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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

Thrive: A Wake Up Call

Posted by One Community on November 15, 2011 · 4 Comments

Thrive is a newly released, visual stunning transformational movie about the state of affairs on our planet and some suggestions for solutions and new ways of thinking about the way that we live our lives. The movie is written and produced by Foster and his wife, Kimberly, Gamble. Foster is the great-great-grandson of James Gamble, […]

Category: Community, One Community · Tags: free energy, one community, sacred geometry, Thrive Movie

Solutions for Desertification: Afforestation/Anti-Desertification Video

Posted by One Community on November 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment

In many parts of the world, land once ripe for farming is turning into desert and losing life due to the process of desertification; this is the case in the Niger Republic of Africa. Land desertification is causing a great problem for the farmers and villagers who have families and mouths to feed. As this […]

Category: Community, One Community · Tags: Africa, people, solution based thinking

Compressed Air Powered Car

Posted by One Community on October 23, 2011 · 1 Comment

In Europe two inventors have made a simple air engine, thus opening a new field for compressed air car technology. These engines allow cars to run on compressed air instead of fuel. The air, super compressed and powerful, pumps the pistons in the car instead of small gas explosions. Pumping air instead of exploding gasoline […]

Category: Community, One Community · Tags: alternative energy, sustainability

(R)Evolution of the American Dream

Posted by One Community on October 21, 2011 · 5 Comments

The growth of the Occupy Wall Street movement has given us an excellent opportunity to stop and think about where we are, and where we are going. A common statement right now is “end economic slavery” and yet it seems odd to expect the very people who created this situation, and continue to profit from […]

Category: Community, One Community, Uncategorized · Tags: alternative energy, American Dream, eco-architecture, eco-construction, forward thinking, Freedom, Liberty, Margaret Mead, one community, people, social architecture, solution based thinking, sustainability, SUSTAINABLE, sustainable construction, sustainable food

Rocket Mass Heaters

Posted by One Community on September 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment

A rocket mass heater (also known as a rocket stove mass heater) is an innovative and efficient space heating system. Developed by combining the technology of a rocket wood stove and a masonry heater, the rocket mass heater uses a ‘J shaped’ combustion chamber and heat exchange that then feeds the hot gases along a horizontal metal ducting embedded within a massive cob thermal store […]

Category: One Community · Tags: alternative energy, Paul Wheaton, rocket mass heater, rocketmass heater, sustainability, sustainable heat

Energetic vs Monetary Exchange

Posted by One Community on July 13, 2011 · 2 Comments

This was figured out by one of our Community Pioneers. “1. If one person contributes 40 hours per week for 50 weeks a year and we were to “pay” them $20/hour, that’s a $40,000 salary. Multiply that by 40 people and we’ve got a workforce worth $1,600,000. That’s $1,600,000 that we don’t have to pay […]

Category: Community, One Community · Tags: people

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