World-changing People - One Community Weekly Progress Update #34

Here is One Community's weekly progress update (#34). We're world-changing people creating positive and permanent global transformation for everyone. This update includes picture updates, a detailed video weekly review, a timestamped overview of the video, and complete links for everything we've progressed on and accomplished in the past week.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/world-changing-people/

Open Source Duplicable City Hub - Portal Redesigned and Updated

One Community is designing an open source duplicable city center to save resources and help model a redefinition of how people choose to live. The SEGO Center Duplicable City Hub will function as a recreation center, large-scale dining hall, large-scale laundry facility, and alternative for visitors that might not (at first) be comfortable staying in the earthbag or straw bale hand-constructed homes. As part of One Community’s duplicable teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities model, this one building will function as a revenue stream and communal-use and resource-saving replacement of individual kitchens, laundry rooms, and living rooms for all residents of One Community.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/sego-center/

One Community Partners with ThePOOSH.org

ThePOOSH.org is a unique hospitality site designed for virtually anyone, anywhere in the world, wishing to participate in or start their own sustainable self-build project. A growing community of people who desire to learn about and build more sustainable structures on this planet, it is a place to find resources about sustainable building and projects all around the world seeking assistance. For project organizers, ThePOOSH.org is a way to find like-minded people with enthusiasm, knowledge, and skill. For people interested in participating, volunteering, and learning about sustainable building and living, it is an opportunity to go learn sustainable building skills at a project and become part of a community, a community that is constructive and building the movement.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/team/#thepoosh

New Sustainable Building and Materials Partner

Eric Puro – Sustainable Builder and Sustainable Materials Consultant: Eric has 3 years of experience as a sustainable builder committed to do whatever it takes to help people transition into a more sustainable life. Inspired by nature each day, Eric seeks to find more ways to incorporate nature into people’s everyday lives. He has built an earthship in Oregon, taught cob classes over England and Portugal, built one of the most sustainable structures in Europe in Portugal (which included rammed earth walls, a thatched roof, an earthen floor, and pine tar coated rope), built low-impact indigenous style structures in the UK, and a rocket mass heater in London. Besides building, Eric is also the co-founder of ThePOOSH.org, a website that connects people who desire to learn about and build sustainable structures with projects seeking their help. Eric´s contribution to the One Community project is to provide fully sustainable building research and advanced eco-development consulting for all

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/team/#eric-puro

Hoop House Open Source Hub is Complete

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/

Results of 30 Hours of Researching Water Saving Shower Heads

A shower is an important part of almost every person’s day, so we spent over 30 hours researching water-saving shower heads. Reviews, however, are always mixed and we see the One Community environment as arguably the best place possible for reviewing products like this because the environment is so collaborative and eco-focused. For this reason, we will be testing and open source sharing our experience with all the above shower heads that our research identified were the best of the best. We will evolve this page with those details and use what we learn in our purchasing decisions as we build the 7 sustainable village models.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/water-saving-shower-heads/

One Community Welcomes Beekeeper Kim Braman to the Team!

One Community welcomes Kim Braman to the Consultant and Partners Team! Kim is a 5th-generation beekeeper with an emphasis on queen rearing. She has jointed the team as an invaluable resource for our beekeeping and apiary plans.

http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/team/#kim-braman