions page is now "live" for anyone who would like to contribute to our free-shared and open source Education for Life program that is purposed to transform education as we know it - globally: http://www.onecommunityranch.org/education-for-life-collaborative-input/

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/education-for-life-collaborative-input/

New Page: Families with Children at One Community

This week we will start posting and sharing some of the results of months of work on the One Community open source and free-shared Education For Life program designed for all ages. As part of this we have created specific application additional application guidelines and requests for parents and their children who may wish to be a part of the pilot program as it evolves and develops on the property.

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/families-with-children-at-one-community/

The Importance of Financial Stability for One Community Pioneers and Our Global Goals

While it doesn’t cost anything to join or be a part of the One Community Pioneer Team, individual financial stability is important to our global goals and our desire to form a team thinking, creating, and living for The Highest Good of All. Our entire model is designed around building One Community as an open source prototype for self-sufficient teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that create abundance, self-sufficiency, and frees people from the financial scarcity that we feel limits humanity’s inherent desire to want to help each other. This new page details the importance of individual financial stability in relation to these goals.

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/the-importance-of-financial-stability-for-one-community-pioneers/

One Community: Compensating Our Partners

This page is our compensation and benefits page for partners, consultants, and Pioneers outlining One Community's win-win-win-win philosophy prioritized as planet, people, industry, and One Community for The Highest Good of All and the creation of self-sufficient and self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities all over the world.

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/win-win-win-win/

One Community Featured on The Bridge with Jim Hamell to Discuss Open Source Sustainability

Jae Sabol, the Executive Director of the One Community Non-profit Organization, was interviewed by Jim Hamell for The Bridge last week to discuss open source sustainability and One Community's part in the global open source and free-sharing movement. Topics of discussion included some of the things we are working on right now, converting the whole planet over to a collaboration of sustainable and open source communities, villages, and cities working together, solution based thinking and how it relates to both evolution and the scientific method, and how open source transcends political ideology.

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/open-source-sustainability-interview-with-jae-on-the-bridge/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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-rain