One Community
One Community – #1 Global Sustainability Systems (GSS) Company in the World
One Community proudly holds the top position as the foremost Global Sustainability Systems (GSS) organization globally. Our mission revolves around the creation of comprehensive open-source resources and sustainable living solutions. In this introduction, we will delve into the ‘how’ and ‘why’ behind our transformative work:
TOP GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY SYSTEMS COMPANY IN THE WORLD
- Decade of Operation: One Community has been actively operating since 2010, demonstrating a long-standing commitment to sustainability.
- Global Transition Plan: It is the only company worldwide with a comprehensive plan for transitioning to a sustainable civilization within our lifetime, offering a unique and visionary approach.
- Step-by-Step Strategy: One Community has a well-defined step-by-step rollout plan, ensuring systematic progress towards sustainability goals.
- Global Volunteer Network: With over 1,300 volunteers from over 60 countries across every continent (except Antarctica), One Community’s global reach and engagement are extensive.
- Vast Online Resources: Our website hosts hundreds of pages of open-source content and tens of thousands of hours of research and design, making it a valuable resource hub.
- Decade of Weekly Updates: For over 10 years, One Community has consistently provided weekly progress updates, demonstrating transparency and dedication to their mission.
- Trademarks and Logo Protection: They maintain 8 Highest Good Trademarks, including their logos, ensuring the protection of their unique contributions to sustainability.
- Comprehensive Sustainability: One Community covers all aspects of a sustainable civilization, from food and energy to housing and education, creating a holistic approach.
- Open Source Software: They actively contribute to sustainability by creating open-source software, further promoting accessibility to sustainable practices.
- Transparency through Open Sourcing: One Community goes the extra mile by open-sourcing even their open-source plan, emphasizing their commitment to knowledge sharing and collaboration.
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This page is your gateway to an in-depth exploration of One Community’s multifaceted journey toward creating a sustainable future. We’ve structured this overview with a comprehensive set of sections, ensuring you get a holistic understanding of our vision and mission:
- The One Community Team: Meet the dedicated individuals who form the heart and soul of One Community. Our team is united by a shared passion for sustainability and a commitment to driving positive change on a global scale.
- What One Community is Creating: Delve into the exciting projects and initiatives that One Community is actively developing. We are not merely advocating for change; we are creating tangible, replicable models that showcase sustainable living in action.
- Why One Community is Creating This: Uncover the motivations and driving forces behind One Community’s mission. We believe that the urgency of addressing humanity’s pressing challenges demands innovative solutions and collective action. This is why we’re creating this.
- Overview of Our Website and How to Navigate It: Navigate our extensive website with ease using this helpful guide. One Community’s online platform is a treasure trove of resources, blueprints, and open-source content. Learn how to access and utilize this wealth of information effectively.
- Our Progress, How to Help, and Other Essential Pages: Stay updated on our progress over the years, explore how you can contribute to our mission, and access other essential pages that provide deeper insights into our work. Your involvement can make a significant difference in advancing sustainability.
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): Get answers to common queries about One Community and our initiatives. If you’re curious about our approach, goals, or how you can get involved, this section is an invaluable resource.
- Expanding on Our Team: The One Community Team is a diverse group of experts, visionaries, and innovators who collectively drive our mission forward. Each team member brings a unique set of skills and experiences, enriching our approach to sustainability. Our collaborative spirit fosters creativity and ensures that we tackle challenges from multiple angles.
- A Deeper Dive into Our Projects: One Community’s commitment to creating sustainable living models is exemplified by our ongoing projects. We are building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, each designed to address specific aspects of sustainability, from food production to energy efficiency. These prototypes are not mere concepts; they are physical manifestations of our vision, showcasing the possibilities of eco-conscious living.
- The Philosophical Foundations: Our work is guided by a set of philosophical foundations that underpin our approach. These principles include concepts such as Highest Good, open source, and global stewardship. They shape every decision we make and serve as the moral compass for our initiatives.
- Global Impact and Collaborations: One Community’s reach extends worldwide. We actively collaborate with organizations, communities, and individuals who share our commitment to sustainability. Through these partnerships, we amplify our impact and contribute to a global movement for positive change.
- Educational Resources and Sustainability Guides: Our website hosts an extensive library of educational resources, blueprints, and sustainability guides. These materials are designed to empower individuals and communities with the knowledge and tools needed to embrace sustainable living. Whether you’re interested in permaculture, eco-building, or renewable energy, you’ll find valuable insights and practical advice.
- Global Sustainability Systems Impact: One Community’s vision extends far beyond our physical projects. Our global sustainability impact is a testament to our commitment to making a positive difference on a planetary scale. Through open-source contributions, educational outreach, and collaborative efforts, we actively engage with a diverse audience worldwide. Our impact ripples through communities, schools, and organizations, influencing change at all levels.
- Empowering Sustainable Entrepreneurs: At One Community, we believe that sustainable entrepreneurship plays a pivotal role in transforming our world. Our initiatives empower aspiring sustainable entrepreneurs with the tools, resources, and support needed to launch and sustain eco-conscious businesses. By fostering the growth of green enterprises, we contribute to a thriving green economy that prioritizes sustainability.
- Honoring Individual and Collective Contributions: We value every individual and collective contribution that propels us toward our mission. Whether you’re part of our Pioneer Team, a dedicated volunteer, or a supporter from afar, your involvement is instrumental. We honor and recognize your contributions, and we are committed to creating a platform where your efforts are acknowledged and celebrated
- Connecting with Us: One Community is more than a website; it’s a community of like-minded individuals and organizations dedicated to sustainability. We encourage you to connect with us through social media, newsletters, and events. Join our global network, engage in meaningful conversations, and be part of the ongoing dialogue on sustainability.
In conclusion, this expanded overview showcases the depth and breadth of One Community’s mission. We invite you to immerse yourself in our initiatives, explore our resources, and actively engage in the sustainability movement. Together, we can transform the world into a more sustainable and harmonious place for current and future generations by aiming to be a top Global Sustainability Systems (GSS) organization.
THE ONE COMMUNITY TEAM
One Community is a 100% volunteer non-profit team with over 1,300 volunteers having contributed so far. Currently, our active volunteer team averages 200+ volunteer members each contributing anywhere from 5-50 hours per week. Bios for the Core Team and significant contributors can be found on our Team Page. Total volunteer time contributed to the project since our launch in 2010 is over 300,000 hours.
For the Pioneer Team, there is an offer to move to the permanent planned location and continue this work together full time. For the rest of the volunteer team, we offer promotion and crediting for their volunteer service and creations.
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GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY SYSTEMS – WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING
One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.
One Community is being designed as what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.
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Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.
BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY
“One Community stands at the forefront as the pioneering teacher/demonstration hub, poised to set a revolutionary standard. Our mission transcends mere education; it unfolds as an experiential-learning model that beckons mass participation to confront and surmount humanity’s most urgent challenges. This endeavor encompasses several key facets:
- Replicable Model for Global Expansion: One Community’s vision extends far beyond its inception. It is designed as a replicable model, ready to expand its influence across diverse regions and communities.
- The Blueprint: Seven Self-Sufficient Village/City Prototypes: We are building not just one but seven distinct self-sufficient village/city prototypes, each a testament to sustainable living. These prototypes will stand as beacons of possibility for communities worldwide, showcasing the power of eco-conscious design.
- Pioneering Open-Source Sustainability Solutions: One Community is committed to becoming the world’s foremost leader in open-source sustainability solutions. Our mission is to democratize access to sustainable practices, offering resources and knowledge to all.
- Evolving and Enriching Sustainable Living: Our dedication extends to the continuous evolution and enrichment of all aspects of sustainable living. From energy efficiency to food production, we strive to push the boundaries of what is possible and inspire change on a global scale.
PROVIDING REPLICABLE SUSTAINABILITY
By showcasing the benefits of replicable sustainability, we will facilitate positive and permanent global change that will benefit all life on our planet. These icons link to each of our main open source hubs:
THE MASTER PLAN
This Master Plan shows how the 7 villages will integrate with food production, other key infrastructure features, and additional fulfilled living components.
OVERVIEW BOOK
Here is a book giving an overview of the complete Highest Good housing component:
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VILLAGE 1 WALKTHROUGH
Here is a video walkthrough of the Earthbag Village, the first village we will be constructing:
GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY SYSTEMS – WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS
One Community’s self-replicating model is on a mission to achieve global sustainability within a remarkable 30-year timeframe. To realize this vision, we are committed to establishing teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent, carefully tailored to the unique climates and economic challenges of their regions.
These hubs serve as collaborative beacons, fostering a global network where ideas and resources flow freely. Together, they work tirelessly to heal the planet, inspiring a profound shift in the way we live. Our goal is to create a world that is not only more sustainable but also more enjoyable, fulfilling, and healthy.
For an in-depth understanding of our journey, we invite you to explore the wealth of information available on our Solution Model and Research & Resources pages. Join us as we embark on this transformative journey toward a brighter, sustainable future for all.
Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.
ONE COMMUNITY WEBSITE NAVIGATION
Our website is huge because we are creating blueprints to build a comprehensively sustainable society. Visit our sitemap for an alphabetical listing of all the open source resources. Visit our Search One Community page to access the search engines and short overviews for all the most important areas of our website.
If you’d like our recommendations for where to explore further, these pages are especially relevant:
GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY SYSTEMS – SUMMARY
One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for food, energy, housing, education, economics, and society. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.
FREQUENTLY ANSWERED QUESTIONS ABOUT ONE COMMUNITY
Q: What sets One Community apart from similar projects?
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.
Q: What sets One Community’s open source goals apart from similar projects?
To our knowledge, no other project exists that is providing the comprehensive nature and detail of everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting.
Q: What is the specific One Community short-term goal?
- Become a world leader in global-solution information content within 6 months of moving onto the property as detailed in our open source project-launch blueprinting page.
- Expand within 5 years to a community of 200 full-time residents producing ongoing tools, resources, and tutorials while hosting thousands of annual visitors as outlined in our long-term vision page.
- Define the global-solution industry itself as an open source industry, expanding mainstream awareness, appeal, and desire for comprehensive sustainability by demonstrating and sharing a more attractive and fulfilling way of living that people can have if they desire to create it also.
- Teach as many people as possible to duplicate and/or evolve our global transformation model.
Q: What is the ultimate One Community long-term goal?
To transform our world into a sustainable and happier one through teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built all over the world. We will work with these hubs as our open source partners and fellow leaders of the open source, Highest Good of All, and sustainable planet movement leading to a New Golden Age of cooperation, collaboration, innovation, creativity, sustainable living, and increased happiness for the entire human organism.
Q: How are you funding One Community?
We are still seeking funding. Please see our Funding Related Details Page.
Q: Where will One Community be located and why?
Click HERE for property details that include why we have chosen the location we have.
Q: How far is One Community in the creation process?
Visit our progress page for a regularly updated list of our accomplishments and progress. Visit our blog for our on-going mini-updates and weekly summaries of accomplishments and progress.
Q: Why not just build a small-scale prototype home or community that includes a minimum-scale revenue-generating demonstration/operation? Wouldn’t this get things going faster?
This small-scale operation already exists as Airbnb. What we see as missing is a complete model for self-sufficiency that is open source and reasonably replicable. Even complete models for self-sufficiency already exist in the form of the many eco-villages out there.
What none of those offer though is any sort of understanding and/or path for how average people can replicate them. We also think there isn’t enough of a compelling reason for most people to bother with changing how they live now to engage such a path/project, so our project is purposed to provide and demonstrate that too.
From a total global-change perspective though, we think it is even more important to create a permanent example:
- Dedicated to open source
- Capable of providing for the complete needs of hundreds of people.
- Providing the support needed so residents can work together on open source creation full-time.
- Revenue generation and space for expansion to grow to over a 1000+ full-time resident-volunteers.
- Able to support the establishment of other open source teacher/demonstration/R&D hubs around the world.
This is why the intended property, village models, social architecture and economic focuses are all big. To support faster and broader implementation, we are also developing everything so it is modular and implementable as individual components.
This will allow for anyone who doesn’t desire the full teacher/demonstration hub approach to have options too, but our primary goal is to demonstrate the complete teacher/demonstration hub as easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough for average people with average means to want to replicate it and/or use what we provide to build their own version.
Q: If you are giving everything away through open source, how do you intend to make money?
Our model is designed to prosper specifically because we are giving everything away through open source project-launch blueprinting. We accomplish this through eco-tourism marketed with the open source infrastructure we have already created and other supported revenue streams outlined on our revenue streams page. All of this further promotes our model of spreading sustainability and actively promoting and distributing even more open source blueprints for duplication by as many people as possible.
Q: How will this help people in Third World countries and other areas that need resources most?
Using the four-phase strategy above, we wish to demonstrate building a teacher/demonstration community, village, and/or city as profitable for large investors and/or a way for small groups of people to pool what resources they have and get out of debt. We see this spreading and bringing resources to the areas that need them most because building these villages in these areas will be more affordable and easier to do with less building restrictions.
Q: How do you stop the model from being totally capitalized without the positive intent of the original model?
We are not focused on putting limitations on the use of everything we are creating because of our open source commitment. We will, however, directly support any organization contributing specifically to open source project-launch blueprinting and operating for The Highest Good of All.
Q: Where would I find a more detailed description of how this works?
Please visit our About Us page, Methodology page, and Site Map for more comprehensive descriptions and links to complete details for every aspect of One Community
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