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The Atlantis King: Word Music

Posted by One Community on February 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment

We just had to do a blog post on Atlantis King because he is way too entertaining to pass up. When watching this we thought subtitles would really have been nice, so we took some notes and here are the highlights. While you may or may not enjoy his presentation style, we invite you to […]

Category: Community, One Community · Tags: forward thinking, Liberty, music, people

Permaculture Principles at Work

Posted by One Community on February 10, 2012 · 2 Comments

Permaculture is a design science based on 3 simple ethics: care for the earth, care for people, and share the surplus. Erik Ohlsen from Permaculture Artisans teaches how to permaculture classes through Earth Activist Training (EAT). The goal of permaculture is to create sustainable systems that provide for human needs while regenerating the land around […]

Category: Community, One Community · Tags: garden, people, permaculture

Bjarke Ingels: Sustainable Architecture Evolution

Posted by One Community on February 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Bjarke Ingels is founder of the Danish sustainable architect group BIG out of Copenhagen. His creations are not typical 2 dimensional architect designs but rather futuristic designs like something found in Hollywood. In fact, Hollywood has even copied his designs, something Bjarke considers a compliment. Bjarke’s construction integrates ecosystems that channel heat, energy, water and waste […]

Category: Community, One Community · Tags: alternative energy, people, sustainability, sustainable building

Life in a Day the Film

Posted by One Community on January 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Life in a Day is a gift; a once in a lifetime opportunity to see life from hundreds of different perspectives across the globe. Life in a Day shows the daily life of people from 192 countries as they wake up and live their lives on one day, July 24, 2010. For the first time […]

Category: Community, One Community · Tags: Freedom, life in a day, movie review, people, social architecture

Permaculture: Saving Humanity and the Earth

Posted by One Community on January 28, 2012 · 1 Comment

Toby Hemenway is a teacher, consultant and lecturer on permaculture and ecological design. Toby is also a professor at Portland State University, a Scholar-in-Residence at Pacific University, and a biologist consultant for the Biomimicry Guild. In this lecture Toby explains how Agriculture has not actually helped mankind but instead has hindered our progress as well […]

Category: Community, One Community · Tags: agriculture, ecological, permaculture

Barefoot College: Solar Technology to the Poor

Posted by One Community on January 20, 2012 · 2 Comments

Bunker Roy grew up in Inda with the most expensive elitist education. After graduating in 1965 he told his mother he wanted to go work with the poor and see what a village was like. This disapointed her and she felt he had let the family down. He decided to open a college for the […]

Category: Community, One Community · Tags: Africa, people

Urban Permaculture for Communities: Re-patterning the Grid

Posted by One Community on January 18, 2012 · 1 Comment

Visionary and eco-architect Mark Lakeman is founder of City Repair, Communitecture Architects, and the Planet Repair Institute. Mark goes against the traditional architecture teachings that humanity and nature are separate. Instead he brings these two concepts together, expressing them in beautiful artform. Modeling the plazas of Mexico and South America, Mark is teaching people the foundations of community […]

Category: Community, One Community · Tags: eco-architecture, Mark Lakeman, permaculture, Urban Permaculture

Earthship Biotechture: The Food Producing Sustainable Home

Posted by One Community on January 14, 2012 · 2 Comments

Earthship biotecture was first created by Michael Reynolds from Taos, New Mexico in the 1970’s. This new model of green infrastructure uses recycled tires that are beat full of earth to create thick, solid walls for your home instead of wasting away in landfills. Rainwater is captured for all household use. Water from the sinks […]

Category: Community, One Community · Tags: earthship, garden, Michael Reynolds, New Mexico, solar panels

A Subversive Plot: How to Grow a Revolution in Your Own Backyard – by Roger Doiron

Posted by One Community on January 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment

How to grow a revolution in your own backyard? Grow your own food. Join a fast growing number of Americans who are taking back control over their food and what they do with their yards. Transform your unproductive, chore-creating yard into a productive, food-creating yard. You’ll be amazed by what follows. Transforming your yard might […]

Category: Community, One Community · Tags: Backyard Gardening, gardening, sustainable food

Sustainable Building: Straw-bale Eco-Architecture

Posted by One Community on December 10, 2011 · 2 Comments

Featured on Planet Green and “The World’s Greenest Homes” TV show, Kevin Edwards’ 3000 square foot straw-bale constructed home is beautiful, green, more affordable than traditionally built homes, and packed with amazing eco-features. Located in Scottsdale, AZ, this modern straw-bale house includes a saltwater swimming pool, recycled windows, ceiling accents made from recycling the delivery […]

Category: Community, One Community · Tags: eco-architecture, economical, green living, self-sustainability, straw-bale homes, sustainable building, sustainable construction

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