One Community
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One Community is the #1 GSS (Global-Sustainability Systems) organization in the world. We are creating open source resources and solutions for all aspects of sustainable living. Here’s how and why:
This page includes the following sections:
- The One Community Team
- What One Community is Creating: Open Source Sustainability Solutions
- Why One Community is Creating This
- Overview of Our Website and How to Navigate It
- Our Progress, How to Help, and Other Essential Pages
- Summary
- FAQ
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THE ONE COMMUNITY TEAM
One Community is a 100% volunteer non-profit organization with over 2,000 volunteers from more than 60 countries who have contributed to creating our open source sustainability solutions. We maintain an active volunteer team averaging between 100-200 members, each contributing between 5 and 50 hours every week toward building One Community’s open source projects. Bios for the Core Team and significant contributors can be found on our Team Page, where you can learn more about the people behind One Community. Since launching in 2010, volunteers have contributed more than 300,000 hours to help develop One Community’s open source sustainability initiatives.
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.
Click Here if You’d Like to Join Our Team
WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING
One Community is creating an open source sustainable living model where people can grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps people live in integrity with one another and the planet while striving to become the best 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 a sustainable community model that we believe is one of the healthiest, most collaborative, and most enjoyable environments we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable sustainable community will serve as an example of what is possible through open source sustainability solutions.
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Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and freely 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. These open source sustainability solutions are designed for use as individual components or complete community developments. 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 will become the first teacher/demonstration hub showcasing how open source sustainability solutions can be implemented in the real world. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through:
- A replicable model for expansion
- Building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes
- Becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions
- Evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living
PROVIDING REPLICABLE SUSTAINABILITY
By showcasing the benefits of replicable sustainability, One Community aims to facilitate positive and permanent global change that will benefit all life on our planet. These icons link to each of our primary open source sustainability hubs, where you can explore our resources in greater detail.
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 to create a replicable sustainable community model.
One Community Master Plan – Click for the Highest Good Housing page with a click-to-enlarge version
OVERVIEW BOOK
Here is a book giving an overview of the complete Highest Good Housing component and its role within the One Community model:
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VILLAGE 1 WALKTHROUGH
Here is a video walkthrough of the Earthbag Village, the first village planned for construction and an important part of One Community’s sustainable living model:
WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS
The One Community self-replicating model is designed to help create a more sustainable planet within 30 years by making open source sustainability solutions accessible to everyone. We aim to achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent that can be replicated and adapted to local needs. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options suitable for communities with limited financial resources, increasing the accessibility of the One Community model. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet.
They will also help demonstrate a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable way of living that others can learn from and replicate. The specifics of how we are accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive, where we share evidence and educational resources related to sustainable living.
Click for Additional Details on the Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page
Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, this self-replicating teacher/demonstration model has the potential to positively affect millions of people while inspiring millions more to create sustainable communities. 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.
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ONE COMMUNITY WEBSITE NAVIGATION
Our website is extensive because we are creating open source blueprints to help build a comprehensively sustainable society. Visit our sitemap for an alphabetical listing of all our open source sustainability resources. Visit our Search One Community page to quickly access important topics, search tools, and short overviews of the most important sections of our website.
If you’re new to One Community, we recommend exploring the following pages to better understand our mission, projects, and open source sustainability solutions:
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 western 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.
Q: What about safety?
We consider a community of 500 people with shared goals and vision more safe than current living models. We think even a group of 50 people working together can handle any reasonable challenge.
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